Did anyone ask him his opinion at the time?
Anyway that was a totally different case. The rules say the FA of the country in question can decide who gets the ECL places, the Spanish FA decided it would be Real Madrid. The English FA told Liverpool to f*** off, they were simply told that the rules in place at the start of the sebutton would stand, ie you had to be in the top 4 to qualify, if you weren't good enough to be in the top 4 then you weren't good enough to represent England in the ECL.
As we all now know, UEFA gifted Liverpool a wild card entry. This in effect confirms that Liverpool are the first ECL-European Cup winners in history who were to pooe to qualify for the following year's competiton.
Now chalk that one up!
Bernie The Bolt - 'Gerard Houllier was actually a French chef employed by Rick Parry to prepare meals for the players. One day he pinned a sheet of paper on the wall, I buttumed it was a menu. I couldn't believe it when I looked and saw it was 'his' team sheet. It seemed an ok selection so I left the paper on the wall; we won 3-0 that day. Four weeks later I was sacked. To this day I still don't know what the f*** happened.' - Roy Evans
