Chapter 116: The End of the League (Part II)

PS1: Click here to collect and recommend, thank you......

PS2: This is Monday's update, so please forgive me if I'm late......

With the three teams in the relegation zone out of the way and Everton, who managed to get ashore with a narrow escape, let's take a look at the lucky ones who qualified for next season's UEFA Cup. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the FA Cup final has not yet begun, now that the fire of the Premier League has been completely extinguished, the three Confederations Cup places belonging to England have been basically decided - Millwall, Liverpool and Newcastle have become the final winners in this League Cup qualification battle, and have won a valuable European place!

By the way, if there were to be a selection of the 20 Premier League teams this season to choose which club is the best, most fans would definitely choose one of Bolton Wanderers and Newcastle.

The reason why Newcastle will also be among them is because the magpies, who won the third place in the Premier League under the leadership of Robson Sr. last season, have used their clumsy performance this season to perfectly illustrate what it means to be a pig-like teammate. The Magpies management led by Shepard crossed the river and demolished the bridge after the team qualified for the Champions League, accusing the old Robson of investing too much in the transfer market, but not bringing a championship trophy with sufficient weight; the young talents that the old Robson advocated for the introduction also began to disobey the discipline with Shepard's intentional connivance after playing the results, thinking that he didn't need an old man to dictate to him every day after his wings were hardened; even the Magpies fans also got the Champions League qualification after the team got Longwangshu, and put forward higher requirements for the old Robson!

not only asks the head coach to lead the team to achieve better results, but also does not want to give the opponent much real money to strengthen the squad, and always encourages the players and fans to do things behind their backs...... Shepard and the management of the Magpies have proved with a series of facts that there is no stupidest, only more stupid!

After all, not every manager has Arsene Wenger's ability to help the club make a profit by selling his main players in the transfer market each year, while also ensuring that the team will get a Champions League place at the end of the season.

So, leading such a troubled Newcastle side to a sixth place in the Premier League and a qualification for the UEFA Cup, Robson Sr. can actually be said to be quite remarkable.

It is for this reason that Newcastle are ranked as one of the most prestigious teams - they are clearly capable of qualifying for the Champions League, but they are naturally qualified to compete for this place because of the club's infighting and the brain-dead management of the club.

As for fifth-placed Liverpool, not many fans have lamented the Reds' league position this season. If it had been last season, the fans would have felt sorry for Liverpool somewhat. After all, Liverpool at that time had been the league leader for at least a while, but finally fell to the fifth place in the league due to the injury of the main players. And this season's Liverpool was left behind by the first group early from the beginning, or relied on a wave of explosion in the second half to rush to the fifth place in the league, and it can be called quite lucky to qualify for the League Cup, how can anyone feel pity for it?

The reason why fans chose Bolton Wanderers is because the club is so unlucky. Not to mention that because of historical problems, it is difficult for Bolton to recruit high-level local players. This season, for example, they managed to reach the final of the Carabao Cup under Sam Allardyce, but they met Tottenham in the final and lost to each other, unfortunately missing out on the trophy and only finishing as runners-up in the League Cup.

The worst thing is that, according to the relevant regulations of the FA, the winner of the League Cup and FA Cup is automatically eligible for a place in the League Cup. In the case of a team that has already qualified for the Champions League, the qualification for the UEFA Cup will not be replaced by the runners-up team as in the FA Cup, but will be transferred to a team that has won the top league table and has not qualified for Europe!

This means that Bolton, who finished runners-up in the League Cup but finished ninth in the league, will lose their qualification for next season's UEFA Cup! Millwall, who have already reached the FA Cup final, will be given a place in the UEFA Cup, regardless of the result.

Therefore, it is naturally not too controversial to list Bolton as the unluckiest Premier League club this season.

Naturally, Sam Allardyce was very dissatisfied with this result, and frequently fired at the FA, believing that this extremely unreasonable system should be changed. It's just that although Big Sam can be regarded as the number one person in the English coaching circle, in the eyes of the FA, he is still just a soft-spoken existence. Therefore, Allardyce's request was directly ignored by the FA and did not make a single wave at all.

Now let's take a look at the four teams that have qualified for next season's European Cup. Manchester United, who saw off David Beckham last summer and officially entered a rebuilding period, have achieved their lowest league position since the inception of the Premier League this season. Although a fourth-place finish in the league would guarantee Manchester United a Champions League place next season, Ferguson was extremely unhappy with this - after all, just missing Beckham, Manchester United fell from last season's league title to fourth, isn't this saying that his previous decision to sell Beckham was wrong?

For the good-faced Ferguson, this is something he absolutely cannot tolerate. As a result, the culprit that led to Manchester United's withdrawal from the championship race, Tim Howard, who made low-level mistakes in the second half of the season, fell into bad luck and was directly sent to the cold by Ferguson. If nothing else, unless Howard suddenly jumps into the ranks of the top goalkeepers, the American goalkeeper will never become Manchester United's first-choice goalkeeper again.

And Chelsea, who finished third in the Premier League this season, are not at ease at this time. While Claudio Ranieri led the Blues to their best top-flight result in nearly half a century, the third-place finish was not enough for Abramovich. Especially when Abbu witnessed George turn Tottenham Hotspur from a team that couldn't even enter the European competition to a Premier League runner-up, while Chelsea, who had a better background and invested more, ranked behind Tottenham in the league and was eliminated by Monaco in the Champions Cup, the Russian tycoon, who already felt that the tinkerer did not have the temperament of a giant manager, naturally felt that he was not trusting anyone.

Then, after leading Chelsea to defeat a dying Leeds United, Ranieri received a termination notice from Chelsea management, ending his four-year spell in charge of the Blues!