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.
I am just getting to know about this news and it is saddening how this situation happened. It has reduced the dominance of The English Premier league clubs in this season's European competitions.
If I were to be the owner of the Lyon and Crystal Palace, I will rather go with Crystal palace because of the view, the endorsements and more.
It has been donkey years that Crystal Palace qualified for the European competition and I am not happy that their joy is about to be cut short. I pray the case goes in their favour.