If Liverpool win the Europa final and have qualified for the Europa for next year already, that place gets converted to a Champions League spot and 7 teams qualify for Europe. (5 CL & 2 EL)
If they win the Europa and haven't qualified for Europa for next season then they will get a Champions League place and none of the teams who have qualified for Europe already will lose their places. So 8 teams will be there next season (5 CL & 3 EL)
If we win Sunday then we get 3 shots at a Europa place:
Bournemouth win
West Ham draw/lose
United win the cup
We'd be very unlucky if none of those happened.
Gotta be odds on now.
Was going by this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_national_under-21_football_team
Recent call ups by players from: Angers, Strasbourg, Sedan, Le Havre, FC Nantes, Caen - All Ligue 2
There are numerous players in the French U21 squad currently playing in Ligue 2 in France, I'd say English League One this year is a higher standard than that League.
Just for the record Tony Cascarino is still one and two in the most goals scored per season chart for the past 28 years in that league!
I rest my case.
I'm here too. Living in Kildare. I remember saints playing a pre-season game against St.Pats, must be around 15 years ago. Lost 2-1 I seem to recall. Don't think they've been over since.
So it's:
1. Man City (15 billion)
2. QPR (14.9 billion)
3. Chelsea (7 billion)
4. Arsenal (3.74 billion)
5. Saints (2.7 billion)
That sounds good to me! Does this mean we'll be able to hold onto our academy players from now on?