Not for the first time in a season which has seen Nottingham Forest behave with an utter lack of class over officiating, the words and example of Brian Clough might be worth consideration.
‘I don’t take it on board to criticise referees,’ Clough said in defeat one night. ‘I never have. I never will. What they do, they do. What they do, we accept and we take the consequences.’
His beloved club were not served well on Sunday by the operatives at Stockley Park who decided Everton’s Ashley Young had not handled, in the face of video evidence to the contrary, or that he had not committed two fouls in the penalty area that could very well have been penalties.