Jürgen Klopp’s lengthy bear hug with Darwin Núñez on halfway at full time underlined the magnitude of a seemingly priceless and potentially pivotal moment in the Premier League title race, but it was far from the only lasting image. And certainly not from a Nottingham Forest perspective. In the immediate aftermath, there was a wild tableau in full view.
Evangelos Marinakis, the Forest owner who was pitchside at full-time, followed the referee, Paul Tierney, down the tunnel, airing his anger and expressing bewilderment at more decisions going against them. Mark Clattenburg, recently hired by Forest on a consultancy basis as a referees’ analyst, explained why the club felt so wronged after being denied entry to the officials’ dressing room. By that point, Steven Reid, the Forest first-team coach, had already been sent off for labouring the point.
