Because football doesn't follow those rules.
Yes, we would be better equipped, but we could just as easily lose or draw matches, with or without them...and have done.
If we're in a fight for 4th or 5th, I'll eat my hat. If we managed to get our whole squad to full fitness, I'd still eat my hat.
I predict 8th, and hopefully a good run in Europe.
As for the FA Cup? Meh.
Quite so, and all these "what if's" and "should haves" and "could haves" are simply pie in the sky.
No results are nailed-on in this League, as nearly proven by Luton, today.
Lovely to see Chelsea and West Ham lose, though. :)