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Hello! It’s just another day at Nottingham Forest. But Manchester United have got their man.
Coming up:
- Forest owner’s court battle
- United’s Amorim agreement
- Abominable Ronaldo penalty
- Women’s game gets richer
Nottingham Forest do play football. This season, they’re playing it rather well, like a squad who have figured the Premier League out.
But in the manner of certain clubs — and I saw this at Leeds United — there’s a tendency for Forest’s off-field matters to hog the attention. In the past few weeks alone, they’ve received one disciplinary fine of £750,000 ($972,000) and another of £125,000. The latter is being appealed.
Their owner, Evangelos Marinakis, meanwhile, is serving a five-game stadium ban after being cited for spitting at match officials after Forest’s only Premier League defeat of the season to date, an offence he denied. And now it emerges, in documents filed with a U.S. court, that the colourful Marinakis is at the centre of a colourful libel case in London’s High Court – the details of which read like a movie script.
A mere seven days ago, Forest head coach Nuno Espirito Santo talked about his players…
