Only 10% of Palace though so not sure if that keeps him under a limit.
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Don't know if it's true, but I've heard a suggestion that the limit is 30%. Textor owns a higher percentage of shares than that in pale arse, but a lower percentage of voting shares. Their appeal likely to be based on the lack of significant interest due to the voting share percentage being below the threshold.
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Decidedly cunty version of events on the BBC website suggesting we lobbied for Palace’s demotion. I thought we just asked for quick clarification?
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Christ, it would be very one way if it does.
Be careful of people dressed head to toe in black carrying smoke grenades.
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I think that’s our fans’ hopeful favourable reading. BBC (Mokbel) is saying it knows what’s in the letter.
Given Palace are still in sodding Europe for the first time, not sure why being demoted from the second to third tier competition is being portrayed as such a disaster for them.
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Agreed on the cunt version. Really trying to stoke things without knowing the facts.
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I find it interesting that Textor, who does a lot of business with Marinakis, has done a number of things (or not done) such that it undermined pale arse's position to forests benefit.
Oh no! Look at that string of awful inadvertent mistakes (not sorting out compliant ownership, making statements prior to the case being decided that undermined palaces argument)!
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I can't see that Palace really have an argument, other than the rules are shit.
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And it was only in March 2004 that it emerged a secret compromise had been reached between Liverpool and Middlesbrough over compensation for the Teessiders shortly before the matter was due in court.
From the Liverpool Echo
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Tempting to buy the video pass for all our pre season games, except the last time I did that it didn't really work half the time.
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I've wondered who they market this nonsense at. Now I know.
Why the fuck, during the summer months, would you want to waste time indoors watching a bunch of training sessions on your laptop?
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Well I'm out running this morning, then at a picnic with Little Miss Shady until 2, so I'll then be coming home and fancy chilling out a bit. Plus I'll cast it to the TV. Any other life choices you want to be snarky about today or is this it?
I quite enjoy listening to Forest on the radio while walking in the dark winter evenings. Is that acceptable?
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Swing dancing?
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That’s what I believe, too.
Without anyone actually saying so directly, our letter is being spun (Times, BBC & prob others) as Forest being the odious class sneak, raising his hand and saying “Miss, Miss, Palace are cheating behind their desk!”.
That is demonstrably nonsense. The simple fact that Palace were at risk because of ownership complications was already common knowledge & being widely reported (Athletic & elsewhere) days if not weeks before Forest wrote any letter. To have written to UEFA pointing out Palace’s ownership structures would have been a total waste of time & benefit no-one. For that reason I think it’s fair to discount that version.
I am led to believe that we sought clarification as Guru says, but (thinking about it a bit more), even if the BBC’s characterisation is closer to the truth, the most likely gist is something along the lines of “Oi! UEFA! You made us jump through all these governance hoops; are you going to just let Palace get away with it?”, only doubtless phrased in silkier legal language than that.
Personally I don’t have any great issue with that sort of letter either. The difference between the two comps is millions of quid; I don’t see it as in any way unreasonable to prod UEFA into making a decision, especially with the transfer window already open & the clock ticking.
Palace fans also seem to want to have their cake and eat it (judging by comments in the Athletic, anyway). They simultaneously claim that the whole blind trust thing is a legal fiction not worth the paper it’s written on (which may well be true), but also that it is unreasonable to expect Palace to have done the same thing just in case, as Forest did.
If it’s so flimsy & worthless, what would it have cost them? A few thousand in legal fees, maybe equivalent to a week’s wages for one of their players? Fine, you think it’s worthless, but just do it! Forest, Brighton & others did it, but not Palace.
But snotfair and it’s all Forest’s fault apparently. I have nothing against Palace in general, but in this case… fuck ‘em. Parish’s whiny “defence” in the press yesterday was risible.
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I’m on holiday and am hoping to sneak the headphones in this afternoon to listen to Harborough Towns home friendly v Telford.
