Forest are a great club with great fans. But the owner is being dragged into it as he wrote to UEFA. No other club did. He’s had more dealings with Textor clubs than palace. And now they are in a MCO link up too. You can see why palace fans think the whole thing stinks.
But it’s still based on a falsehood. The budgets of the EL and ECL are very different. Forest are desperate not to fall foul of PSR again. Transfers were being lined up, but couldn’t be completed until after your appeal was settled. Huge delay. Forest only ever wrote to get a deadline date.
Most of the subs on Forest’s bench couldn’t be added in preseason. Talks were ongoing. But until the club knew which competition we were going to be in they couldn’t be completed. You can’t be dobbinh somebody in, when you’re writing to ask when the investigation they are already under will end.
Forest have never been mentioned in a chant or on a banner. Marinakis is the target A club US not the owner
Not the owner
The banner was a bit silly though. It’s makes reference to things that fans know he has been legally acquitted from in the past, and treading just close enough to libel that it could get their club an FA disrepute charge. That helps nobody.
It’s made a point. Sometimes that’s worth a fine.
Palace fans expressed an opinion on him. They have also expressed an opinion on other owners, including their own, and other people involved in football, via the medium of banners and song. With the focus being on those that appear to be corrupt He isn't special, isn't the first, won't be the last
*Mr Maranakis