Paul Tierney lands VAR role but PGMOL denies it is punishment for referee | Referees
Paul Tierney is not going to referee a Premier League sport this weekend however might be on VAR obligation for Arsenal v Brentford. Skilled Sport Match Officers Restricted, the referees’ physique, insists the appointment is just not a punishment for his error within the buildup to Liverpool’s 99th-minute winner at Nottingham Forest final Saturday. Tierney, a top-flight referee since 2015, has refereed 22 Premier League matches this season and has operated as VAR on 23 events. He was VAR 4 instances final month, most lately on 17 February for Burnley’s sport at dwelling to Arsenal. Forest have been left so incensed by Tierney’s failure to apply the laws accurately within the 97th minute, one minute and 50 seconds earlier than Darwin Núñez’s headed winner, that their proprietor, Evangelos Marinakis, confronted the referee within the gamers’ tunnel minutes after the ultimate whistle. Forest’s first-team coach, Steven Reid, was despatched off for venting anger at Tierney because the referee headed down the tunnel. Within the aftermath of the aim, a supporter who ran on to the pitch from the Brian Clough Stand was restrained by the Forest defender Murillo after he made a beeline for Tierney. Tierney…