Gary Neville ban forces Sky Sports to ditch plans leaving viewers with the same question

Sky Sports were forced to present coverage of against from their studio in London rather than at the City Ground. The move comes after Sky pundit was controversially .

Neville, 50, had following their last home game, a dramatic 2-2 draw with . Marinakis had to remonstrate with manager regarding their coaching and medical staff's treatment of Taiwo Awoniyi, who'd suffered a late injury.

Neville subsequently posted on X: "Scandalous from that Forest owner. Nuno should go and negotiate his exit tonight with him! The Forest fans, players and manager do not deserve that."

In response, Forest denied the former captain accreditation for their final-day clash with Chelsea. Sky still sent a commentary team and reporter Patrick Davison to the City Ground, but their show was broadcast from their London studio.

and joined presenter David Jones, leaving viewers with the same question. "Why aren't Sky Sports at Anfield for the trophy lift? In the studio instead very bizarre," one fan posted on X.

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Another wrote: "Not sure why the sky team are in the studio and not at Anfield for the presentation. Doesn't seem right on the final day."

Neville confirmed on Friday that he'd withdrawn from Sky's coverage of the match on the final day of the season. In the wake of his post about Marinakis, Forest released a statement slamming 'fake news online' and warned against 'baseless and ill-informed outrage for the purposes of personal social media traction'.

After he was banned, Neville wrote on : "I was contacted by earlier on in the week and told that I would be commentating at the City Ground on Sunday for the Nottingham Forest v Chelsea match.

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"I was informed yesterday by Sky Sports that Nottingham Forest would not give me an accreditation or access to the stadium as a co-commentator. I've had no choice but to withdraw from the coverage.

"I've dished out my fair share of criticism and praise in the last 14 years of doing this job and have never come close to this unprecedented action. Personally, I think it's disappointing that a great club like Nottingham Forest have been reduced to making such a decision.

"Whilst they have every right to choose who they let into their own stadium, it's symptomatic of things that have happened over the last 12 months with the club. I wish the coaching staff, players and fans of the club all the best in their quest to achieve football."

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