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Posted this on another thread, should really be here too:



DevAdvocate said:
This puts an entirely different light on what actually happened:

In other words, instead of having a 24 man squad Berg and Legia decided 25 men would be better. If UEFA ignored that they would be giving Carte Blanche for every team to do the same. The whole point of player Bans in Europe is to punish the Club by reducing the available squad pool of the offending team.
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DevAdvocate said:
I read somewhere that Celtic had to make an official complaint for any action to be taken, I don't actually know if it's true but these cretins have obviously read it and taken it as gospel. Personally I can't see any reason why Celtic would have to lodge a complaint if the rules were broken. That's the sort of **** the SFA would come up with.
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VenomPD said:
Celtic would be ****ing stupid not to complain if they knew about it. It's as simple as that, pragmatism comes first.
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DevAdvocate said:
It's a blatant lie as it turns out:


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Note the difference in wording between Rules 1 & 3 here. Legia come under 1, Debrecen came under 3.

SO Celtic did not have to protest, UEFA made the simple decision on their own.
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Pricy147 said:
Nice loophole - so next time a team wins a first leg 4-0, and is losing 5-0 in the return leg - they can field an ineligible player so that UEFA apply their 'standard' 3-0 score line - and therefore promote that team through to the next round (despite the fact they would have lost had they not fielded the ineligible player).

Do you honestly believe this is coincidence!?

There are backhanders going on somewhere - either that are UEFA are a complete bunch of incompetent fools.
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No, the rules also specifically dont allow this - perhaps you should have a read of them, it will help you to express an informed opinion <ok>
 
Loads of comments from fans, pros and officials saying Celtic should have refused reinstatement.

UEFA applied their rules...what are Celtic to do, piss of UEFA, and refuse.Aye,UEFA would love that - two clubs not following their rules.

Also fans saying they should refuse <laugh>&#8230;aye, wait till happens.
 
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Legia are claiming we could have let them back in but chose not to. Wonder if they'd be so magnanimous if the shoe was on the other foot?

I can tell you one thing, for all the ****e we have to deal with as Celtic fans there is not a snowballs chance in Hell that we would make that mistake.
 
pud said:
Loads of comments from fans, pros and officials saying Celtic should have refused reinstatement.

UEFA applied their rules...what are Celtic to do, piss of UEFA, and refuse.Aye,UEFA would love that - two clubs not following their rules.

Also fans saying they should refuse &#8230;aye, wait till happens.
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No club in the World would have knocked reinstatement back.
 
VenomPD said:
Legia are claiming we could have let them back in but chose not to. Wonder if they'd be so magnanimous if the shoe was on the other foot?

I can tell you one thing, for all the ****e we have to deal with as Celtic fans there is not a snowballs chance in Hell that we would make that mistake.
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We don't deserve to be there on footballing merit but as I said yesterday a football club is more than just the 11 players on the pitch and the results they garner.

Doesn't matter if it's a player who is breaking UEFA's rules or some plum in the admin department they are all part of the club.
 
VenomPD said:
We don't deserve to be there on footballing merit but as I said yesterday a football club is more than just the 11 players on the pitch and the results they garner.

Doesn't matter if it's a player who is breaking UEFA's rules or some plum in the admin department they are all part of the club.
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Except at Rangers.
 
We certainly don't deserve to be there on sporting merit, but unfortunately it's all about the money these days and any business would be mental to hand back a £20m windfall.
 
i am just listening to the clyde podcast from friday night bfdj absolutely beelin. even quoting the debrecen point. you would think that if you were going to say something on air you would make sure it is correct, then again he is a ****ing spastic
 
MalteseMick said:
We certainly don't deserve to be there on sporting merit, but unfortunately it's all about the money these days and any business would be mental to hand back a £20m windfall.
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No club would turn their noses up at an opportunity to make money in a similar situation.

The idiots who are suggesting that Celtic should have forfeited this Get out of Jail Free card would probably as soon tell you they would not accept a penalty awarded to them if it was not actually a penalty, or a goal awarded when the ball never crossed the line. It's fanciful, bullshit, rhetoric, which does not bear scrutiny.
 
MalteseMick said:
We certainly don't deserve to be there on sporting merit, but unfortunately it's all about the money these days and any business would be mental to hand back a £20m windfall.
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it's a mute point anyway, if you said to UEFA no we are not going through they would not then put legia through. they would simply put maribor through as a bye and celtic would be ****ed off out of europe as legia would be in the europa league.
 
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