by ivor_the_injun » Fri May 06, 2005 3:52 pm
How hard would it be to just slot us back in at the qualifying stage for the CL next season if we win it this term? Obviously there'd need to be another team put in the comp to play against us, but surely they could just give one of the lesser leagues who aren't normally allocated that many CL places (Switzerland and Belgium for example) a bonus spot? They'd snatch their f*cking hands off for it, I'm sure.
And this whole rubbish about "oh, but the rules were there at the start of the season" is just rubbish. If it was Man U or Real Madrid in this situation, you just know that they'd bend over backwards for them. UEFA and the FA write the rule books that are apparently stopping this situation from being satisfactorily resolved, for god's sake, so why can't they just see sense and get it sorted?
Sometimes bureaucracy like this really is just incredibly stupid. Why do the organisations running football have to make matters like this run and run instead of doing the sensible thing? Yes, it's an exceptional set of circumstances, but surely exceptional circumstances justify an unprecedented course of action?