Crystal Palace manager handed driving ban for exceeding 20 mph speed limit.

Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner has been banned from driving for six months after exceeding a 20 mph speed limit in London.

The 51-year-old FA Cup-winning coach was recorded by a speed camera driving his BMW at 29 mph along Old Kent Road in Bermondsey, south London, last July.

According to court documents, Glasner already had previous driving offences, which led to an automatic disqualification. The Austrian admitted the offence in a letter to Willesden Magistrates’ Court in northwest London, acknowledging he had been speeding on a road with a 20 mph limit.

In a handwritten note submitted to the court, he accepted responsibility for his actions and assured authorities that he would not repeat the offence. He also chose not to contest the ban.

A magistrate imposed the six-month driving disqualification last Tuesday. Glasner was also ordered to pay a £660 fine, along with £130 in court costs and a £264 victim surcharge.

In May, Glasner guided Crystal Palace to victory in the FA Cup during his first full season in charge, securing the club’s first major trophy.

However, the team was knocked out of this season’s FA Cup in the third round by non-league side Macclesfield in January.

A week later, Glasner announced he would leave the club when his contract expires at the end of the season, a decision that appeared linked to dissatisfaction with the club’s transfer policy, which saw several key players depart while those remaining at Selhurst Park were, according to him, left without adequate support from the club’s leadership.

Crystal Palace are scheduled to face London rivals Tottenham Hotspur on Thursday in an important Premier League match, with both teams battling to avoid relegation.

Glasner submitted his guilty plea in writing on January 27 and later confirmed in another letter on February 16 that he accepted the expected ban without requiring a public court hearing.

Details of the case emerged after Britain’s Press Association obtained access to the court documents earlier this week.