[lfc-news] Time for action on Champions League conundrum - Echo

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Liverpool Echo, 22 April 2005
Time for action on Champions League conundrum
By David Prentice, Liverpool Echo

WHILE the Everton and Liverpool juggernauts career relentlessly on
towards a Champions League collision, the FA have adopted their usual
stance, heads down, oblivious or unconcerned by what's going on under
their noses.

Liverpool are now just three draws and a couple of successful penalty
shoot-outs away from becoming European champions.

Everton's stunning defeat of Manchester United has left them favourites
for fourth place in the Premiership - which gives the FA's chief
executive, dyed-in-the-wool Kopite Brian Barwick, a head-splitting dilemma.

Which club would represent the Premiership in the Champions League next
season?

The answer, surely, must be BOTH.

Now I do have some sympathy with the FA on this issue.

Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

But they are not helping themselves.

Rather than meet the problem head on, they are sitting tight like a
rabbit transfixed by headlights, hoping it doesn't happen.

They could always offer to make representations to UEFA now, citing the
special circumstances of Everton's unfair expulsion from Champions
League football in 1985 and 1987 and, even if they are beaten, at least
have shown a willingness to ensure that justice was belatedly done.

Or they could just cross their fingers and toes and hope for: a) Chelsea
to win the Champions League semi-final or b) Bolton or Liverpool to
finish fourth.

Neither paints them in a particularly impressive light here on Merseyside.

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