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.
Funny how Crystal Palace got the consequence by the multi ownership. They're still in the process to appeal their demotion to the CAS, but i feel it will be useless caused by EPL approved textor's request to sell his shares in the club. They must forget their dream to play in Europa League. The better they to accept their fate in UECL, then win it.
I think this might be the best for them, if they can win the Conference League all these pain or disappointed won't be remembered much.
That would be beautiful seeing themselves winning a trophy back to back seasons. Although, I must say it's still heartbreaking after dreaming of themselves playing at Europa League but ended up demoted because their management has share on multiple clubs.