Crystal Palace were charged by the England Football Association (FA) on Wednesday over a provocative fan banner targeting Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis.

The banner, making lurid unproven allegations about Marinakis's business career, was displayed at the Palace-Forest game in the Premier League on Aug. 24.

Palace supporters in the Holmesdale End held aloft the banner of Marinakis, which depicted the Greek businessman holding a gun to the head of Forest captain Morgan Gibbs-White after the Forest captain had looked set to leave to join Tottenham Hotspur earlier this summer only to perform a U-turn and agree a new contract at the Midlands club.

A litany of allegations were also written on the banner, which the Forest owner has always strongly denied.

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