Sion President Christian Consantin has lost a court case against UEFA Secretary Gianni Infantino and claimed that the footballing authorities are running a totalitarian state.
UEFA will decided on Tuesday if Sion are kicked out of the Europa League for fielding ineligible players including Pascal Feindouno who scored twice against Celtic.
Constantin has stepped up his offensive against the game’s powerbrokers since Thursday’s win over Celtic but has had a claim that a letter from Secretary Infantino.
The UEFA Secretary outlined to the Swiss FA that if they failed to implement the FIFA ban the national side could be kicked out of the Euro 2012 qualifiers and all Swiss clubs removed from UEFA competitions.
A Swiss judge threw out Constantin’s claim against the ‘threatening’ letter but the Sion chief was unrepentant as he prepared for his side getting kicked out of the Europa League after being drawn with Athletico Madrid, Udinese and Rennes
He warned: “With the threat of exclusion, they have set extortionate under duress- this is a characteristic of totalitarian regimes.
“A law professor who filed the lawsuit in Neuchâtel. Let’s see what the general secretary says if they are interrogated by the police.”
On Friday Michel Platini spoke out against Sion fielding ineligible players with Constantin quick to respond.
The Sion president accused his UEFA counterpart with: “I expect everything, including the worst he says. If Platini looks at the record I don’t see how he can attack us- they are forced to cobble alibis together.”
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im actually starting to hate this team as much as the h*ns, just the shear cheek! they actually remind me of martin bain when he accused uefa’s fan ban as targetting them specifically for no reason. Sion, when will you accept that you DELIBERATELY BROKE THE RULES and have been doing it for 3 or 4 years! you break the rules, you get punished, no other way roonit!!
Let’s forget about this we got beat end of story let’s keep our dignity.
As much as being put into the EL would be papering over the seemingly larger cracks than we were aware of, this can only be good for Celtic. Especially as it is clear that balance sheets and not success is the objective to the current board. Rumour has it some Russian side to offer £7M for Ki
Sion will get put out,thats 100%, dont give it a second thought. We can get ourselves organised and have a go at the Europa again. NL built this team, there has been a fair amount of turmoil and injuries, but he will sort it out. We are only as good as the players we have, we cant afford to spend a lot of money so we have to run with it, The SPL compares with the Championship now and that wont change for as long time. The board need to spend on a striker though otherwise it starts to get ridiculous and the fans will turn off, thats another 100%