Nuno Espirito Santo might be in the dugout when Nottingham Forest face Fulham on the City Ground on Saturday.
Forest have requested extra time to submit their observations after the Football Association (FA) charged their head coach following offended scenes in the aftermath of Morgan Gibbs-White’s 83rd-minute red card at Brighton on Sunday.
The FA has given the membership till Wednesday, October 2 to present these.
Nuno is probably going to request a listening to into the incident, which noticed him despatched off following his offended response to seeing referee Rob Jones present a second yellow card to Gibbs-White, following his problem on Joao Pedro, after consulting with fourth official Anthony Taylor.
Nuno said that the Key Match Incidents Panel (KMIP) voted by 3-2 that the choice to dismiss Gibbs-White was incorrect, following a agency however truthful problem. The KMIP — is an unbiased panel made up of former gamers and coaches, in addition to one consultant from the Premier League and one other from Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) — the physique that organises refereeing in England — which opinions the foremost choices in the league every week. Forest are possible to use the KMIP’s determination as mitigation for Nuno’s offended response on the touchline.
Nuno confirmed that he did go into the referee’s room afterwards to apologise to the match officers.
“It’s very difficult for managers to control their emotions sometimes, it happens with a lot of managers,” Nuno stated on Thursday. “It’s an emotional game, it was an emotional situation, an emotional part of the game, sometimes it’s hard.
“I had the chance to apologise for my behaviours. I think it was accepted. I will try hard not to repeat it.
“We will respond to the charges. I think we deserve an opportunity to answer our view on the incident and we will do so as a club.”
Nuno and Gibbs-White had been charged with performing in an improper method and/or utilizing abusive and/or insulting phrases.
Nuno already has a suspended one-match ban hanging over him, which got here after he was crucial of the match officers following Forest’s 2-0 defeat at Everton in April, when Forest had three penalty claims rejected. That punishment was suspended till May 26, on the situation that Nuno didn't breach the foundations once more.
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