Nottingham Forest charged by FA as Mark Clattenburg leaves club
Nottingham Forest and manager Nuno Espirito Santo are charged with misconduct by the FA as Mark Clattenburg leaves the club.
www.bbc.co.uk
Decided to avoid the obvious puns in the title. However the standout comment for me is this;
“It has also led to the unmerited targeting of me, personally, by certain participants and pundits," he said”
There’s a real case of making a rod for his own back here. Abuse is wrong, but he painted a target on his back and through serious errors of judgement he’s been hammered. I’m not sympathetic regardless of his intentions when taking on the role.
Any integrity he had was lost when failing to quit following or condemn the social media outburst and then doubling down with his newspaper article. That had the hallmarks of taking a shot at PGMOL for stopping his World Cup participation in 2018.