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Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish blasts UEFA as 'the greatest enemy to domestic leagues' and accuses its president Aleksander Ceferin of 'picking the pockets' of non-elite teams as he calls for more regulation and Europe's clubs to run their own compe

Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish has described UEFA as 'the greatest enemy to domestic leagues' and accused president Aleksander Ceferin of 'picking the pockets' of non-elite clubs.

It came after Ceferin fired a salvo at Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus as they attempt to resurrect the idea of a breakaway European Super League.

Ceferin accused the ringleaders of 'living in a parallel world' and using the cover of the Russian invasion of Ukraine to relaunch a competition that collapsed last year.

But Parish hit out at UEFA, Ceferin and the powerful European Club Association [ECA] while calling for Europe's clubs to run the competitions and a regulator to keep UEFA in check.