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Article: Football: Phoenix shot down by Premier League.(Sport)
- Article from:
- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- December 13, 2001
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THE Premier League last night overwhelmingly rejected any suggestion that Scottish giants Celtic and Rangers should be allowed to play in the top sphere of English football.
A meeting of the 20 clubs at their Connaught Place headquarters also decided that there will be no Premier League Two, alternatively entitled the Phoenix League.
Chief executive Richard Scudamore said: ''The Premier League can see no practical way nor any sound commercial reasons ...