Lucky for them then that their team pulled their finger out and went on a title winning run set of results at the end of the season to gatecrash the top 4 after doing fuck all for two thirds of the season..
Securing a CL spot and thus guaranteeing hemselves, not only £10's of millions of pounds for qualifying but their shirt sponsor Adidas didn't have to invoke their vastly reduced sponsorship clause due to the rags missing out on CL qualification for two consecutive seasons..
What a fucking stroke of luck / coincidence that was..!
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