Dom

[Huddersfield Town @htafc]

Ryan Ledson. Take a bow 😱

#htafc

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Yeah, call it off, this may be the best football song I’ve ever heard. Absolutely top tier. 😂🫡

Cheers to @ScottyNUFC87 & @j3nko_74 for the video with the full wording.

[Lionesses @Lionesses]

WE'RE BACK-TO-BACK EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS!! 🏆

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Watch this. Drink it in. Magnificent. What a sport.

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

I wrote this out a week or so ago as a full on explainer of Palace’s POV over all of this, in case UEFA decided to demote us or kick us out of Europe altogether, given how many neutrals are likely to see the decision and then ask for the intricacies of it all.

It’s Palace’s perspective, I’m not saying that UEFA are right or wrong before bundles of neutrals get on my case, it really is just an explainer in the most thorough way I can manage on here.

Cheers.

Shares weren’t placed into Blind Trust because John Textor never had decisive control.

He has spoken openly on many occasions about Parish being the man who calls the shots at Palace well before this issue became newsworthy.

If Textor did have anything like “decisive control”, it’s fair to assume that we would be in just as much of a financial hole as every other club he gets his hands on. In reality, Palace are prudently run and have always remained comfortably inside PSR regulations, whilst Lyon’s debt has increased alarmingly throughout Textor’s time at the helm.

Given he had clear and decisive control of Lyon without any ambiguity; why weren’t his shares in the French club placed into Blind Trust?

The Deadline for putting shares in Blind Trust was July 1st until this year; why would you move that to March 1st when the season was still in full swing?

We were playing Millwall in the Round of 16 on the day of the March deadline; it’s hardly as if we were on the verge of winning the first major trophy in our entire history. We had to beat Fulham (A) + Villa and Man City at Wembley to get there from that point.

Lyon only got into the Europa League on the final day of the season thanks to a 99th minute Le Havre equaliser at Strasbourg which elevated Lyon into their Europa League spot on GD; it’s hardly as if this was a likely scenario back in late February.

John Textor had been actively trying to sell his stake in Palace for well over 18 months prior to the Blind Trust deadline, simply because he had no tangible influence behind the scenes and grew extremely frustrated at running into a brick wall time and time again.

His aim had always been to bring us into his multi-club model alongside Lyon, Botafogo and Molenbeek only to be told repeatedly that the other members of our board had no interest in such a shift of strategy.

The only piece of business done between the two clubs throughout John Textor’s time on either board was the sale of a fringe first-team player in Jake O’Brien (who made 0 Premier League appearances for Palace) to Lyon in the summer of 2023.

John Textor has now agreed to a sale of his shares in Palace to American Woody Johnson, meaning that with Premier League approval, there is zero tangible link between Textor and the club.

John Textor has also stepped down from his role as the head of Lyon with Michelle Kang taking his place, meaning that by the time the Europa League draw is made, the man UEFA are seemingly worried about having influence will not be involved in the decision making process at either club in any sense, decisive or otherwise.

Lyon were initially relegated to Ligue 2 by the DNCG after accumulating more than €500m of debt and being warned back in November of 2024 that they needed to get their house in order by June of 2025.

Following the call to relegate them, they were given a 2 week period to get their house in order, removing John Textor from the position at the head of the hierarchy and injecting further funds into the club, despite little to no sign that it’s anything other than a plaster on a long-term gaping wound.

With French football in a major mess in terms of TV contracts and general interest in Ligue 1, there was a widespread desire from stakeholders outside of the Lyon bubble to ensure that they were reinstated to the top tier, future proofing the league as a whole from further drop offs in interest rather than dishing out appropriate punishments for financial mismanagement on a major scale.

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

“What is the charge? Winning a trophy? A succulent European trophy?”

[Huddersfield Town @htafc]

✍️ We are delighted to confirm the appointment of Lee Grant as Manager of Huddersfield Town!

💬 Comments from Chairman Kevin Nagle and Manager Lee Grant ⤵️

Let's get to work, Lee 👊

#htafc

[Still Smiling: A Huddersfield Town Podcast #htafc @stillsmilingpod]

📅 #OnThisDay: 9 May 2018

Huddersfield Town retain their Premier League status thanks to Laurent Depoitre's goal and Jonas Lossl's last-gasp save ⚽️

What a night in London! 💙🤍

#htafc

[Dom @Dom_htafc]

What a fucking save

[Padraig 🏆 @calafiorivertz]

there’s no fucking way #vardy

[Huddersfield Town @htafc]

12 years.
12 seasons.
409 appearances.

Here. There. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.

𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆'𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝑱𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝑯𝒐𝒈𝒈.

#ThankYouHoggy | #htafc

[Huddersfield Town @htafc]

Jonathan Hogg will make his final appearance for the Club as we bring our 2024/25 season to a close at the John Smith’s Stadium on Saturday 3 May vs Leyton Orient 💙

💬 Comments from Chairman Kevin Nagle ⤵️

Thank you for everything, skipper 🫡

#ThankYouHoggy | #htafc

[Huddersfield Town @htafc]

Huddersfield Town can confirm that Mark Cartwright has today been relieved of his duties as Sporting Director.

Comments from CEO Jake Edwards ⤵️

#htafc

[Kevín @KevOnStage]

Mans not hot.

[BenHtafc17 @BenHtafc17]

David Wagner X Holding Out for a Hero

#htafc @KevinNagleMLS

[Formula 1 @F1]

BREAKING: Cadillac confirmed as 11th team on the 2026 F1 grid

#F1

[Freddie Cardy @CardyFreddie]

In a weekend of interesting refereeing performances, Watford Women vs Lewes might be the most remarkable. Never seen highlights like this 😅

https://t.co/QmR4E3vVw2

[The Exiled Robin @TheExiledRobin]

Can’t imagine too many teams have lost consecutive games to injury time goals from the same striker at two different clubs before

[PDC Darts @OfficialPDC]

HEROIC HETA HITS THE NINE! 🔥

UNBELIEVABLE SCENES! 🤯

Damon Heta lands the second nine-darter of the tournament to raise the roof at Alexandra Palace!

#WCDarts