DAVID MOYES, the Everton manager, hopes to secure his team’s place in next season’s Champions League this weekend, but Liverpool, reeling after the Football Association seemed to dash their hopes of qualifying for the tournament as holders, are still quietly confident of earning a reprieve if they triumph in the European Cup final on May 25.
Liverpool’s hopes of qualification for next season’s competition suffered a significant blow on Thursday when the FA announced that England’s final Champions League place would go to the team finishing fourth in the Barclays Premiership, even if it meant that the Anfield club won the competition and missed out. But their case has been strengthened in the past 48 hours by revelations of an apparent change in FA policy