Gary Neville has confirmed he won't be at Nottingham Forest's Premier League clash with Manchester City on Sunday amid the club's anger with Sky Sports.
Forest caused controversy following last weekend's 2-0 defeat to Everton by questioning the integrity of VAR official Stuart Atwell, a Luton Town fan, in a strongly-worded message on X.
The club had three penalty appeals rejected and vowed to 'consider its options'.
Neville called it a 'mafia-like statement', which resulted in Forest considering legal action against Sky.
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The former Manchester United defender has addressed the saga for the first time on this week's edition of Stick To Football, brought to you by Sky Bet.
A Forest fan sent a question in, which reads: "I'm just asking whether you're at the Nottingham Forest and Man City game. I'm asking for 27,000 friends."
Neville confirmed he will not be at the City Ground. He'll instead be at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for Spurs' huge clash with bitter rivals Arsenal
He joked: "I rang Sky up and said I need the north London derby on Sunday! No, I am at the north London derby, by the way."
Forest's appointment of former referee Mark Clattenburg in a referring consultant role drew criticism from Neville, who called for Clattenburg's resignation.
He's doubled down on those comments, claiming Clattenburg is becoming a 'hinderance' as Nuno Espirito Santo's side battles for Premier League survival.
Neville continued: "You've got Clattenburg almost like a Navy Seal in the director's box crawling along to the CEO (whispering).
"The reason I asked him to resign was because if he saw that Luton tweet that went out, he has to distance himself from it or he's part of it. If he's part of that, I'm like "wow".
"The second part of it is it's football, right. If you're the leader of that football club, since Mark Clattenburg came in, in the last 10 games they've won one match. In the 10 games before, they won four.
"You never give football players or employees a get-out excuse ever. He's given them an excuse to not win. Now that might sound crazy, but when you put that negativity in, Neco Williams, he's probably a really good player, he's coming out on Sunday and he's talking about referees."
"They're all consumed about referees, and they've given themselves an excuse, everyone's against us. It's not working for them this strategy of how it's going.
"What they need to do is switch their mentality completely and forget about referees.
"Get Clattenburg out the director's box so the camera stops going on him and concentrate on football, because they're going to go down if they're not careful."
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Topics: Gary Neville, Everton, Nottingham Forest, Premier League
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