Liverpool Echo, 22 April 2005 Time for action on Champions League conundrum By David Prentice, Liverpool Echo
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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.
Barney sourced thisUEFA'S LEAGUE WISH By: Mark Rowan The Chief Executive of UEFA has broken the ongoing silence on what should happen if Everton were to finish fourth and...
Neither paints them in a particularly impressive light here on Merseyside.
