That’s not what you said yesterday at 8.50pm which is what I was responding to so hold back on the patronising tone. You are not the only one posting permutations on this thread.
You said this at 8.50pm on Sunday night after the weekend PL, which was the post I’ve been quoting; that Conference drops to 9th (not two games ago or what you copied from Dale Johnson previously). My reply was 4 hours later saying that was not the case…If I misunderstood your post and you meant to say 8th last night, then I do apologise.
Correct except it seems Chelsea have to finish 7th for 8th to become a Europa League spot. If the Conference League winners also qualify for the Europa League via their domestic league position, the place does not automatically get passed on. Instead, a club that's in the Europa League qualifying phase gets bumped up into the group stage based on its UEFA coefficient.
I give up trying to understand. Can someone let me know once Palace lose and we finish 8th please
You keep conveniently forgetting to quote the key part of that post, which was in response to someone who'd seen MOTD and queried the permutations that I'd outlined two games earlier. Along the lines of, "that's not what the BBC said last night"That’s not what you said yesterday at 8.50pm which is what I was responding to so hold back on the patronising tone. You are not the only one posting permutations on this thread.
You said this at 8.50pm on Sunday night after the weekend PL, which was the post I’ve been quoting; that Conference drops to 9th (not two games ago or what you copied from Dale Johnson previously). My reply was 4 hours later saying that was not the case…If I misunderstood your post and you meant to say 8th last night, then I do apologise.
Stop trying to confuse everything and turn it all into an endless argument though - we are obviously talking at cross purposes here!!
I’m am glad we are now on the same page and everyone agrees that there are no Premier League places in Europe below 8th whatever happens.
I feel your pain.
It hasn’t helped that the BBC threw a spanner in the works and confused everyone - until then the UEFA rules re ESP were seemingly consistently applied to all European competitions.
This small amendment to your original post pretty much does the job I reckon. Let's hope we're in a position to care
The league format and expansion of number of direct qualification places for the top leagues was something of an appeasement to the ensure presence of all these "big" clubs (Utd and Spurs' historically shit season excepted), and in more matches (read, more income) than the previous format.
