Parish said.<\/a> \u201cIf there wasn\u2019t someone who wanted to get in as a consequence, then there wouldn\u2019t be a problem.<\/p>\n\u201cPeople have to look at themselves in terms of what they do. Some people say it\u2019s fine, some say it\u2019s not. I don\u2019t have control of that. I have control of the arguments we put forward to UEFA.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt does look bad. For smaller clubs like us, we\u2019re a medium-sized club. This is the dream. It\u2019s what keeps football alive. It\u2019s why everyone goes. One day, you might win a cup and qualify for Europe.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople say \u2018you\u2019re in the Conference League so that\u2019s fine\u2019, but if you win the Europa League you get into the Champions League. These can be defining moments for clubs and can completely change the course of a club\u2019s history forever. Football has to take a look at itself and decide what it wants. I am led to believe that there are forces that don\u2019t want the cup winners to get into that competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it is a mistake on so many levels because I do think football lives off the dream. There is a tail of supporters that support lots of clubs, and they think what goes on in these tournaments could one day be relevant to them. I think it goes back to the Super League \u2013 if people feel they are locked out of these competition,s then I think a lot of the broad interest in football could drain away.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe bottom line is we are not part of a multi-club, the person who was involved did not have decisive influence, there are many other legal points that we have got about the validity of the rule, the date, and the way it was communicated, and lots and lots of stuff. Hopefully, when we go to CAS, we will get the right answer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Several hundred Palace supporters marched half a mile to their Selhurst Park stadium on Tuesday evening in protest over the decision made by the CFCB to deny the club entry to the Europa League, with Parish having urged them to make their voices heard.<\/p>\n
Organised and led by the ultras group, the Holmesdale Fanatics (HF), they chanted against UEFA, Textor, and Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis before an impassioned speech was delivered from atop an entrance to the stadium with flares lit.<\/p>\n
The HF say they will be sending a delegation to UEFA\u2019s headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, to continue their protest and appeared to suggest that they will continue to make a stand against this perceived injustice.<\/p>\n
Palace, meanwhile, will continue to explore the formal avenues and have hired Swiss lawyers to make their case.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are still fighting,\u201d Parish said. \u201cThere\u2019s an appeal process, so we go to CAS which is the court for arbitration and, you know, we\u2019re very hopeful. We think we\u2019ve got great legal arguments.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t think this is the right decision by any means,\u201d Parish said. We know unequivocally that John didn\u2019t have decisive influence over the club. We know we proved that beyond all reasonable doubt because it\u2019s a fact.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are many legal points we have about the validity of the rule, the date and the way it was communicated. Hopefully, when we go to CAS we\u2019ll get the right answer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe legal fees are crazy. It\u2019s depressing about football. The amount of stuff that ends up in these places is bad for football. I hate that we are having to pursue things in this way. I think most fair minded people think it\u2019s the right thing that we go into the Europa League.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019d get the written ruling that we had last week, then the appeal is 10 days. The Conference League draw is in August. I think (UEFA president Aleksander) Mr Ceferin could resolve this situation and it would be a good look. As it stands, and this is maybe one of the problems, if you\u2019re not in UEFA\u2019s orbit you don\u2019t really know how any of it works.\u201d<\/p>\n
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