Leicester manager Nigel Pearson has accepted a Football Association charge of using insulting words towards a fan.
The FA has confirmed that the 51-year-old has accepted the charge of using "abusive and/or insulting words towards a spectator'' during his side's 3-1 defeat to Liverpool on Dec. 2 and has requested a personal hearing.
Pearson had refused to apologise to the fan despite a video emerging of the incident and calls from the Leicester City Supporters Club to say sorry.
The 51-year-old said in the days following the incident: "Let's put it like this: it's best if we don't speak about what happened on either side. I'm not going to repeat what happened here.
"If people were offended by what happened then in some ways that is regrettable, but there's no need for me to apologise to someone of that ilk."
Leicester are bottom of the Premier League table having picked up just two points from their last 11 games.