wolfie Posted March 14, 2008 Report Share Posted March 14, 2008 Gary Megson has made it clear that staying in the Premier League is far more important than winning the UEFA Cup. I presume it must come down to money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayC Posted March 14, 2008 Report Share Posted March 14, 2008 Wolfie. I would go for option b winning the champs league and not finishing in the top 4 purely because of the silver and also becuase the winner now automatically gets back in to the group stages. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayC Posted March 14, 2008 Report Share Posted March 14, 2008 Wolfie. I would go for option b winning the champs league and not finishing in the top 4 purely because of the silver ware and also becuase the winner now automatically gets back in to the group stages. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted March 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2008 You are correct JayC, I have just checked on who qualifies for the Champions League and found out that when Liverpool cheated Everton out of a place in the cup, that they also forced a rule change and now winners automatically go through at the expense of the fourth side, who go into the UEFA Cup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayC Posted March 14, 2008 Report Share Posted March 14, 2008 Wolfie. Facts matey please Everton had to qualify as the 4th place team , Liverpool had to prequalify 3 games before Everton needed to kick a ball. Now surely we wont our top 4 teams in the competion and cleary Everton where not up to the job after failing to get into the group stages. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgusted Posted March 14, 2008 Report Share Posted March 14, 2008 Originally posted by wolfie: Gary Megson has made it clear that staying in the Premier League is far more important than winning the UEFA Cup. I presume it must come down to money. As a ST holder, very very disappointed with the attitude shown in both the UEFA & FA Cups under Megson. He's done a great job sorting out the mess left behind by Norman Wisdom, but is dropping virtually every first tema player against Sheff Utd & Sporting really going to help in the relegation battle? There seems to be far far too much emphasis on players being "rested" in order to be fit for a such and such a game nowadays. Surely if Bolton had sent a full strength team last night and won (Sporting were clearly there for the taking) the boost to morale would have given them a much bigger boost for Sunday surely, than missing what would have been one of the bigest games of some of the player's careers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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