Quote Originally Posted by S'all Good Man View Post
English clubs would have to really capitulate in Europe to lose the 4th spot, from 2018-19 season the top 4 clubs will be guaranteed 4 group places. At the minute the top 3 get 3 group places and 1 play-off. So Germany, Spain, England and Italy will get 4 spots at the moment. For England to lose the 4th sport, they would need their coefficient to considerably. For 17/18 England had 76.284 and the 5th ranked country Portugal had 53.082. They are closer to catching Germany in 2nd(80.177) than dropping to 4th(Italy 70.439) so to drop to 5th will require an embarrassment worse than losing to USA in 1950 or Iceland in 2016.

https://en.as.com/en/2016/12/09/foot...03_008421.html
Right they just changed the rules i see, read an article recently that said english teams were about to lose their 4th spot to Italy if they didn't pull their socks up.