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Fenerbahce snubbed

THE Turkish Football Federation yesterday rejected a request by champion Fenerbahce to be allowed to play in a lower division amid a match-fixing investigation. The Istanbul club had asked on Friday to be allowed to play in the second-tier division, a day after the TFF rejected its appeal against its exclusion from this season's Champions League. Any decision to relegate a club once the season had begun would mean it would be in a lower division in the following season, lengthening the punishment period.



 

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