Nottingham Forest owner takes offence at Richard Masters’ ‘small club’ remarks

Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis said Richard Masters had been ‘careless’. Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA

The owner of Nottingham Forest has said Richard Masters acted inappropriately when he appeared to describe Forest and Everton as “small clubs” at a parliamentary hearing.

Evangelos Marinakis said the Premier League’s chief executive had been “careless” in making the remarks, which came about as Masters sought to justify the league’s profit and sustainability rules to MPs.