Evangelos Marinakis continued to take out his frustrations as he left the pitch after Nottingham Forest’s draw with Leicester.
The Greek businessman stormed onto the pitch at the City Ground following the final whistle on Sunday.
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AFPThe Forest owner confronted Nuno Espirito Santo following their draw with Leicester[/caption]
Marinakis was seen angrily confronting manager Nuno Espirito Santo despite his side securing European football with a point.
Forest will embark on their first continental campaign for 29 years next season after guaranteeing a top seven finish.
However, their owner was left furious after they were held by the already relegated Foxes.
New footage has now emerged of Marinakis as he left the pitch and headed towards the tunnel.
In a video shared to X, he can be seen kicking a bucket in the direction of the dugout.
It came before the 57-year-old released a statement in response to the full-time scenes.
He wrote on Instagram: “Today is a day for celebration because after 30 years Nottingham Forest is guaranteed to be competing on the European stage once again, a promise I made to our supporters when we achieved promotion!
“With two more games to go in the Premier League, we must keep believing and keep dreaming, right to the final kick of the game.
“We are extremely proud of and close to Nuno and the team, and we must celebrate the historic achievements of this season.
“Everybody – coaching staff, players, supporters and including myself – we were frustrated around the injury of Taiwo and the medical staff’s misjudgement on Taiwo’s ability to continue the game.
X / @racingbloggerMarinakis angrily kicked a bucket before heading down the tunnel[/caption]
“This is natural, this is a demonstration of the passion we feel for our club.”
Meanwhile, Nuno told Match of the Day: “Football is emotions. Today there were more than 30,000 people in the ground with their own emotions.
“It was a tough moment, after the situation with [Taiwo Awoniyi] we had one man less after a misunderstanding.
“It’s difficult to control emotions when we had so much expectation on a day like this.”
Marinakis, who also owns Greek giants Olympiacos, bought Forest back in 2017.
He has since overseen the club’s return to the Premier League three years ago ahead of their European qualification this term.
The draw with Leicester means Nuno’s side will finish in the top seven this season and qualify for at least the Conference League next term.
However, Forest could still end the campaign in the top five, which would see them secure a Champions League berth.
It would be the first time the two-time European Cup winners have appeared in the competition since 1980.
Simon Jordan’s verdict
Here’s what former Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan told talkSPORT about the incident.
Was it necessary? Probably not. Was it a poor piece of professionalism from the medical staff? Yeah. Should he have dealt with them offline? Yeah.
Is it necessary for Gary Neville to make those sorts of observations? It feels to me sometimes that he and Carragher are now making observations simply to get attention.
It’s a ridiculous conversation to suggest that Nuno Espirito Santo, who was brought back from Middle Eastern football by a motivated owner that might well have stepped across the line in the eyes of the orthodoxy of how people should behave in the football world.
The same people that have this orthodoxy don’t hold the standards themselves.
But let’s just say that they’re right that it’s not really necessary for an owner to walk onto a field and to do what he did, but it certainly isn’t necessary for a leading pundit to come out and say you should be resigning. This is silly stuff.
