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Crystal Palace criticized CAS and UEFA after a ban on participating in the Europa League. We will remind, earlier UEFA did not allow the London club to win the Cup of England to participate in the Europa League because of Lyon-until June they had one owner, John Textor. Orlov transferred conferences to the league.
Crystal Palace appealed this decision in CAS, but on Monday the sports arbitration court ruled that it should remain valid. Thus, in the Europa League, instead of Londoners, Nottingham Forest will play.
At a time when we had to celebrate our victory in the England Super Cup on Wambla, the UEFA decision, which was supported by the sports arbitration court, shows that sports merits are becoming meaningless.
When on that significant May day we won the Cup of England with Manchester City, our players and coach deserved the right to play in the Europa League. We were refused such an opportunity. It seems that some clubs, organizations and individuals have unique privileges and power.
This growing and unhealthy influence destroyed the hopes and dreams of Crystal Palace fans and does not bode well ambitious teams throughout Europe, striving for progress, while the rules and sanctions are applied in the most rude way. Cartoon structures are hidden behind the mask of blind trust, while clubs like ours, which are not related to other clubs, are forbidden to participate in one competition. In order to strengthen the injustice, clubs, which, apparently, have informal agreements with each other, is permitted such participation and even, perhaps, matches predicted by soccer betting odds against each other.
We respect the members of the CAS tribunal, but this process is aimed at seriously limiting, and in our case to make a fair trial practically impossible. The refusal of all requests for the disclosure of information to obtain correspondence between the relevant parties, the refusal to give testimony involved in the persons and the general absence of formalities and respect for the law means that decisions cannot be properly challenged, which leads to predetermined results.
UEFA decision has wider consequences for managing in this sport. The combination of poorly thought -out rules and their unequal application means that our fans will be deprived of the opportunity to see how the team will perform in the European League for the first time in their history.
This should be a turning point for football.
UEFA must fulfill its mandate on the adoption of coordinated rules, which are properly brought to the publication of the public and applied, with reasonable terms for eliminating uncertainty and consistent sanctions, with an equal attitude to all clubs and the proper process of appeal. The European court made it clear that in the future decisions like this would be more carefully studied by national courts. Only then, justice and the proper legal procedure will be observed in relation to each team.
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