Crystal Palace delegation arrives at CAS to fight for Europa League return
Parish and Palace's lawyers have headed to Switzerland for their appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) which will be heard on Friday, after they were demoted to the Conference League for breaching European football governing body UEFA's multi-club ownership (MCO) rules.
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UEFA deemed the 43 per cent stake that Eagle Football, via its chairman John Textor, owned in Palace to be in conflict with Eagle's majority stake in French side Lyon after both clubs qualified for the Europa League.
Due to Lyon's higher domestic finish, they were permitted entry to UEFA's second tier competition and Palace denied. Nottingham Forest will take their place if the CAS appeal is unsuccessful, having been promoted from the Conference League.
A decision is due to be made on Monday, with Palace, who have hired Swiss lawyers to help their case, hopeful that they can overturn the decision which Parish described as 'a terrible injustice' based on 'the most ridiculous technicality you can imagine'.
They will present a small number of main arguments, conscious of the time restraints given that the hearing will take place over the course of a day. Those points will include the argument that they have been treated unfairly, which is anti-competitive given that UEFA regulations state that all clubs should be treated fairly.
Forest, too, will come into their arguments. Palace will make the claim that their fellow Premier League side are effectively in an MCO with Eagle Football's clubs, given their transfer dealings this summer in particular.
A further point of contention is what Palace believe is an inconsistency in the application of the rules. This has two strands to it, with the deadline of March 1 to put in place sufficient measures to avoid a breach of MCO rules not being applied evenly. They argue that trust documents make it clear the deadline for putting shares into a blind trust was actually April 30.
They argued in their hearing with UEFA last month that they do not believe Textor, who has now sold Eagle's Palace stake to New York Jets owner Woody Johnson, had decisive influence and putting shares into a blind trust when he was actively trying to sell them would not have been possible, it is the inconsistency in the rules that they are challenging.
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The second strand of the inconsistency argument is their belief that emails show that clubs which belonged to the European Club Association (ECA) were able to be walked through the process of avoiding a breach of MCO rules.
Palace will hope that these arguments are sufficient to sway the three-person panel at CAS and allow them to enter the competition for which they qualified by winning the FA Cup in May.
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