The 59-year-old has used the League Managers Association (LMA) to ask its members what they think about the performance of match officials. Clough has often spoken out about refereeing decisions after matches, and was most recently critical of a fourth official at Mansfield Town's Carabao Cup defeat at Everton for being "sarcastic" towards him. But the Stags boss insists his desire to talk about calls made during matches and his efforts to now start a conversation about standards is not targeted at match officials themselves.
"It wasn't controversial, it was wrong," Webb said on the Premier League's VAR show, Match Officials Mic'd Up. "We've established some principles in terms of how we officiate in the Premier League and how we use VAR. They sit around a high threshold for penalising contact -- it aids the flow and rhythm and tempo of the game."