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Posted by InterMilan31 on Apr-27-2005 21:41:

Liverpool obviously!

How can a team that finished fourth challenge the law with a team that one the Champions League. Finishing fourth is not that great to begin with.....


Posted by noikeee on Apr-27-2005 21:56:

if it was agreed at the start of the season that the holders won't get a place then logically everton it is

but if nothing was agreed i have to agree that the holders should have the priority. winning a champions league is a bigger argument than placing 4th on a national league. besides since i remember every year the CL winner gets a place for the following year, so it's no more than a (good) tradition, i remember people getting all pissed when uefa got the 2nd placed into the CL so why shouldn't people get pissed with a 4th placed team, and prefer the CL winners?

and i'm actually kinda supporting everton now as i'm managing them on FM


Posted by fastmp3 on Apr-27-2005 22:10:

quote:
Originally posted by sector.30
Everton have played consistently well this season despite losing Rooney and then Gravesen, Taha: Fuck off, you are gay.



fuck off mate bloody wanker


Posted by RubiK Cube on Apr-27-2005 23:36:

quote:
Originally posted by paranoik0
besides since i remember every year the CL winner gets a place for the following year, so it's no more than a (good) tradition

The reason for this is that every team that has won the CL so far has also finished in a CL qualify position within their league, so the problem has never risen before.


Posted by raveed on Apr-28-2005 01:58:

quote:
Originally posted by RubiK Cube
The reason for this is that every team that has won the CL so far has also finished in a CL qualify position within their league, so the problem has never risen before.


real madrid won the champions league in 2000 but finished 5th in la liga with zaragoza finishing 4th ... real madrid ended up getting the nod to play next year ...


Posted by Dj Smitty20 on Apr-28-2005 07:44:

quote:
Originally posted by InterMilan31
Liverpool obviously!

How can a team that finished fourth challenge the law with a team that one the Champions League. Finishing fourth is not that great to begin with.....


what law? There is no rule for defending champions! You just don't start changing rules because the (possible but unlikely) defending champions didn't play well enough in their own league to warrant a spot in the next CL!


Posted by noikeee on Apr-28-2005 09:30:

quote:
Originally posted by RubiK Cube
The reason for this is that every team that has won the CL so far has also finished in a CL qualify position within their league, so the problem has never risen before.


i was talking about the old champions cup days, where only the national champion qualified, and im sure there was quite a few situations when the european champion didnt win the national league. didnt knew about the real madrid situation, but it doesnt come as a surprise to me


Posted by RubiK Cube on Apr-28-2005 10:54:

quote:
Originally posted by raveed
real madrid won the champions league in 2000 but finished 5th in la liga with zaragoza finishing 4th ... real madrid ended up getting the nod to play next year ...

Really? Ah they must have been talking about it in the context of the EPL or just shoddy journalism!


Posted by Michael19 on Apr-28-2005 17:04:

quote:
Originally posted by Dj Smitty20
what law? There is no rule for defending champions! You just don't start changing rules because the (possible but unlikely) defending champions didn't play well enough in their own league to warrant a spot in the next CL!



FA rules dont say 4th place is guranteed to be the champions league. IF the FA wanted, they could pick the 3 relegated teams to go to the champions league.


Posted by gatecrasher on Apr-28-2005 21:27:

The winner of any trophy should automatically be able to defend their trophy


Posted by raveed on Apr-28-2005 23:03:

quote:
Originally posted by gatecrasher
The winner of any trophy should automatically be able to defend their trophy


i beg to differ .... a team should never be given automatic qualification should they win a championship ... look at france in world cup 98 ... and its worse with clubs what if liverpool were to lose steven gerrard next season and not able to find a suitable replacement .. they wouldnt be as effective in the CL would they? and the leeds situation how their fortunes changed in just one season .. nope a team should always need to qualify to avoid situations such as this one ...and all football leagues should make a clear rule on who will get the nod should such a situation arise in the future ... they are idiots for not doing so already given that its already happened i think it benefits the big clubs ... not that i should complain considering i support one but its always nice to see a surprise package among the big guns you see all the time


Posted by raveed on Apr-30-2005 22:15:

good to hear that the FA did the right thing and ruled that the team finishing fourth will go through to the champions league .. pressures on liverpool now


Posted by InterMilan31 on Apr-30-2005 22:54:

How about neither getting in their both a bunch of chav clubs


Posted by Kato on May-01-2005 01:03:

If Liverpool win they must have the chance to defend their trophy. It will devalue the competition if they can't.


