Merely an expectation Top 4 = CL football, hence the reason that happened. You didn’t qualify and UEFA made an exception as a direct result.
Who’s got the 2004/5 season PL rulebook to hand you desperate meff If it wasn’t a rule, then why didn’t UEFA simply force the FA to nominate Liverpool at our expense?
Beat me to it. There was no prior, written referenced rule, as there was in the case of the UEFA one quoted in the article. And that's exactly what Barwick said at the time, but excused by saying there was an 'Expectation' that the top four teams would qualify.
UEFA didn't think any football association would be so stupid they would need to be overruled. They obviously underestimated the FA's bias and tried to reach a diplomatic solution before immediately rewriting the rules for the next season to prevent the FA being so corrupt again.
#summary Tobes: "The PL had a rule" #backpedal Tobes: "The FA had a rule" #backpedal Tobes: "The FA had an unwritten rule"
You've looked but you can't find it, can you? So they 'Literally' didn't change any rule to let is in, but they ****ing ensured to change the law for future seasons so that the FA wouldn't have it in their hands to not do what the one RULE on the subject wanted them to do.
So why did they have to make a special rule for you then? All about sporting merit of the current season mate, that's what you have said
You said the rules were rewritten - but you can't even quote the rule that you said was re-written (and neither could Barwick at the time, or explain why they had told Chelsea and Arsenal to expect differently the year before). The only rule that was 're-written' was to ensure that in FUTURE seasons no FA would ever be so ineptly corrupt again. And the way you airily waffle about how the FA went against what it had told Chelsea and Arsenal the year before is another example of you just trying to win an argument with bogus, spurious legalspeak that you're no more qualified to put up than Diego is on the maintenance, refitting and geography of nuclear submarines, I'm afraid. You have absolutely no more ****ing idea as to why the FA took that advice down than anyone, given that UEFA had undoubtedly bestowed upon them the legal power to drop any team they wanted to into the UEFA Cup as they had done with Zaragoza in 2000. But go on then, Petrocelli like, give us your learned opinion on how you'd go about suing the FA and UEFA in 2005 had they dropped you into the UEFA Cup and put Liverpool in your stead, given the only written rule on the subject was the one quoted from UEFA.
****ing ace when he's rat-arsed again. He forgets what he said two posts ago, never mind on the previous page.
Think the only embarrassing that happened after that is that Everton never got passed the qualifiers anyway...
So we 'aren't that good', but we're 25 points ahead of the league? Oh dear.... you been tucking into the 8 Ace again?
