{"id":589253,"date":"2026-08-10T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589253\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:00:09","slug":"evangelos-marinakis-nottingham-forest-owner-sues-crystal-palace-over-fan-banner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589253\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelos Marinakis: Nottingham Forest owner sues Crystal Palace over fan banner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evangelos Marinakis is suing Crystal Palace<\/a> for a banner unfurled by their fans depicting the Nottingham Forest<\/a> owner holding a gun to midfielder Morgan Gibbs-White’s head.<\/p>\n

Marinakis’ lawyers lodged the defamation claim in the High Court on Monday, with CPFC Limited listed as one of the two defendants. <\/p>\n

The banner, seen during a 1-1 Premier League draw<\/a> between the two sides at Selhurst Park last August, read: “Mr Marinakis is not involved in blackmail, match-fixing, drug trafficking or corruption.”<\/p>\n

Marinakis has consistently denied any wrongdoing in relation to such allegations.<\/p>\n

In November 2025, the Football Association had charged Palace<\/a> with failing to ensure that supporters did not behave in an improper, offensive, abusive or provocative way.<\/p>\n

While the banner was not specified as the reason for the charge, there are strict rules regarding messaging containing defamatory, political and offensive slogans.<\/p>\n

England international Gibbs-White had come close to leaving Forest last summer after Tottenham<\/a> appeared to trigger a \u00a360m release clause<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But he signed a new contract<\/a> to stay at Forest and spoke about his decision during an interview alongside Marinakis.<\/p>\n

Marinakis-owned Forest had taken Palace’s place in the Europa League last season after the south London club were relegated to the Conference League for breaking Uefa’s multi-club ownership rules.<\/p>\n

BBC Sport has approached Crystal Palace<\/a> and Nottingham Forest<\/a> for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evangelos Marinakis is suing Crystal Palace for a banner unfurled by their fans depicting the Nottingham Forest owner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-589253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}