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Regardless of the competition, the only way to miss a Final is if you are sent off in the Semi-final (or the second leg of the semi final if its a two-legged affair). All football associations changed it when there was uproar about players missing finals because they accrued too many yellow cards throughout a tournament. Seemed like an unfair punishment so Fifa revised the world cup rules, and FA/Uefa either followed suit or were already set up that way. Onana playing doesn't exactly help then in the final anyway, I fully expect City to hammer them.

You minx

I think you have answered your own question. 

Someone who works for me is a Spurs fan and this is very close to his opinion. It's not that he doesn't want the CL. But they've had the novelty of being in it, and they're so desperate for a trophy they're looking at teams like West Ham last season and us this season and thinking it's better to be in a competition they can win rather than one they'll more than likely go out of early-ish He certainly doesn't chare the desire to get into the competition like we do.   Hopefully the team feels the same!

We've played 15 more games than Tottenham. Does european football really need to be like that.  Surely you could have a cup where the winner doesn't need to play 15 to 20 games to win it. Presumably its just money driving that. 

That's a really good point. Hasn't it rained pretty much continuously since Unai arrived at Villa? Maybe he's getting his power from the rain gods.

If I were Spurs I would try and lose every game. Make sure they qualify for ECL, perhaps then they could actually win something.

I agree 100% And it's no coincidence the Lerner badge looks a 100 times better when it's in all claret on the white shirts, because it stands out Or on the blue shirts   Change the AVFC to Aston Villa and make it a claret lion on the blue background and it'll be much nicer than the clipart version we've got leaked

It is better than the original Lerner badge.  But that is the lowest of low bars. If you don't have any contrast between the background and your core symbol, then it doesn't work. The drop shadow attempts to resolve that (so they know its a problem), but it's so amateur it makes it worse. It's the fundamental issue we face. Yellow/gold on claret, or claret on light blue.  They're the only options.