As of the news today, Crystal Palace has been demoted from the Europa League to the Conference. We still remember how the qualified by beating Manchester City in the FA cup final to get the Europa League ticket. But the twist here is that, they cannot since Lyon too will be playing in the same Europa League. John Textor owns shares in both Palace and Lyon, (I think he owns majority shares) the thus bridges UEFA multi club ownership rules Which simply states that Clubs with the same ownership cannot play in the same competition. Crystal Palace might go to court for this, lol.
Actually it is probably good news for Crystal Palace, because the competition in the Europa League is higher than in the Conference League, which means that the chances of winning another trophy for Crystal Palace are only increasing.
In addition, Nottingham Forest, who will now qualify for the Europa League, has a longer bench and Nottingham's chances of getting out of the group in the Europa League are higher than Crystal Palace's.
It seems that for Nottingham it will be the first appearance in the European Cup since 1996 and Nottingham fans can be congratulated with this and I would if I were the management of Nottingham Forest would already be looking for players to strengthen the squad, because now everyone has learned Nottingham's style of play and the season will be as easy as last year for Nottingham Forest.