Nottingham Forest star Morgan Gibbs-White has been banned from driving for six months after admitting to speeding six times.
The England international plead guilty to several offences after being caught speeding on the A52 in the Radcliffe-on-Trent area of Nottinghamshire between December 2024 and February this year, the BBC report.
Gibbs-White admitted to five counts of exceeding 70mph on a dual carriageway, with his highest recorded speed reaching 96mph between Stragglethorpe Road and Lings Bar Road.
The 25-year-old, who could leave the City Ground this summer after three years at the club, was fined £3,966 and received three points for each offence during a sentencing hearing at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
He was initially fined £6,000 for the offences but the amount was reduced to £666 after his guilty plea. Additionally, he has been given 19 penalty points on his licence and ordered to pay £1,598 victim surcharge and £110 court costs.
Gibbs-White’s legal trouble off the pitch follow his club’s struggles on it, with the star man admitting Forest have struggle to handle the pressure of competing for Champions League qualification amid their recent poor form.
Nottingham Forest star Morgan Gibbs-White has been banned from driving for six months after admitting to speeding six times
The 25-year-old, who could leave the City Ground this summer after three years at the club, was fined £3,966 and received three points for each offence
Forest have spent most of the campaign in the top five but have now slumped to seventh after collecting only a point from their last three home games, the latest a damaging 2-2 draw against already-relegated Leicester.
‘We put ourselves in the best position but the last three or four games haven’t been good enough,’ he said. ‘We’ve secured European football which is incredible but we wanted more.
‘A few games ago, our expectation was to qualify for the Champions League and it was the same for our fans. We’ve got two games to go and we have to turn it around.
‘None of us have been in this situation before so we handled it well to start with but as it’s got away from us, we haven’t handled it so well.
‘We’re new to it but we still fighting and building as a team and a club.
‘It’s been a tough season, very demanding especially when we’ve put ourselves in the positions we have.
‘I can’t put a reason on it. Fatigue? Tiredness? But we can’t make excuses because the fans deserve better. We can’t concede goals like we did here. It’s just frustrating.’
