Google ignore St George's Day but Villa could be playing in Europe next season
Monday, 23 April 07, 03:15 PM · Comments (13)
It's got me a little riled today that Google have chosen not to celebrate St George's Day, instead they have decided to promote 'Earth Day'.
It's not the first time Google have ignored St George's Day and to be honest I'm a little annoyed because I'm fed up seeing a leprechaun on March 17th every year.
I know this has nothing to do with Aston Villa but the whole thing got me to thinking about England, which in turn got me to thinking about Europe which led me to European football next season, which believe it or not is still possible!
We're an English club but our owner is American and our manager is from Northern Ireland. Most of the first team are not English and Google has started to ignore St George's Day by not putting up it's holiday logo above the search box.
Okay, onto Europe and the Right Result.
The Right Result is a website that looks at all the wrong decisions made by referees and fixes them, well sort of. What they actually do is run their own league table based on what the results would have been, had the referee made the right decision.
An example is the Pedro Mendes shot from the half way line for Spurs against Manchester United in January 2005. Had the goal been allowed, as it should have been, Spurs would have most likely been playing European football the following season.
The Right Result have Aston Villa sitting in 9th place, two points off European football next season and if all the decisions had gone our way we'd be in with a much better chance than we do right now in the actual Premiership league table; or would we?
There is an actual chance that we could get into Europe via the Fair Play League set up by UEFA. Now, I've emailed UEFA and searched and searched but can't find this actual league table so none of this is confirmed by my eyes, but apparently we're one place behind Spurs and the winner of the Fair Play League gets into the UEFA Cup.
Now, second is no good I hear you think and you wouldn't be wrong in thinking that but, if Spurs qualify for the UEFA Cup through where they finish in the league there is every chance that whoever finishes second in the Fair Play League, currently us, would get entered into the tournament.
Now, I'm not sure if I'd like getting in that way but Liverpool got in the Chumpians League when they finished 5th one season. Okay, they had won it the year before but still the rules had to be changed to allow them to play.
So, European football is a chance for next season and with a bit of luck Google will also remember St George's Day. Sorry.
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I dont care as long as we are in Europe!!
Take a look on the premier league website,
LINK
this it the latest table and yes we are second.
Is it right that:
10 teams who are top of there fair play league in there respective leagues get put forward to qualify for the UEFA cup.
They are all put into a hat and the first 2 drawn out will qualify.
Does anybody know different, or am I talking a load of rubbish??
UTV
I notice the top 4 are still in the position they are in now in the "right league " this just goes to show how the officials favour the big teams ,and it pisses me right off
the reason they have a leprechaun every year is cause everybody loves the irish. its a world wide event ST PATRICKS DAY. they celebrate it in alot of countrys and who outside of you remembered it was st georges day? nobody outside of england knows about it.
I've heard the way it works is as follows:
The country with the highest average fair play co-effiecient (score to you and I), will have a team entered into the UEFA cup. At the moment, this country is Sweden, so Sweden will have the winner of their fair play league automatically entered into the UEFA Cup.
After this, the other teams that finish first, will be entered into a draw for the 2nd Fair Play UEFA cup place. So if we are in the draw, there is a 1 in 10 (someone please check) chance that we could get into the competition.
I checked the UEFA website and according to the document at the link below, any country that gets a score of 8 or above will qualify for the draw (except for the top country who will get an extra place automatically). At the moment it's ten countries but that number could go up or down.
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To be honest we english for some strange reason celebrate St Patricks day more than St George's day. It beats me, why? its like us celebrating a french national holiday, its not right, unless your irish of course. To be honest if we don't successfully get into europe through the fair play league, we may as well enter for the Inter-toto cup, after all its europe, the players get enought money to start work early.
thanks for that paddy. The reason is not because the irish are loved but because your biggest export Guiness (and this is correct if you want to look it up) is loved the world over. They advertise paddy day as a day to drink guiness so everybody celebrates it by drinking guiness. Not because they like you but because they like your biggest and only significant export. I must admit, however, that it is a pretty impressive export.
there is definitely an english team getting into europe through fair play this season, because last season the premiership was the fairest league or something. hopefully that team will be villa
Up the Villa and up the Irish.
Up the villa and up the Irish
up the city we in football league 3 years we will be beating teams like villa and plymouth love it hail tim lovejoy