RED LETTER DAY

Boly wants farce to force change

- GRAHAM THOMAS

WILLY BOLY has demanded justice over the sending-off which has denied him a Boxing Day date at Newcastle.

The Nottingham Forest defender was dismissed by referee Rob Jones for a second yellow card in their 3-2 defeat against Bournemouth, even though replays proved it was the Cherries' Adam Smith who caught Boly late.

As the current rules don't allow VAR officials to review yellow card decisions, Boly has to serve an automatic suspension.

"I said to the ref, 'Why can't you ask VAR? You have made a mistake! But he just said the rules are the rules and there's nothing he can do," said the big defender.