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Evangelos Marinakis: Nottingham Forest owner suing Crystal Palace for defamation after banner at Selhurst Park | Football News
11 August 2026 Off

Evangelos Marinakis: Nottingham Forest owner suing Crystal Palace for defamation after banner at Selhurst Park | Football News

By Total Football News

Evangelos Marinakis is suing Crystal Palace for defamation, after a banner was unfurled at Selhurst Park last season showing the Nottingham Forest owner holding a gun to the head of Morgan Gibbs-White.

The flag was displayed last August, shortly after Gibbs-White’s failed move to Tottenham, which resulted in him instead signing a contract extension at the City Ground.

The banner also made lurid and unsubstantiated references to the Greek billionaire’s

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Crystal Palace charged by FA after fans’ Evangelos Marinakis gun banner
8 November 2025 Off

Crystal Palace charged by FA after fans’ Evangelos Marinakis gun banner

By Total Football News

The Football Association has charged Crystal Palace with misconduct after supporters held a banner depicting Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis holding a gun to midfielder Morgan Gibbs-White’s head.

The banner, unfurled during the 1-1 Premier League draw at Selhurst Park in August, read: “Mr Marinakis is not involved in blackmail, match-fixing, drug trafficking or corruption.”

Marinakis has consistently denied any wrongdoing in relation to such allegations.

The FA has charged

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Who is Evangelos Marinakis: Controversial Nottingham Forest owner, shipping & media baron
12 May 2025 Off

Who is Evangelos Marinakis: Controversial Nottingham Forest owner, shipping & media baron

By Total Football News

Marinakis is the founder and chairman of Capital Maritime & Trading Corp, an international shipping company, and was voted Greek Shipping Personality of the Year by British publication Lloyd’s List in 2017.

He has also invested in the media and his company, Alter Ego Media, bought two of Greece’s best known daily newspapers – Ta Nea and To Vima.

In 2019, he launched a new television channel, One Channel, in

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Nottingham Forest: Evangelos Marinakis dilutes control of club to meet Uefa rules
30 April 2025 Off

Nottingham Forest: Evangelos Marinakis dilutes control of club to meet Uefa rules

By Total Football News

However, a Forest source confirmed to the BBC that Marinakis remains the club’s owner and is still committed to the club.

The development is among a number of changes filed with Companies House in light of Uefa’s rules.

Sources have confirmed the move is designed to ensure the ownership model is positioned to ensure Forest comply with Uefa’s rules.

The alterations in ownership structure had to be completed by the

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Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis has ‘no regrets’ in VAR fight
5 December 2024 Off

Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis has ‘no regrets’ in VAR fight

By Total Football News

Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis says he has “no regrets” over his actions after calling out “big mistakes” made by the video assistant referee (VAR).

Marinakis was handed a five-game stadium ban in October for spitting on the floor as match officials walked past in the tunnel following Forest’s 1-0 Premier League defeat by Fulham at the City Ground on 28 September.

“We have seen things that are unbelievable and

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Nottingham Forest: Owner Evangelos Marinakis loses five-game stadium ban appeal
4 November 2024 Off

Nottingham Forest: Owner Evangelos Marinakis loses five-game stadium ban appeal

By Total Football News

Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis has lost his appeal against a five-game stadium ban.

The 57-year-old was found guilty of improper conduct for spitting on the floor as the match officials walked past following Forest’s 1-0 Premier League defeat by Fulham at the City Ground on 28 September.

In publishing its written reasons behind the decision, the commission said there was “no excuse” for such an “an egregious display of

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Evangelos Marinakis: Nottingham Forest owner given stadium ban for spitting towards officials
22 October 2024 Off

Evangelos Marinakis: Nottingham Forest owner given stadium ban for spitting towards officials

By Total Football News

The commission read reports from referee Robert Jones and fourth official Anthony Taylor, who said Nuno and Gibbs-White swore at them following the midfielder’s red card.

Nuno was also said to have “gesticulated aggressively” at Jones.

However, the statements added that Nuno apologised to the officials after the game. Both men wrote letters of apology to the commission and gave oral submissions.

The commission believed Gibbs-White’s remorse and assertion that

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Nottingham Forest: Evangelos Marinakis: wants 50,000-seat City Ground
20 September 2024 Off

Nottingham Forest: Evangelos Marinakis: wants 50,000-seat City Ground

By Total Football News

Nottingham Forest are hoping to one day turn the City Ground into a 50,000-seat stadium, says Reds owner Evangelos Marinakis.

The expansion would go beyond Forest’s existing plans to increase the ground’s capacity from about 30,000 to 42,000 through the rebuilding of the Peter Taylor Stand and extension of the Bridgford Stand.

Those plans and Forest’s future on the banks of the River Trent were in jeopardy when negotiations between

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