Uefa will resist pressure to change its rule that the Europa League winner qualifies for the following season’s Champions League. Either Manchester United or Tottenham Hotspur will get that backdoor route to the riches of next season’s Champions League despite their awful domestic campaigns — they are 15thand 16th in the Premier League table respectively. Uefa chiefs believe the new format has been a success and are none too happy that Arsène Wenger, the former Arsenal manager who is now Fifa’s global head of football development, has called for the Europa League winners rule to be reviewed. United and Tottenham, who will contest the Europa League final, are 15th and 16th respectively in the Premier League JAVIER GARCIA/TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR FC/REX/SHUTTERSTOCKOther critics claim the Europa League is now weaker as no teams drop down from the Champions League — until last season eight did so — and there
