Official at centre of Forest-Liverpool dropped ball controversy won't ref next weekend

Sources close to PGMOL insist Tierney has not been dropped.

Referee Paul Tierney is surrouned by Nottingham Forest players and staff following the Premier League match at The City Ground, Nottingham. Picture: Mike Egerton/PA Wire. 

Paul Tierney, who was at the centre of a dropped ball controversy in the Nottingham Forest v Liverpool match last Saturday, will not referee a Premier League match this weekend.

Tierney faced criticism after he failed to award a dropped ball to Forest in an attacking area after stopping the match for a head injury to Liverpool defender Ibrahima Konate.