It doesn't appear to be, no. They quoted rule J.3.1, which is about covid: https://documents.uefa.com/r/Regula.../22/J.3-Testing-and-player-eligibility-Online They seem to have found us at fault for having a covid outbreak and Rennes being ****ers.
As I understand it we legitimately had the game postponed and have made every effort to get it played, including offering to fly to France to fulfil the fixture at a day’s notice last week. It’s a disappointing decision but not the end of the world.
We should do it. I can't see us being reinstated but if we could get some financial redress and sort out the damage to our co-efficient, it's worth a go.
You may say that we shouldn't be interested in a 3rd tier competition; You may say that we played so badly in the competition we didn't deserve to progress (probably true); but That must be separated from what UEFA (and Rennes) have done here, which is to get us thrown out of the competition for reasons beyond our control. So irrelevant of what you felt about the first two conditions above, what has been done to us on principle is simply WRONG. Not only have they set a precedent (which you can be sure they won't follow when it suits them), but they have devalued their own competition by eliminating a club for reasons other than on field performance. (And before you say we should already have had the points in the bag that is true, but at the time of the decision by UEFA we had not been eliminated by on field performance.) You can be sure they wouldn't have done this to Barca or one of their favourites, be sure they wouldn't do it if the same thing happens in future, and be also sure that the sports media would be all over this if they had (probably replacing the non-story about Kane's "red card").
No, I don't think that is correct...cos UEFA gave us a chance to rearrange it which wouldn't happen if we'd cancelled it by breaking the rules. It wasn't rearranged cos Rennes said they had no dates available. Might be wrong but that's my understanding of it.
That's what I love about this group. How many other PL team groups could you get to discuss great airship disasters? Anyway, has anyone seen the airship sheds at Cardington? Quite impressive bits of engineering.
Mail owner Lord Rothermere was a great Mosley supporter and there are numerous pictures of him with Hitler but the same could be said for certain members of the royal family
In the 90s I did some maintenance on equipment in the sheds and got the behind the scenes tour , very impressive structures built in 1915 for the R-31 and R-32 airships
