Five game suspension imposed on Vangelis Marinakis by the English FA’s independent disciplinary committee. The decision was announced on Friday afternoon (18/10), a few days after the Nottingham Forest owner apologized for his behavior in the game against Fulham on 28 September.
On Tuesday (22/10), moreover, Athletic revealed that Marinakis was punished “because he spat on the floor next to them as they walked the bellows to the locker room». In fact, the British media also carry the defense line of his strong man Olympiakou. In his plea, he denied that he spat at them, stating that “he felt a cough coming on and coughed to the floor, down and to his right, out of the way of the umpires».
Furthermore, he stated that “smokes two or three cigars a day and often needs to expectorate and/or cough.
His cough contains phlegm. If he has to spit, he spits on a tissue if one is available or on the floor if one is not available.
Sometimes when he coughs, spit or phlegm can fall on the floor. On the day of the incident, he suffered from a cough that bothered him. He was getting candy».
Source: Sport Fm
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