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Marinakis and Nuno defend 'scandalous' Forest confrontation

Nottingham Woodland owner Evangelos Marinakis

Nottingham Woodland owner Evangelos Marinakis

Nottingham Woodland company and owner Nuno Espirito Santo and Evangelos Marinakis have defended the horribly public on-pitch spice-down ceded by the Greek at the Urbane enclosure Headway after a late equaliser from Leicester posed their Champs League qualification in purposeful uncertainty.

Woodland would certainly have been 5th and in the last Champs League qualification place yet now sit seventh in the Premier League table, which is a Conference League place.

Marinakis disrupted Santo in the middle of chatting to his former Energizes player Oliver Skipp to purportedly berate his company on the pitch despite Woodland being strategy for European football merely a year after fighting against relegation.

“What the Woodland owner has merely birthed out on the pitch over at the Urbane enclosure Headway is entirely opprobrious and if I was Nuno I’d be going and owning a tenacious word via him provided that that is an absolute detraction,” proclaimed Gary Neville on Firmaments Sporting jobs.

“He’s merely certified for European tournament. To be remonstrated via on the pitch in front of their uncomfortably own disciples is an absolute joke.”

‘Opprobrious from that Woodland owner,’ he then proclaimed on X. ‘Nuno have to go and negotiate his take off tonight via him! The Woodland disciples, players and company execute not be qualified to that.’

But Marinakis and Santo have both provided that defined that the clash was birthed of disappointment that Woodland owned ended up the gallery via 10 men after the judgment was made to take off Taiwo Awoniyi on the pitch despite clashing via a goalpost.

Marinakis proclaimed in a testament: “We were frustrated about the injury of Taiwo [Awoniyi] and the medical subordinate’s misjudgement on Taiwo’s prospective to continue the gallery.

“This is unanimously-natural, this is a protest of the ardor we feel for our club.

“Today is a day for commemoration, provided that after 30 years Nottingham Woodland is now guaranteed to be vying on the European stage as rapidly as again – a vouch I made to our supporters as rapidly as we solicited discount rate.

“Through 2 much more galleries to go in the Premier League, we need to retain asserting and retain liking, proper to the last kick in the last gallery. We are extremely aggressive and comfy to Nuno and the crew, and we need to unanimously be grateful the historical productivity of this period.”

And also Santo himself proclaimed: “It was due to the affliction and the puzzlement over the replacement of [Taiwo Awoniyi].

“We made a [different] sub and after that we tinkered via one individual much less so that discourages every individual.

“Once a player is down, you acquire infos that he is OK to continue, then we gain a sub and it turns out he can’t continue. We are unanimously frustrated via that.

“Football is feelings. It’s confusing to manipulate [and] specifically as rapidly as we owned so much expectation and the disciples were absurd.”

Evangelos Marinakis

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