Tuumble
Sunday 22nd April 2012 4:48pm
Peterborough
4,491 posts
Quote: catskillz @ April 21 2012, 9:16 PM BST
So they only allowed the winners to defend that one year?
The upshot was was that UEFA hadn't considered the possibility of the Champions' League winners performing so poorly in their domestic league that they couldn't make the top 4. It would've been totally unfair to the incumbant Everton to change the rules at the last minute so Liverpool had to be shore horned in against some Welsh club I think. Everton didn't even make the group stage after all that losing in the final qualifying to...Valencia?
[*rushes off to reasearch]
Ist qualifying round
Liverpool 6-0 agg Total Network Solutions
2nd qualifying round
Kaunas Lithuania 1-5 agg Liverpool
3rd qualifying round
CSKA Sofia 2-3 agg Liverpool
Everton 2-4 agg Villarreal
...so I was nearly right...