
Originally Posted by
Niall_Quinn
The results so far are already in the record books. Those are the only things that are concrete in any of this. Just make all remaining games a draw and call it. Award the titles, relegate the trash. If Villa have a game in hand then they'll get one more point than the team above them and if that's enough to keep them up then well done them. Otherwise, what's the chances they would have won that game in hand anyway? Judging by the season so far - none. And the team above them would have had to lose too. So I don't see what's so unfair about relegating them. They had 28 games to stay clear of the drop zone and they were shite for 28 games. That's more than a good enough reason to drop them.
I do think it's fair though that the 9th place team qualifies for the CL this year. There are compelling reasons for this that are hard to argue with.