Platini Having Fun At Spurs Expense?

What happens if the FA Cup winners are one of the top 3? Does the other spot go to who finishes 4th?

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to win the F.A cup, you need to win 7 game- potentially. If the best 3 or 4 teams meet each other alon the way ( since there is no seeding), it's concievable that a team could win the Cup not playing anyone in the Premier league, or maye one or 2 teams, none of which would necessarily be in the top half of the League. Not only that, but with a kind draw, up to 5 of your 7 games could be at home. This is not a fair way to decide a 4th Champions league spot, and in reality, it affords clus like Spuds a much more realistic chance of Champions League qualification tan a consistent performance over 38 games, against all of the top sides, home and away. This just devalues the C/L even further. Why not just change the name to the Platini Trophy for Losers and invite Spuds in?

I think the statistics prove that you need to be a consistent team to win the FA Cup. Ok dodgy teams get through to the semi's and finals, but ultimately they don't win. Out of the last 20 FA Cups, only four times have one of the top four not won the trophy.

It's absolute b0llox, it's the latest ludicrous idea from the suits in the upper echelons of UEFA/FIFA who need to come up with this cr*p to justify their pay packets, what a load of ****. If it aint broke...

Its a load of *********. Its always the "Big 4" who win it anyway! What would West Ham or Bolton do in the CL!!??

And your comment is based on what exactly Mr Fear?

As for the actual headline fellow Gooners (now trade marked) Everybody is having a laugh at Sperz expense!.

Its The to you Rocky7! lol. Yes, I know, just my feeling, Chelsea have the quality to keep going because of the money they have spent. I don't particularly rave about Liverpool but think Rafa has built a good squad who have started far better than usual, they could well be in the mix. And Man Utd, bad start or not, are predictably top 3. Don't get me wrong, as a Villa fan I don't really give a stuff who finishes top 3 up to the point where MON wakes up, buys big, stops the long ball, and gets us challenging, but my feelings as a neutral is Arsenal are in transition still, you'll play the most attractive football in the league on your day, but inconsistencies of inexperienced players will cost you the chance of top 3. I did think Spurs might push on this season as well, but Jol is negative and their start has been a disaster, which I'm sure you are all gutted about.

Dear Fig, Wenger has been with our club for ten years now mate and during his tenure with us since `98 the lowest position he has finished has been 4th! for the last two seasons. Before that there was no big 4? it was either United or Arsenal. Then came the dark days, Millwall with money (Chelsea) arrived and it became the big 4 with L`pool flattering to deceive (however respect for C League runs) So 4th place is a little bit dissrespectful. Go FIGure!

I hate this *****er. He is ruining the greatest competition in the world by putting in crap eastern european teams. Spurs are much better then the teams he wants to get in. Theres no way the G-14 is going to let this go through.

yeah but lets face it, united played millwall in the final not so long ago, imagine them causing an upset and finishing playing the following year int he champions league !!! what a disgrace that would be !

I have no idea what Platini is trying to do to the greatest club competition on the planet with a stupid proposal like this. I could understand if it were going to improve the competition as a whole but all his proposal is going to do is degrade the overall quality of clubs in the competition. Allowing automatic group slots to just the champions of league and allowing spots to something like 40 of the lowest 52 leagues in UEFA is ludicrous. Another thing that wasn't mentioned is that the qualifying would be divided into two separate phases played at the same time. The CUP qualifiers and the league qualifiers. So in the example given above for last season locamotiv would get their place in the league qualifiers (which i presume will be easier since it will be filled with bad eastern european sides) and Arsenal would take their place in the cup qualifier where they it seems to me that they could face sides like Valencia (Sevilla won the cup but finished in the top 3 in Spain). Overall a bad idea no one wants to different teams in the champion's league we want to see the BEST teams in the CL.

Wasnt having a pop Herbert, but Rocky was saying you had a goos season because you had lots of injuries and still only finished behind Liverpool on goal difference, when the simple fact is you finished that close because we got CL qualification sorted very early and eased off in the league to concentrate on the CL. No disrespect, but like it or not you're the 4th best team in the country and for my money that doesnt seem like changing anytime soon.

Is Platini's intention to add an element of randomness to the teams participating? Why do this when the whole point of these competitions is for the cream of the crop to fight it out? Winning the FAC does not really make you the best. Next cranky idea please Michel, we're all ears!

It's really absurd, I don't think it'll do anyone any good if Bolton, West Sham, Everton or even Everton make it to the group stages of the CL, they'll be slaughtered like those Turkish teams that end up fourth in their CL group every season.

Hold on, is this rule only for the FA Cup in England, or will this apply to every country's equivalent, like the Kings Cup in Spain?

I've always thought Platini was a cit of a ****. DId you guys hear his spud/anti arsenalstyle moaning about foreign ownership in the EPL?

That's a fact korodon, what's everyone moaning about then anyway?

Don't talk about "Spurs standards" here...you're embarrassing yourself.

First of all FIG, if you are admitting you gave up the ghost so early it surprises me a bit. Your other comments about us being a poor squad makes it appear, to me at least, that you don't know too much about football. Take out RVP and they may, may appear slighly stronger up front, but in the middle we are far superior. As for the back, you are saying that Clichy, Senderos, Gallas, and Sagna are inferior to Chimbonda, King, Dawson, and Bale/whoever! This is waht is known as having 'a bubble'! I would even hazard a guess and say that some balanced Spurs fans would admit equality on those back lines! Comparing our defence to Spurs is a consistently one-sided argument nearly always in our favour going on historical stats. Anyway, when you lost John Terry last year, your defence practically folded! Losing him, plus Drogba, plus Lampard, would put you where exactly?

spurs are *****e anyway the wont win anything! gimps!

Surprise eh? I wonder if Arsene is hiding anything else that might pop up at 2am or in the morning even!

Fig isn't a chelsea fan. Dammit, we lost Diarra, such an excellent player. Our squad looks a bit older now.

Our best youngster is still a blue. A name you will hear oh oh soo much in the future.

Today's result at Fulham makes FIG's investment comment look a bit silly. Sperz have invested more money than anyother PL team, Man Utd and Chelsea aside and they have only won one major honour in 16 years, and that was the worst of the three domestic trophies.

FIG i don't think you can write Arsenal off as title challengers, last season they picked up the most points in matches against the rest of the big 4 (I think thats right!) they were just inconsistent like we were.