This is the point in a football season when bad news gets confirmed. Usually that has been relegation, or mathematical failure to reach the play-offs, or perhaps a favourite player not being on your club’s retained list.
This is the point in a football season when bad news gets confirmed. Usually that has been relegation, or mathematical failure to reach the play-offs, or perhaps a favourite player not being on your club’s retained list. This season there has been an exciting new entry to the scene: the confident-then-agonising wait to see if the would claim a fifth spot in the 2024-25 . And this week came confirmation of what we have suspected for a while: no, it would not.
In many years these would simply have been labelled as interesting ties but in the context of 2023-24 they were coefficient superclasicos. A dismal April that saw Manchester City, Arsenal, West Ham and Liverpool all exit Europe in the same week all but sealed the deal. By April 19 the mighty Premier League had only a one per cent chance of finishing as one of the top two UEFA competitions this season. This week a combination of Bayern, and ensured it was over.
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