Crystal Palace and the Europa League

[mahermi1]

UEFA have finally got themselves together on multi club ownership by accepting a mechanism whereby a person with “significant control” in both clubs, may put their shareholding in one of the clubs into a blind trust. The formalities must be completed by the preceding March 1. So the regular Euro qualifiers have (presumably) complied. Palace, qualifying via the FA Cup, were playing Millwall in the 5th Round on March 1. UEFA have heard our case; we wait.

All well and good but blind faith was good enough for the usual crew, City, United and Chelsea, its sickening what's been going on for years, the favouritism is appalling. Good luck if you get there in Europe next year, I hope you smash them rodents Nottingham Forest.

 

[14_dollars]

This is dreadful from Forest, shame on them.

Forest are scum. Sub human scum.

 

[witchdoc187]

Forest such little bitches

 

[Wat Tyler]

Why are Forest doing that? They have no chance of winning EL and a decent chance of winning ECL. Bizarre.

 

[tsubaki]

UEFA have finally got themselves together on multi club ownership by accepting a mechanism whereby a person with “significant control” in both clubs, may put their shareholding in one of the clubs into a blind trust. The formalities must be completed by the preceding March 1. So the regular Euro qualifiers have (presumably) complied. Palace, qualifying via the FA Cup, were playing Millwall in the 5th Round on March 1. UEFA have heard our case; we wait.

Sadly they've not got themselves together at all - the idea that you can, for example, have something like City Football Group put a club that they own, fund and support in a blind trust for a season and therefore there is no influence whatsoever by the group over the club in the trust is absurd.

The only solution to multi-club ownership is to ban it.

 

[Simon Buttle]

TBF the answer is that they'll bend over backwards for a nationally big club (City, United and Olympiakos) but Palace can be made to suffer for not ticking a box that doesn't apply to them anyway.

There is a way around it if you apply for some dispensation thing but you have to do it by March and Palace basically didn't think they would win so haven't done it.

 

[Alan Whittle]

Sadly they've not got themselves together at all - the idea that you can, for example, have something like City Football Group put a club that they own, fund and support in a blind trust for a season and therefore there is no influence whatsoever by the group over the club in the trust is absurd.

The only solution to multi-club ownership is to ban it.

Yes, I meant that they had agreed and implemented a policy, not that it was either practical or sensible but at least something to hang their hat on.

 

[mrsnugfit]

Sorry if this has been discussed to death in other corners of the forum … but how does Crystal Palace’s situation compare to a potential scenario where both Everton and Roma qualify to the same European cup competition?

Imagine if this happened to TFG. They would back Roma. Can you imagine TFG telling those Italians "Sorry I know you've qualified but we're putting our English team who have also qualified in it instead".

 

[Exeter_Gently]

I see Forest are being there usual Scab self.

 

[HalfTimeSayers]

There are some stances where you’d back your club. But that’s truly shameful and embarrassing. Raise it maybe, ideally in conjunction with a majority of other clubs, under the guise of seeking clarification. But running to the teacher? —————

 

[Huyton Layne]

I feel bad for forest fans that don't support that Jabba of a chairman. Just sitting there watching your club be turned into a pariah after you finally get back to the top flight.
Unless their fan base love him and their skirting of all the rules. Then I hope the goals dry up without Woods in God mode and they plummet.

 

[witchdoc187]

I see Forest are being there usual Scab self.

Embarrassing. They'll struggle next year I think. They had a lucky patch somehow. The last 10 games was a true reflection of where they are. And their owner is an embarrassment

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Embarrassing. They'll struggle next year I think. They had a lucky patch somehow. The last 10 games was a true reflection of where they are. And their owner is an embarrassment

Horrible club

 

[RomanReigns]

I feel bad for forest fans that don't support that Jabba of a chairman. Just sitting there watching your club be turned into a pariah after you finally get back to the top flight.
Unless their fan base love him and their skirting of all the rules. Then I hope the goals dry up without Woods in God mode and they plummet.

When Gary Neville got banned from the forest v Chelsea game by Marinakis, their fans were singing “he does what he wants, he does what he wants, Marinakis, he does what he wants”

They fully back their dodgy owner

 

[witchdoc187]

Horrible club

Used to like them back in the day with cloughy etc al. But now they sing songs from the 80s and have unlikeable owner. Won't be long until they're back where they spent most of their time