Michael Owen

MATT HUGHES:Referees' chief Howard Webb will hold peace talks with Nottingham Forest's owners this week at which the VAR audio of their three penalty appeals in Sunday's controversial defeat at Everton will be played to the club.  Forest requested access to referee Anthony Taylor's conversations with VAR Stuart Atwell earlier this week after criticising the latter's appointment for the game at Goodison Park on the grounds that he is a "Luton fan," with refereeing body PGMOL happy to oblige. PGMOL's protocol is to make VAR audio available to any club that requests it, with Webb understood to be planning to play the recordings to Forest in an online meeting this week before their next game against Manchester City on Sunday. 

EXCLUSIVE BY MATT HUGHES: Nottingham Forest will be sent recordings of conversations between referee Anthony Taylor and VAR Stuart Attwell from their defeat by Everton by PGMOL over the next few days, and the audio could be broadcast publicly when the next Referees Mic'd Up programme airs next week.  Mail Sport has learned that one of Forest's three penalty appeals which were not referred to VAR by Taylor is likely to feature in next week's show, in which PGMOL chief Howard Webb and Michael Owen analyse recent refereeing decisions in the Premier League. Forest demanded that audio recordings of the three incidents be made public in a series of extraordinary statements released on Monday, which could see the club, manager Nuno Espirito Santos, defender Neco Williams and refereeing consultant Mark Clattenburg all charged by the FA. 

KIERAN GILL: Time spent getting to know the thunderbolt of Tottenham revealed a rise equally as rapid, though Micky van de Ven's sprint to stardom was not without the odd stumble, a particularly painful one arriving at 16 years old when told he lacked the speed to succeed. It is a ludicrous tale - how a club in the Dutch second division came so close to discarding the defender now testing the shutter speeds of photographers' cameras at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Today, he holds the Premier League record as its fastest-ever player, previously clocked at 23.23mph. Back then, he supposedly smuggled lead in his socks, a story which Van de Ven's father, Marcel, related to Mail Sport this week. 'When the Volendam trainer said, "You're not fast enough and not good enough", I understood that a kid who's 16 might think, "That's it. I'm done. I have to go",' Marcel said, speaking from his native Netherlands. 'But I told him, "This is the best message they are ever going to give you. You know you can play, so play. If you think they are going to send you away, just play. And if they send you away, I will bring you to the club where you can play with your friends. But for now, go on. Do what you like. Do what you love. Do what you want. Live your dream".