Interim Newcastle boss Joe Kinnear has served one match of a touchline ban but has one game still to go.
Newcastle boss still banned for one more match
Joe Kinnear has served one match of a touchline ban carried over from his time with Nottingham Forest but has one game still to go.
The Football Association has clarified the situation after it emerged over the weekend that the interim Newcastle boss would not be able to take his place in the dugout.
Saturday's 2-1 defeat at home to Blackburn counted as the start of his suspension but Kinnear must complete his suspension when Newcastle travel to Everton next weekend.
An FA spokesman said: "It is a two-match suspension which is carried over from when he left his position at Nottingham Forest to when he started any further employment, in this case at Newcastle United.
"Yesterday counted as the first one and Newcastle's next game at Everton will be the second of the two."
Kinnear incurred the ban for comments made to the referee after Forest's clash with Gillingham in November 2004, when he described the official as 'Coco the clown'.
The punishment was not handed down until January 2005, by which time the former Wimbledon boss had resigned from his post.
