Crystal Palace and the Europa League

[Cake]

Crystal Palace appeal to CAS against Europa League demotion

Crystal Palace submit an appeal against their demotion from the Europa League to the Conference League with the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

www.bbc.co.uk

Palace have got some nerve including Forest in their appeal. Don't they know who Forest are?

 

[cpfc1905]

Crystal Palace appeal to CAS against Europa League demotion

Crystal Palace submit an appeal against their demotion from the Europa League to the Conference League with the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

www.bbc.co.uk

Palace have got some nerve including Forest in their appeal. Don't they know who Forest are?

If we win this thing I hope someone is filming that Jabba the Hutt slob's reaction

 

[Yarrgh]

Screwed over for not being a cash cow club. We all know if it had been a Scab 6 club in the same situation they'd be allowed in.

The parasites in charge of football need to be purged.

 

[ClausThomsen]

Everyone from UEFA to the clubs themselves really have made an absolute mess of things.

Multi club ownership / investment is always a potential huge conflict of interest and incredibly damaging to the integrity of any competition when those clubs are placed in a situation where they directly compete with one another.

The rule should be if the same person, fund, company or whatever has a significant holding in a club, say 5% or whatever figure you feel, then that is enough to cause conflict of interest and those clubs cannot enter the same competition - choose one and drop the other. All the talk of blind trusts, control or influence is just water muddying nonsense.

Look at Forest for example. Does anyone remotely believe that Evangelos Marinakis putting his shares into a 'blind trust' genuinely eliminates his control or influence at the club?

 

[tonyhorne]

I know its bad for Palace and their fans; but come on, it is a little bit funny because its happening to another club...

No because there are certain clubs they would not allow this to happen to. There would be a change of rules to accommodate the agreed commercial narrative ...