JH

6th place is already UEFA Cup. If Middlesbrough win the UEFA Cup and reach the FA Cup final then 7th is UEFA Cup spot. If the situation is as in your question 5th and 6th are still UEFA Cup spots If West Ham beats Middlebrough, they gets a place through FA Cup. If Middlebrough wins the Uefa Cup, will they be given a place to defend the champion? (Liverpool case last year) And if they both finish outside the top 6, that means only the team finishing at 5th can get into Uefa Cup because only 3 places are available. A place through the league (5th), a place through the FA Cup and a place through the Carling Cup. The Carling Cup place has already gone to the league (i.e. 6th). There is a space already available for the UEFA Cup winners whoever they be so if Boro win the UEFA Cup, they don't take a spot from the Premiership, there is already a space available for the winners of the competition.

6th place is already UEFA Cup. If Middlesbrough win the UEFA Cup and reach the FA Cup final then 7th is UEFA Cup spot. If the situation is as in your question 5th and 6th are still UEFA Cup spots

found this: "if the championship, a relegation place or European qualification is at stake, they will then play off to decide who finishes higher."

Wouldn't that just mean Spurs get Cl instead of Uefa and anything below is unaffected? The outcome of a successful appeal could have many outcomes, but one is that Arsenal and Spurs get CL places, and a club from Andorra who would have been in the CL gets our UEFA Cup place. But wouldn't that be the UEFA Cup place from 5th and 6th would still go to us if we were there?

It does, if Arsenal win, and Spurs come fourth, then doesn't one less team get in the UEFA Cup? Say Arsenal win the CL and finish fifth. They get the CL place and Spurs get the UEFA Cup space and 6th will be unaffected as will 7th. It would basically a flip of places to my reckoning.

the Champions League final has no bearing on the outcome of the league but the UEFA Cup does

The final run in: <fixture list removed - http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcforum/index.php/topic,19161.0.html> Too hard to call in my opinion. We will have to beat Birmnigham and Chelsea and hope that other results go our way