Crystal Palace and the Europa League

[Rook]

Now that Crystal Palace has been punished, Chelsea and man city can finally relax that this is all over.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Two tier policing in togger.
Shambles this.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Does anybody really want football to be like this?

Said it the other day, this isn't football.

 

[Rita_Poon]

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.

you're tellin' me!

 

[Rita_Poon]

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.

Great at snooker though.

 

[Rita_Poon]

So, the long shadow of a real villain, 'agent peter johnson' looms large once again. Good ol pete owned both Tranmere and Everton and no one at FA HQ thought anything of it, initially.

As for Palace, it's a shifty technicality that appears quite underhand.

I for one would very much appreciate any left overs of these

to be sent to our brothers in arms.

 

[Alan Whittle]

you're tellin' me!

Easy there.

 

[Alan Whittle]

As if the day couldn’t get any better/worse The Premier League has confirmed that Woody Johnson has passed the Owners Fit & Proper Person test and will join the Crystal Palace Board. Which is good/ terrible.

 

[Rita_Poon]

I have no idea who that is.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

Absolute abomination of a ruling, this.

 

[Drico]

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.

The problem is multi-club ownership. It should never have been allowed and is, basically, ungovernable once they start making exceptions or coming up with nonsenses like blind trusts. Of course, if UEFA disallowed multi-club ownership it's likely they would lose control of European football's governance. So, they're compromised straight off the bat and these rules are there to add a sticking plaster over everything.

Nobody sane would trust John Textor. I can understand UEFA, now that they have bent over backwards to turn a blind eye to multi-club ownership for their own ends, taking umbrage at his involvement at more than one club in the same competition. The failure by Palace to play by UEFA's self-serving bureaucratic rules gave the governing body the in they needed to make an easy example of them. I just find it a dereliction of duty by the Palace authorities not to have played along with the paperwork. We know the rules are self-serving, but they are there to protect UEFA's interests above all others. Parish and co were asleep at the wheel in failing to adhere to those. It's so very Everton under Moshiri.

The Palace fans are being denied something won on the pitch. But the board has questions to answer. As Everton learned bitterly, when you lie down with dogs you get fleas.

 

[Rita_Poon]

You wait till an owner of a club has a wife that owns another, and the dog owns a third club. All perfectly legal and above board your honour.

 

[Drico]

I have no idea who that is.

A Trumpist billionaire who was the former ambassador to the UK. Heir to J&J. Headbanger.

 

[Rita_Poon]

A Trumpist billionaire who was the former ambassador to the UK. Heir to J&J. Headbanger.

?

 

[KaiserEFC]

What an absolute crock of bollocks this sport has become.