The fee learn reviews from referee Robert Jones and fourth official Anthony Taylor, who mentioned Nuno and Gibbs-White swore at them following the midfielder’s pink card.
Nuno was additionally mentioned to have “gesticulated aggressively” at Jones.
Nonetheless, the statements added that Nuno apologised to the officers after the sport. Each males wrote letters of apology to the fee and gave oral submissions.
The fee believed Gibbs-White’s regret and assertion that it might not occur once more to be “real”, providing sufficient mitigation for the usual two-game ban for being despatched off for foul and abusive language to be diminished to at least one.
The fee praised Nuno for his honesty, even when it didn’t at all times assist his case, with the previous Wolves boss “stopping wanting saying it might not occur once more”.
It mentioned a one-match ban would have been applicable had it not been for 2 earlier incidents of misconduct, together with a suspended one-match ban for feedback following Forest’s 2-0 defeat by Everton in April.
Due to this fact a two-match ban, plus activating the one-match suspended ban, was issued.