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‘Led to believe that’s the issue’<\/p>\n

Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish has suggested that Nottingham Forest contributed to their demotion from the Europa League.<\/p>\n

Palace have dropped into the Conference League following a ruling by UEFA on multi-club ownership rules.<\/p>\n

John Textor owns a stake at the south London side and also at Lyon, who also qualified for the Europa League last season.<\/p>\n

Forest secured Conference League football, but wrote to UEFA to express their concerns over Palace’s potential rule breach.<\/p>\n

They are now listed by UEFA as a Europa League side and appearing on The Rest Is Football, Parish hinted at their involvement in the decision.<\/p>\n

Gary Lineker suggested: “Forgive me, I’m not quite sure how these things work, but Nottingham Forest played a part in this.<\/p>\n

“Because obviously they’ve benefitted from it, because they’ve moved out from Conference League qualification to now being in the Europa League.”<\/p>\n

“So, we were told that, and I think it’s been made public… ” Parish said.<\/p>\n

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“I mean basically, these things seem to be played out in public, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of confidentiality that comes out of certain organisations. But we’re led to believe that that’s the issue. <\/p>\n

“If there wasn’t somebody that wanted to get in as a consequence, then there wouldn’t be a problem.”<\/p>\n

Parish added: “People have got to look at themselves in terms of what they do. Some people will say it’s fine, some people will say it’s not, I don’t really have control of that. <\/p>\n

“I only have control of the arguments that we put forward to UEFA.”<\/p>\n

“I think it does look bad,” he also said. “Because I think for smaller clubs like us, we’re a medium-sized club, let’s say, this is the dream.<\/p>\n

“This is what keeps football alive, this is why everybody goes because they think one day they might win a cup and as a consequence, they might qualify for Europe.<\/p>\n

“People are saying, ‘You’re in the Conference League, that’s fine.’ If you win the Europa League, you get into the Champions League.<\/p>\n

“These can be defining moments for football clubs and completely change the course of history forever for you as a club.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Led to believe that’s the issue’ Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish has suggested that Nottingham Forest contributed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[161,102,180,9310,21116,748,9029,885,1925,393,11817,1625,4884,1860,179,886,36757,3047,178,101,79596,36755,79595,43147,11813,21114,11812,36756,11811,11815,9431,11814,2958,201,16,15,1927,5774],"class_list":{"0":"post-271177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-aston-villa","10":"tag-bournemouth","11":"tag-brentford","12":"tag-brighton-hove-albion","13":"tag-britain","14":"tag-burnley","15":"tag-chelsea","16":"tag-crystal-palace","17":"tag-england","18":"tag-everton","19":"tag-fulham","20":"tag-great-britain","21":"tag-leeds","22":"tag-liverpool","23":"tag-manchester-city","24":"tag-manchhester-united","25":"tag-newcastle-united","26":"tag-nottingham-forest","27":"tag-premier-league","28":"tag-premier-league-2025-26","29":"tag-premier-league-blog","30":"tag-premier-league-fixture-release-day","31":"tag-premier-league-fixtures","32":"tag-premier-league-latest","33":"tag-premier-league-latest-news","34":"tag-premier-league-live","35":"tag-premier-league-live-blog","36":"tag-premier-league-news","37":"tag-premier-league-transfer-news","38":"tag-premier-league-transfers","39":"tag-premier-league-updates","40":"tag-sunderland","41":"tag-tottenham-hotspur","42":"tag-uk","43":"tag-united-kingdom","44":"tag-west-ham","45":"tag-wolves"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}