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England Tops Fair Play Table, Gets Another UEFA Cup Spot
Published 5/9/2008 by Jeff Hash at EPL Talk
... That distinction right now is held by Manchester City, who lie fifth on the fair play table after four teams who have already won European places.  This would be the second time City has made the UEFA Cup on fair play; they also were best in fair play when England last won an automatic spot in 2003.  However, it will only be official once all matches are played.  Two teams lie within a tenth of point of City on the current table; Everton and Fulham. Everton, however, only need a last day draw or Aston Villa not winning to get it’s own UEFA Cup spot, meaning Fulham has the ...

Friday Backpasses:
Published 5/10/2008 by ü75 (noreply@blogger.com) at Unprofessional Foul
Noel Gallagher (remember him?) slams Thaksin Shinawatra. I wonder what Badly Drawn Boy thinks [BBC] England pick up an extra place in UEFA Cup through Fair Play award [Soccernet] That place likely to go to Manchester City [Guardian] unless Fulhamerica can pip them at the post [Premier League.com] Liverpool transfer madness on the other side of the jump Liverpool turn down $50 million bid for Gerrard. Morons [The Sun] Liverpool think they will get $30 million for Crouchdinho. Super fucking morons [ ...

This Might Be One of the Funnier Things Ever
Published 5/10/2008 by Precious Roy (noreply@blogger.com) at Unprofessional Foul
... The entire table can be seen here but it's not the soap opera that is Man City that's of interest here, or of interest to us—frankly we can't collectively bring ourselves to care much about Citeh around these parts save maybe for their sweeping of United—its the MLS East club sitting in seventh. ...

Congrats to Fulham!
Published 5/11/2008 by Mr. Garcia-Prats (noreply@blogger.com) at Yanks Abroad Soccer Highlights
... I'm not sure how this works but according to some, they would earn a spot due to the Fair Play Award. I will try to find more info about this. ...

The weird world of UEFA’s Fair Play League
Published 5/12/2008 by Martyn Herman at Reuters Soccer Blog
... City are a less than angelic fifth in the Premier League’s Fair Play stats but the teams above them will all be in Europe anyway. To make matters worse, the system is not even as simple as red and yellow cards or fouls committed. At least that criteria would be black and white. ...

Fulhamapalooza
Published 5/13/2008 by Precious Roy (noreply@blogger.com) at Unprofessional Foul
Not to beat Eight Belles with this, but, yes, it is another Fulham-UEFA Cup post (to go with this and this). Of interest is the new Fair Play table. It has been updated, but only to go back in time. Where it used to say "Matches up to and including 5th May 2008," it now reads "Matches up to and including 28th April 2008" (of course even that depends on when you, the reader, click on the link). Not that you wouldn't believe us, but after the jump is a screenshot of the cached page. Anyway you can see the old ...

Life is cruel.
Published 5/16/2008 by Lingering Bursitis (noreply@blogger.com) at Unprofessional Foul
... And yes, this simple yellow card has come back to haunt our brave American heroes at Fulham, for the final Fair Play standings were just released. It turns out the relegation-escaping marauders at the Cottage missed out on that unlikely UEFA Cup spot by 0.02 points, or, to put it more bluntly, 4 yellow cards. ...