citizen_maine
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Did they finish 5th deliberately?Actually they didn’t. The season the rags won the EL (2016-17), they were in the competition from its onset rather than dropping down after finishing third in their CL group.
They finished fifth in the previous season’s PL so were a fully fledged Thursday night club that year.