Posted by tall paul 2 on May-01-2005 10:20:

quote:
Originally posted by raveed
good to hear that the FA did the right thing and ruled that the team finishing fourth will go through to the champions league .. pressures on liverpool now


Source??

From what ive heared the FA havent made a decision yet on whose going through, not until the situation occurs... which it probably wont, cos well make 4th yet!!!

A couple of years ago when real madrid won the champions league, they finished 5th in the league with Real Zarzoga (however its spelt) finishing above them. But the Spanish FA put Real into the competition and the 4th placed team into Europe. I dont see if we win the Champions League why the same shouldnt happen again.


Posted by raveed on May-01-2005 10:47:

quote:
Originally posted by tall paul 2
Source??

From what ive heared the FA havent made a decision yet on whose going through, not until the situation occurs... which it probably wont, cos well make 4th yet!!!

A couple of years ago when real madrid won the champions league, they finished 5th in the league with Real Zarzoga (however its spelt) finishing above them. But the Spanish FA put Real into the competition and the 4th placed team into Europe. I dont see if we win the Champions League why the same shouldnt happen again.


my bad, it was just a comment passed by uefa and they said thats wat the FA should do ...lol sorry for dashing your hopes there for a second

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/headli...=331979&cc=5901


Posted by tall paul 2 on May-01-2005 14:06:

From what ive understood, i think that UEFA have left the decision to the FA to make.. and the PREMIERSHIP want the final spot to go to the 4th placed team instead of Liverpool if they win...


Posted by Michael19 on May-01-2005 19:17:

quote:
Originally posted by InterMilan31
How about neither getting in their both a bunch of chav clubs



coming from an inter fan?!





Posted by techno_freak on May-02-2005 02:02:

red devils all the way


Posted by RubiK Cube on May-02-2005 12:12:

quote:
Originally posted by techno_freak
red devils all the way

Doesnt exactly concern them tho does it!


Posted by Kytracid on May-02-2005 20:05:

It's simple, really. IF liverpool defeat Chelsea, then go on to defeat what will in all eventualities be AC Milan in the finals, then YES - they should be allowed to defend their title. If Liverpool crash out of the CL, and Everton manage to hold onto 4th place, then without a doubt, Everton deserve to be in the CL next year.

All this talk about Everton being a mickeymouse team with no history is ridiculous. No body cares what a teams history is. The CL by definition doesn't make much sense when you have 4th top teams representing in a league that is only supposed to be for the champions. So please...nuff talk about how minnows like Everton don't have the pedigree to play with the big boys.

Everton have done well this season. Like Leeds a few years back, they deserve to be in the CL. I doubt they will even qualify, which in a way is bad -- but hell, they deserve the 10 million in TV revenue and gate fees for battling so well this year.

PS. Some people here need to stop talking -- and start watching some actual football.


Posted by RubiK Cube on May-02-2005 21:48:

One thing thta hasn't been mentioned is this is like 1985 all over again. Everton became the English champions but due to the events at the Heysel Stadium they were prevented from competing in the European Cup. When they won the league two years later the English teams were still banned.


Posted by Dj Smitty20 on May-05-2005 05:57:

quote:
Originally posted by RubiK Cube
One thing thta hasn't been mentioned is this is like 1985 all over again. Everton became the English champions but due to the events at the Heysel Stadium they were prevented from competing in the European Cup. When they won the league two years later the English teams were still banned.


Well that was the far too cruel reaction from Europe though. Everton fans have always been very well behaved. When they won the European Cup Winner's Cup in 1985 in Rotterdam, there was absolutely no trouble AT ALL. Then Liverpool fans (and the few English idiots as well as Italians who can incite a fight but then run when it's upon them) blew it for everyone. Yet punishing every single English team for 5 seasons was just retarded.


Posted by scAza on May-12-2005 14:33:

looks like we're both goin in now anyway but i voted Blues, coz even thought i'm a red, the original rules state the winners dont automatically qualify (althought UEFA can make exceptions, like Real a few yrs ago...), but 4th gets to the qualifiers automatically..


neither side is in yet tho, Everton still have to qualify and we still have to win it


Posted by scAza on May-12-2005 14:41:

quote:
Originally posted by RubiK Cube
One thing thta hasn't been mentioned is this is like 1985 all over again. Everton became the English champions but due to the events at the Heysel Stadium they were prevented from competing in the European Cup. When they won the league two years later the English teams were still banned.


this is nothing like that

Everton arent champions, they were 17th last year for fuck sake, they're hardly "THE DOMINATING TEAM OF ENGLISH FOOTBALL"

nobody is gettin cruely banned from Europe, and whtever happend, Everton will definately be given their qualifier spot...


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