“It was a very bitter day because you want this to happen on the pitch not by two or three people behind a table having to make this decision. There are winners and losers and in particular for thelosers it was a very very bad day so we feel sad. We feel sad that we had to come to such a decision, we sympathize a lot with those clubs and their supporters. At the same time, there was no wayround it.”

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