Whilst some countries have three or four entrants in the Champios League small countires like Scotland are left to scramble for the remaining places. It may seem a small point but surley the champions of each respective country should be guaranted entry to the competition proper?
Celtic manager Martin O'Neill was less than impressed when he heard the bad news:
"I could never really work it out, but you'd think that if you were champions of your country and did reasonably well the previous time, that there would only be one qualifier rather than two."