So the authorities have known since October, how were they able to continue on the cup? Remember this?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2244501/Bradford-City-appeal-expulsion-FA-Cup-fielding-ineligible-player.html
You can say it's only one point and a doomed cup run, but surely having a player on the pitch you shouldn't have may have improved your goal difference even by playing in games you lost?
Local papers of other relegation candidates picking up on it from that angle.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/cardiff-city-swansea-city-relegation-6916834
If only they'd won the cup, had two weeks walking around like a dog with two dicks, then had it taken off them again. My sides would not have been able to cope.
Note it doesn't take into account if that shot is a goal or an aimless punt in the vague direction of the sticks after failing to come up with any way of unlocking the defence.
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11700/9242092/southamptons-finances-mean-no-need-to-sell-adam-lallana-luke-shaw-jay-rodriguez
Must be nice to hear people at your club saying things like this.
Dunno if it would be worse for them to win it on the last day with victory against us at Anfield or have it sewn up by then and have our bunch expected to give them a guard of honour onto the pitch.
And people think it's paranoid conspiracies to think refs are leaned on to give Man U a bit more time to score a winner, causing people in Timbuktu to post "GGMU!" on twitter and rush out to buy a premier league bedspread.