League Table decided by alphabet
jazzydrury3
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On Monday Night Football last night, Martyn Tyler, said that if Chelsea had won 2-1, they would have gone into 4th place on alphebetical order.
How would u feel if your club, missed out on Champions League Football becauase of that rule, i didnt even realised that existed.
Also i can imagine the Football Clubs wouldnt be happy, especially if they got relegated because they were called West Brom and not Wigan just to use a example.
Wouldnt there be loads of chaos if such a thing happened, case the alphabet, could cost a club millions.
Has anybody heard of the rule?
How would u feel if your club, missed out on Champions League Football becauase of that rule, i didnt even realised that existed.
Also i can imagine the Football Clubs wouldnt be happy, especially if they got relegated because they were called West Brom and not Wigan just to use a example.
Wouldnt there be loads of chaos if such a thing happened, case the alphabet, could cost a club millions.
Has anybody heard of the rule?
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Id assume they would use the same rule for deciding the league winner...
http://www.premierleague.com/content/premierleague/en-gb/fans/faqs/who-wins-league-if-teams-finish-on-same-points.html
That's incorrect.
MOTD said Chelsea would go fourth if they won 2-0.
Placements are based on goals scored and goal difference.
Yes, because a two goal lead would have meant they'd have scored one more goal than Spurs, presumably.
So how is what has been said by Sky, incorrect?
The 'they would have gone into 4th place on alphebetical order' is clearly incorrect.
How is it clearly incorrect based on what you said?
Placements are based on goals scored and goal difference.
Not alphebetical order.
But you didn't contradict anything. Sky know that and presumably Chelsea and Spurs have scored the same number of goals. Hence why the 'If Chelsea win 2-0 they'd go top on goals scored'
If they won 1-0, by the logic of your own post, the goals scored would be equal too. Otherwise how would a 2-0 win mean they scored more goals than Spurs but a 1-0 wouldn't mean they scored exactly the same number?
Whether it's incorrect or not,what is not in dispute is that it was said. Anyway,what about if Arsenal finished fourth and Aston Villa fifth? How could you argue that Aston Villa couldn't play in the champions league because of the alphabet??
Oh,and it's [pedant mode on] alphabetical order,by the way. [pedant mode off].
'alphebetical' was initially quoted from Op, why don't you pedantically correct him too?
Or the other spelling mistakes in this thread.
Either that or they're wanting a credit card.
It makes no impact to anyone.
If the same applies after the conclusion of the season, then a play off match is arranged if a title, euro qualification or relegation is at stake...
I'm sure no-one wants a pointless play-off match at this stage of the season just for 'bragging rights'...
If all were tied at the end of the season then there would be a play off. Otherwise there would be a quick name change
Would they use some kind of Round Robin?
I always thought in the event of clubs tied on points, goal diffeerence and goals scored, the matches between the two/three of them should be looked at first before any play-off match. Would save an extra match or three being played
Or it could go down to the team that has the fewest players who have cheated on their wives.
So unless athe championship, relegation or Qualification for Europe is involved there is no playoff, the teams share the position in the table, but for convieniance of displaying the table they will usually be place in alphabetical order.