[Football] If Palace can't play in the Europa League

[Thunder Bolt]

That possibility would come under 'competent'.

Or thinking that if Palace get kicked out, they can’t accuse us of complaining?

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

I for one am in favour of Palace being owned by a Trump lackey Chelsea fan with a name made up of two slang words for what he’d have to be to spend £200m on that shower. I hope they have the same success as his American Football Team.

I for one am in favour of Palace being owned by a Trump lackey Chelsea fan with a name made up of two slang words for what he’d have to be to spend £200m on that shower. I hope they have the same success as his American Football Team.

Not to mention the fact that he’s renowned for limited investment in the Jets…..

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

"It is understood Brighton have no intention of making a complaint to Uefa and would be unlikely to join Forest in any legal action to prevent Palace, their arch-rivals, from competing in Europe."

Let's hope our neighbours up the road appreciate that BHAFC always has class.

Disappointingly classy in this case.

I was kind of hoping that he'd write an open letter to uefa, similar to what the always ultras like to do when they lose a game or two, complaining about how unfair it would be for cheating bastard rule breakers two pence in the pound palace to be allowed into european competition.

Then on the night of what would have been their inaugural game in Europe fly a plane over croydon trailing a banner of nelson muntz pointing at an empty selhurst, the europa logo and saying haha.

Unfortunately Tony Bloom is a man whose class seems to be as vast as his wealth.

 

[kevo]

As the saying goes "Its not over until the fat lady sings".

Until the fat Greek sings, surely?

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

Disappointingly classy in this case.

Unfortunately Tony Bloom is a man whose class seems to be as vast as his wealth.

So classy he refuses to acknowledge his ex business partner and demonstrates his spat to the world on an annual basis at Brentford?

 

[y2dave]

Very interesting from ChatGpt:

UEFA’s rules provide a mechanism for reassigning spots across associations, prioritizing domestic cup winners and top-placed league clubs from other countries . Essentially:

1. Drogheda’s slot would be marked vacant.
2. A club from another association—typically the highest-ranked eligible team from a higher UEFA-ranked country—would then take that qualifying round positio

 

[SeagullsoverLondon]

So they've been working on it for several months and still get kicked out? Palace have been working on it (seemingly) for a few weeks and yet look set to take part?

There seems to be two separate narratives being reported by some in the UK media over the past few days.
The first is that UEFA will rule that Palace will be OK as Textor doesn't have a controlling interest.
And the second is that Palace will be OK as Textor about to sell his stake.
It seems to me that if the first one was actually true, then there is no need to sell.

I suspect the outcome will be Palace in the Europa, but there seems to be a lot of spinning of this story from Palace sources at the moment which appears to be a little desperate.

 

[US Seagull]

Very interesting from ChatGpt:

UEFA’s rules provide a mechanism for reassigning spots across associations, prioritizing domestic cup winners and top-placed league clubs from other countries . Essentially:

1. Drogheda’s slot would be marked vacant.
2. A club from another association—typically the highest-ranked eligible team from a higher UEFA-ranked country—would then take that qualifying round positio

Where is it getting that a club from another country would take the spot? I can't find anything on it? And which country would that be?

For what it's worth, CoPilot disagrees with ChatGPT:

UEFA doesn’t reassign the place to a club from another country. Instead, the competition just proceeds with one fewer team, and the vacant slot is absorbed into the draw structure.

So one or the other (or both) are hallucinating.

 

[Lever]

I suspect the outcome will be Palace in the Europa, but there seems to be a lot of spinning of this story from Palace sources at the moment which appears to be a little desperate.

I think you are right but I just can't think how they can do it.......

 

[Lever]

It's nice to be owned by someone who, as well as being committed and unfeasibly generous, is both honourable and competent..

This......

 

[Eeyore]

There seems to be two separate narratives being reported by some in the UK media over the past few days.
The first is that UEFA will rule that Palace will be OK as Textor doesn't have a controlling interest.
And the second is that Palace will be OK as Textor about to sell his stake.
It seems to me that if the first one was actually true, then there is no need to sell.

I suspect the outcome will be Palace in the Europa, but there seems to be a lot of spinning of this story from Palace sources at the moment which appears to be a little desperate.

I think it's getting a bit desperate in here. Time to let it go now I think. The thread keeps going to the top and I'm trying to avoid the habit of opening these things. It's not happening.

 

[Happy Exile]

Where is it getting that a club from another country would take the spot? I can't find anything on it? And which country would that be?

For what it's worth, CoPilot disagrees with ChatGPT:


So one or the other (or both) are hallucinating.

I asked Grok again, specifically referencing Drogheda and whether that had any influence - the answer is MASSIVE but the gist is they are very similar, the main difference being that Drogheda have no individual who can sell shares in the way Textor can, so if he can sell that increases the chances of Palace getting away with it.

BUT

Grok does suggest the Drogheda ruling isn't great for Palace in that it puts additional pressure on the sale of shares because it shows UEFA aren't messing around as that aside it's a near identical situation between the two clubs. As a bonus, Drogheda go to the CAS on 16th June. If the UEFA ban sticks this is potentially very bad news for Palace as it sets a precedent should Forest decide to take legal action should Palace be allowed in, which Grok reckons could tip the balance against Palace in a big way.

Personally, I think Forest owe it to us after we kindly gave them their best home game for a generation last season - another 4D chess move by Tony and algorithm predicting this moment and when we'd need them to pay us back...

(I think Palace will get in, probably win it, unfortunately.)

 

[Jim in the West]

True, but Uefa will allow them to compete if the ownership issue is resolved. I imagine they would then just issue Palace with a fine for missing the March 1 deadline.

If that’s the case then they will be making things up as they go along - the rules are VERY clear that the conditions have to be met by 1st March, and if not you can’t compete. There’s nothing about fines.

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

 

[5Ways Gull]

If they can but then get knocked out at the earliest point, so it turns out they couldn't that would be hysterical.

 

[pay no mind]

Looks like a match made in heaven:

 

[oldboyroy]

They'll probably go and win it, a competition they shouldn't be in. Total Palace.

Champions league qualification and possible relegated then?

 

[pigmanovich]

Looks like a match made in heaven:

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Nice to see Roy enjoying retirement

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

So classy he refuses to acknowledge his ex business partner and demonstrates his spat to the world on an annual basis at Brentford?

Spat:
a short argument, usually about something that is not important:
She was having a spat with her brother about who should do the washing up.

spat

1. past simple and past participle of spit 2. a short argument, usually about…

dictionary.cambridge.org

You think that the issue between Bloom and Benham is a spat?

I mean, if you genuinely think it's over Benham using Blooms coffee mug at work then yeah I guess Bloom is being quite petty.

I'd say that if the issue is serious enough that it led to legal proceedings and neither man wanting to be in the same room as the other 20 years on then it's quite an acrimonious situation. As far as I'm aware Bloom has never spoken in public about it, certainly doesn't go on about it and the only acknowledgement of it is once a season going in with the away fans. All things considered not that unclassy.

 

[nicko31]

Interesting.....

Uefa Conference League: Drogheda set to miss out on Conference League spot

Drogheda are set to miss out on a place in the 2025-26 Uefa Conference League because two clubs under the same ownership cannot compete in the same competition.

www.bbc.co.uk

There really are some tin pot outfits in that league. Average gate 2000