Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis says he did not deliberately spit on the floor as match officials walked past.
Evangelos Marinakis has been hit with a five-match ban Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis says he did not deliberately spit on the floor as match officials walked past, but was simply coughing as a result of his ciagar habit. Marinakis has been handed a five-match stadium ban after being found guilty of improper conduct over the incident at the City Ground on 28 September.
His defence presented to the independent panel stated that he was ‘suffering from a hacking cough on the day of the fixture’ and ‘felt a cough coming and thus coughed on the floor’. Marinakis smokes ‘two or three cigars a day’ and ‘often needs to expectorate and/or coughs,’ accepting ‘that phlegm or spittle may have been produced, this was as a result of coughing’ but if there was any ‘it certainly was not aimed at thereferee’s feet and did not hit anybody’.
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