Crystal Palace and the Europa League

[doyle57]

Both City and Girona have played in the CL without any consequence of multi-club ownership, but unfortunately for Palace, they're not state-owned.

 

[Timbucktoo]

Are we in the same boat with Roma ?

We will be when we get to qualifying for Europe. One team will get demoted and feel they are being harshly treated, the other will be happy with the outcome.

 

[NathDogg]

Load of bollocks, hope palace go on and win it.

UEFA trying to pretend they ain’t corrupt

 

[pfim]

The hubris of Textor strikes again. Feel sorry for everyone involved, except him as he caused this.

 

[Wat Tyler]

 

[pfim]

That's not really the argument though, sporting advantage (at least not before the tournament begins). Complete non-sequitur from Maguire.

 

[f.t.r.s]

Fuming if you're a Palace fan

 

[Alan Whittle]

Fuming if you're a Palace fan

It’s been going on so long that the fume has dissipated somewhat. Plus, it’s not done yet, we will appeal to CAS. A long held view amongst Palace fans is that UEFA couldn’t be seen to find us not guilty as there would be appeals (Forest at least) and their inadequate, threadbare and inconsistently applied rules would be held up to ridicule. We were always going to appeal and hope the penalty be reduced to a fine for a technical breach.

 

[mmmmsnouts]

A lot of clubs would do really well to get shut of John Textor.

 

[Barnfred 55]

It’s been going on so long that the fume has dissipated somewhat. Plus, it’s not done yet, we will appeal to CAS. A long held view amongst Palace fans is that UEFA couldn’t be seen to find us not guilty as there would be appeals (Forest at least) and their inadequate, threadbare and inconsistently applied rules would be held up to ridicule. We were always going to appeal and hope the penalty be reduced to a fine for a technical breach.

Do you now hate Forest more than Brighton.? I don't really understand your long term rivalry with the latter, but Forest are definitely becoming my pantomime baddy.

 

[Alan Whittle]

Do you now hate Forest more than Brighton.? I don't really understand your long term rivalry with the latter, but Forest are definitely becoming my pantomime baddy.

I don’t think it’s Forest so much as that idiot Maranakis. They are definitely becoming pantomime off the pitch but may revert to normal once the fat man leaves.
The Brighton thing has been explained many times on here and I’m too hot to do it again but it began out of the personal rivalry between two ex Spurs players, Venables and Mullery, who managed the two clubs in the old Div 3 and 2 in the mid to late 70’s.

 

[Runub]

This nonsense brings back memories of this….if your face fits and all that

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[SAFCInPeace]

It's shocking to be fair. I suppose if I was a Palace fan I'd still be buzzed with the weird and wonderful european aways that spring out of the Conference League, but it's not really consolation.

 

[Drico]

That's not really the argument though, sporting advantage (at least not before the tournament begins). Complete non-sequitur from Maguire.

Exactly.

I completely accept that more glamorous clubs would have been treated far more leniently - but the idea that Palace have done nothing wrong here is a nonsense. The UEFA rule is perfectly reasonable - but it HAS to be applied to all clubs, not just the tiddlers like them. Their problem is they are the small beer of that multi-club model in comparison to Lyon. So, the "higher-placed" club gets the higher-level competition.

Textor is a showman, more bothered by Jim White, who is a masterful troll, than preparing the paperwork when he should have. This is the chaos chancers like him bring. We should know that better than anyone after our last 30 years.

 

[Alan Whittle]

Exactly.

I completely accept that more glamorous clubs would have been treated far more leniently - but the idea that Palace have done nothing wrong here is a nonsense. The UEFA rule is perfectly reasonable - but it HAS to be applied to all clubs, not just the tiddlers like them. Their problem is they are the small beer of that multi-club model in comparison to Lyon. So, the "higher-placed" club gets the higher-level competition.

Textor is a showman, more bothered by Jim White, who is a masterful troll, than preparing the paperwork when he should have.

A couple of points; The UEFA rules in principle are fine. They are however, like VAR, open to interpretation, hence, for example,why Drogheda were banned instantly and Palace’s case dragged on. So it is perfectly reasonable to argue that Palace have done nothing wrong.
Secondly, Palace are not part of an MCO model and actively resisted joining one.
Finally, not putting shares in a blind trust is not breaking any rule. Palace genuinely felt that Textor’s lack of control or influence didn’t warrant such an action, which is in itself merely a way of circumnavigating UEFA’s own rules, sanctioned by UEFA.