Porto Not Out of the CL just yet.
By: Rob | June 13th, 2008
After standing up to FC Porto and kicking them out of the Champions League, UEFA has decided to annull that descion and start again.
After the Portugese club appealed, Uefa’s apeeal’s body sent the issue back for consideration, meaning that the descion to kick them out of the next edition of the Champions League was completely meaningless and a new descion will be made. This doesn’t mean that Porto will for sure be in the Champions League, but it does mean that stand a much better chance than they did a couplde of days ago.
A Porto director summed it up thus :
The result of the meeting was that the June 4 decision was annulled, but it will return to consider the issue from scratch
Porto were intially kicked out of the Champions League due to the ‘Golden Whistle’ scandal, which involved the fixing of matches a few years ago. While a league matter, the Portuguese FA docked Porto a measely 5 five points (cowardly when Porto were already 20 points out in front – they still won the league at a canter) and gave them a tiny fine. UEFA then decided to take it into thier own hands.
Its interesting that this story break now – Yesterday I bought you news that UEFA was really going to crack down on this kind of thing, by kicking out Steaua. CSKA Sofia have also had to forfeit thier Champions League place, as they could not meet the BFU’s Licensing Commission conditions.
So it seemed that UEFA were going to clear this all up. But they’ve gone back to square one with Porto. Don’t be it be said that the reason Porto are getting a second hearing is because they are a fairly big club who have history in this competition though. That would be absurd.
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