Palace kicked out of the Europa League to the Conference League because their previous owner fucked up some paperwork around multi-club ownership, to be replaced by Nottingham Forest (who also have a multi-club owner, just one that apparently can fill in forms correctly).
Multi-club ownership is a fucking scourge, and the rules daft. RB Salzburg and Leipzig were in the same group last year!
Feel for the Palace fans.
It is rough on them, I'm sure they're gutted but they'll now be one of the favourites to win the Conference which would still be an incredible journey. Still a tough one to take given it is Lyon who are in financial trouble and Palace have been one of the best run clubs for quite a while now.