He didn’t get demoted. All referees have to ref a certain number of EFL games per season. He did one that week as part of his normal rotation.

Honestly, some people really will just believe anything they see on Twitter, without any modicum of fact checking.

After Brentford beat them 4-0, he made his team run 13kg the very next day. This is apparently very normal for him - he’s an authoritarian, who essentially tries to run his teams like an army squadron.

Now they’re suffering injury crisis after injury crisis. He can’t build a style of play, because his star players are always injured. It’s fairly clear at this point that he doesn’t know how to discipline a team without putting them through high risk, torturous drills that do nothing but risk injury and damage the morale of the players.

Ultimately, he’s the problem.