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Fawaz Al Hasawi admits his Nottingham Forest reign ultimately taught him a lesson in how NOT to run a football club.

And the Kuwaiti insists he would do things very differently if he bought another club in the future.

It is almost six months since Al Hasawi sold the Reds to Evangelos Marinakis, after his Premier League dream for the City Ground club turned into a bit of a nightmare.

The Al Hasawi family were loved by fans when they bought the club in 2012 and outlined their vision of taking Forest back into the top flight of English football.

But supporters ended up staging ‘Fawaz Out’ protests at the City Ground last season, having had enough of his turbulent reign in which the Reds went backwards on the pitch and had no structure off it.

Marinakis has made a good start to rebuilding the club since buying it from Al Hasawi in May.

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And Al Hasawi has made it clear what he would do differently now.

"To not be chairman for the club,” he said, in an interview with the BBC.

“I am telling you the truth because chairman is everything on top of your head. Whatever is happening at the club it’s your fault. Everything happen in the club it’s your fault.

"So this is what I think in the future if I buy a club I would bring a chairman and bring a chief executive, let them do their job.

"I will just come and look at the club from the director box and that’s it."