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Legia Warszawa kicked out of the Champions League!
quikzyyy 10 years ago Edited
Arsenal 429 9010

Celtic have been reinstated to the Champions League after Legia Warsaw were kicked out of the competition for fielding an ineligible player.

Legia won the third qualifying round tie 6-1 on aggregate but brought on Bartosz Bereszynski in the second leg, while he was supposed to be suspended.

As a result Celtic were handed a 3-0 'walkover' win for the second leg, taking them through on away goals.

The disciplinary board of European football's governing body Uefa confirmed that Bereszynski has also been hit with a further game's ban.

He was sent off in Legia's final Europa League tie last season against Apollon Limassol and received a three-match ban.
He missed the club's two-legged tie against St Patrick's Athletic in the second qualifying round and the 4-1 first-leg victory over Celtic.

However, it has emerged that Bereszynski was not registered in Legia's squad for the ties against the Dublin side and therefore the matches did not count towards his suspension.

Legia official Dominik Ebebenge said: "This is unjust and completely disproportionate." There have been similar cases in the past which have not punished in this way. This was just a basic human error."

We have spent eight years working towards this and now it has been taken away from us. Financially, it's unimaginable and the players are shattered."

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Celtic have been reinstated to the Champions League after Legia Warsaw were kicked out of the competition for fielding an ineligible player.

Legia won the third qualifying round tie 6-1 on aggregate but brought on Bartosz Bereszynski in the second leg, while he was supposed to be suspended.

As a result Celtic were handed a 3-0 'walkover' win for the second leg, taking them through on away goals.

The disciplinary board of European football's governing body Uefa confirmed that Bereszynski has also been hit with a further game's ban.

He was sent off in Legia's final Europa League tie last season against Apollon Limassol and received a three-match ban.
He missed the club's two-legged tie against St Patrick's Athletic in the second qualifying round and the 4-1 first-leg victory over Celtic.

However, it has emerged that Bereszynski was not registered in Legia's squad for the ties against the Dublin side and therefore the matches did not count towards his suspension.

Legia official Dominik Ebebenge said: "This is unjust and completely disproportionate.

"There have been similar cases in the past which have not punished in this way. This was just a basic human error.

"We have spent eight years working towards this and now it has been taken away from us. Financially, it's unimaginable and the players are shattered."

Comments
Lamps08 10 years ago
Chelsea, Poland 94 263

;( and this F*cken Celtic didn't deserve to go through Go Poland<3

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Emrecan_58 10 years ago
Besiktas 149 3376

This was so unfair. Legia deserved to go through and they were gonna be in the groups easily imo. They will still be in Europa League. Not as good and valuable as CL but they can show themselves there.

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tuan_jinn 10 years ago
Manchester United, Netherlands 198 6912

Celtic didn't DESERVE nothing... really really horrible and Legia Warszawa's management board was SO SO SO stupid to make such a mistake.... :(

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Tuanis 10 years ago
Manchester United, England 87 2311

It was unfair but the rules are the rules, they were stupid enough to deserve this...
and what on earth is wrong with Celtic? they used to play beautiful football.

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