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Benny The Noon » Wed Apr 03, 2013 12:55 pm wrote:No it wouldn't

The runner up in the FA Cup gets it hence why Stoke got into Europe when they were beaten in the FA Cup final

They only way that 6th gets it is if Chelsea also fail to get into CL whilst winning the FA Cup

friendlyguy33 » Sun Apr 07, 2013 7:25 pm wrote:

Benny The Noon » Wed Apr 03, 2013 12:55 pm wrote:No it wouldn't

The runner up in the FA Cup gets it hence why Stoke got into Europe when they were beaten in the FA Cup final

They only way that 6th gets it is if Chelsea also fail to get into CL whilst winning the FA Cup

Unless sixth gets the nod over Wigan/Millwall should either side lose in the FA Cup Final.

Reg » Fri Mar 29, 2013 2:36 pm wrote:'Pressure of top-four target too much for Liverpool' says club's psychiatrist Steve Peters
Thursday 28 March 2013
     
The sports psychiatrist who has been employed by Liverpool to replicate the methods which have played a huge part in British Cycling's Olympic success has urged the club to make a Premier League title or top-four finish an aspiration rather than a concrete goal.

In his first public discussion of his role working with the Liverpool manager, Brendan Rodgers, Dr Steve Peters told The Independent that 10 players have sought him out and that he believes the 23-man first-team squad will only heap unnecessary pressure on themselves by targeting a specific league position – or deciding how much longer they must wait to clinch the title which has become an Anfield obsession in the 23 years since the club last won one.

"A goal is something you must be able to control and you can't control [your place] in the league," Peters said. "It depends on how others play, not just you. You always like to influence things and influence as much as you can but accept that most things in life are a dream. They're not guaranteed to happen."

Peters, the Sheffield University scientist who was hired last October to work a day per week with Liverpool and was subsequently also appointed to work for UK Athletics with performance director Neil Black, said that his role in football created tougher challenges than those he encountered at UK Cycling, including the need to get a majority of the players to work with him. "If I go to a team with 10 people and only five work with me then I am absolutely limited in what I can do with the team," Peters said. "The [Liverpool] players are trickling in one at a time, gaining benefit, buying in and feeling it can work for them. But it has to be on an individual basis."

The 59-year-old does not view his role as one of inculcating a team ethic at Anfield. "From my perspective in sport I am not sure that's the psych's job," he said. "It is indirectly but I think the manager is the key person."

Reg » Mon Apr 08, 2013 5:24 am wrote:Its a load of pap isn't it mate, they're paid 100k a week and pooh themselves when they walk onto the field.

If they paid 11 lads out of the Kop 50 quid each, they'd chase the opposition down the tunnel within 5 minutes.....

Confidence.... its all in the mind.