saints_is_the_south Posted 24 January, 2013 Posted 24 January, 2013 As of 31st December 2012, England were 4th in the UEFA Respect Fair Play Rankings. At the end of the season the top 3 nations earn a place in 1st qualifying round of the Europa League. This could be of some interest to us, as Saints are currently joint 2nd with Fulham, behind Arsenal in 1st in the Premier League fair play table. We could be going on a European tour! Relevant links here, http://www.uefa.com/uefa/socialresponsibility/respect/news/newsid=1911234.html Follow the link at the bottom of the page for the UEFA rankings. Domestic rankings can be found on the PL's official website.
The Kraken Posted 24 January, 2013 Posted 24 January, 2013 New training groud edict: DON'T KICK ANYONE.
JustinR Posted 24 January, 2013 Posted 24 January, 2013 With Pochetinno in now... you can kiss this one goodbye. His teams are aggressive "we're coming for you"
Thedelldays Posted 24 January, 2013 Posted 24 January, 2013 If we stay up. Happy give the Europa league a wide berth next season
Andre Posted 24 January, 2013 Posted 24 January, 2013 First game under Pochettino, 2 yellow cards, not sure if this means anything but I really hope we'll be the top of this table and the Premier League in the top three come season end. I wouldn't go as far as saying it would be a European 'tour'... but it would be nice to watch a match or two!
Saint Garrett Posted 24 January, 2013 Posted 24 January, 2013 We will get a few more yellow cars and probably the odd red for the rest of the season. Morgan was walking a tightrope towards the end on Monday.
S4INT Posted 24 January, 2013 Posted 24 January, 2013 Yeah I noticed against Everton that we were picking up more yellows than the usual (i.e. a few - more than none)
Window Cleaner Posted 24 January, 2013 Posted 24 January, 2013 We will get a few more yellow cars and probably the odd red for the rest of the season. Morgan was walking a tightrope towards the end on Monday. It's not just about cards anyway. Fulham have more yellows than us and a red, Arsenal have 2 reds more than us. The places will go to the 3 nordic nations where they play wimp football anyway.
pingwing Posted 24 January, 2013 Posted 24 January, 2013 First game under Pochettino, 2 yellow cards, not sure if this means anything but I really hope we'll be the top of this table and the Premier League in the top three come season end. I wouldn't go as far as saying it would be a European 'tour'... but it would be nice to watch a match or two! Not too much you can do when Fellani is dictating to the ref who is bad and how (despite elbowing people in the face) he isn't...
melmacian_saint Posted 24 January, 2013 Posted 24 January, 2013 Would be great to have a European tour once more decent opposition comes along. Also valuable European preparation if this club is to begin thinking about such quotas in the future.
ThreeSixty Posted 24 January, 2013 Posted 24 January, 2013 Pretty sure Hazard has ruined Englands chances.
CWD Posted 24 January, 2013 Posted 24 January, 2013 Pretty sure Hazard has ruined Englands chances. Dunno, does the cup count?
Junior Mullet Posted 24 January, 2013 Posted 24 January, 2013 I've followed this all season. It is a possibility but my hunch is we will fall down on one of the two criteria. For those of you saying we wouldnt want this anyway, I think the club would for numerous reasons. I personally would love it.
Thedelldays Posted 24 January, 2013 Posted 24 January, 2013 I'm not. Seen plenty of teams our size or smaller, Fulham, Boro, Bolton, even Pompey have some memorable European nights and even our own short-lived experience in 2003 was great. Yes it's difficult with more games, but if handled sensibly there's no reason it can't be done. Sides abroad seem to welcome it. Rather go for that than the league or fa cup. That is true about sides abroad. The nature of the prem seems to mean the EL is some sort of black sheep
hutch Posted 24 January, 2013 Posted 24 January, 2013 Pretty sure Hazard has ruined Englands chances. But that wasn't in England.
DJ_TOAST Posted 24 January, 2013 Posted 24 January, 2013 Hope we do achieve this, would love to see Saints abroad somewhere!
Dark Munster Posted 24 January, 2013 Posted 24 January, 2013 Hope we do achieve this, would love to see Saints abroad somewhere! You're in luck. They're in Barcelona at the moment.
aintforever Posted 24 January, 2013 Posted 24 January, 2013 Bucharest away was superb. If we make into the Europa I would be well chuffed, even if we went down.
SNSUN Posted 24 January, 2013 Posted 24 January, 2013 If we stay up. Happy give the Europa league a wide berth next season+1.
Andre Posted 25 January, 2013 Posted 25 January, 2013 Not too much you can do when Fellani is dictating to the ref who is bad and how (despite elbowing people in the face) he isn't... Extremely true. I guess it's difficult to judge a league to have any 'fair play' when there is so much controversy and deception (milking) by players. Hope we win it though, I do.
Sharktopus Posted 25 January, 2013 Posted 25 January, 2013 When Fulham had their brilliant run to the final the other year under Woy didn't they qualify throught the Fair Play league?
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