Fenerbahce expelled from European competitions for the next 2 years

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Horsham Gull

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• Aug 28, 2013

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Fenerbahce has been expelled from the Europa League and barred from qualifying for next season’s Champions League in a match-fixing case. The Court of Arbitration for Sport says it dismissed the Turkish club’s appeal against a two-year competition ban imposed by UEFA,The CAS ruling immediately removes Fenerbahce from the group stage of the Europa League. Fenerbache was due to join the second-tier competition after being eliminated by Arsenal in the Champions League playoffs on Tuesday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/dcunited/sports-court-expels-fenerbahce-from-europa-league-and-next-champions-league-for-match-fixing/2013/08/28/9cf3b1ee-0fc6-11e3-a2b3-5e107edf9897_story.html

 

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stripeyshark

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• Aug 28, 2013

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Horsham Gull said:

Fenerbahce has been expelled from the Europa League and barred from qualifying for next season’s Champions League in a match-fixing case. The Court of Arbitration for Sport says it dismissed the Turkish club’s appeal against a two-year competition ban imposed by UEFA,The CAS ruling immediately removes Fenerbahce from the group stage of the Europa League. Fenerbache was due to join the second-tier competition after being eliminated by Arsenal in the Champions League playoffs on Tuesday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/dcunited/sports-court-expels-fenerbahce-from-europa-league-and-next-champions-league-for-match-fixing/2013/08/28/9cf3b1ee-0fc6-11e3-a2b3-5e107edf9897_story.html

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About ****ing time a foreign club got this treatment. Would've been intesting if Arsenal lost that one though.

 

HastingsSeagull

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BGC Manila

• Aug 28, 2013

• #3

That will be half their players gone then

 

Paris

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13th district

• Aug 28, 2013

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If I was a Austria Salzburg fan i'd be a little miffed.

 

The Spanish

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• Aug 28, 2013

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Paris said:

If I was a Austria Salzburg fan i'd be a little miffed.

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result for arsenal though they are guaranteed some decent away ticket sales playing fenerbahce at home

 

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ozseagull

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• Aug 28, 2013

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Why not make the decision before the arsenal game. Surely two fixtures that arsenal needn't have played?

 

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Berty23

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• Aug 28, 2013

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Mate the players new before kick off and decided to see who could kick jack wil the highest without getting sent off. There were some fine entries in that game if that was the case.