SWEET FA

This page is devoted to all those who find the majority of FA decisions puzzling, inane or (most likely) both. To understand how this organization works, one must first grasp the UtterlackofJusticeometer that operates within it. It's all fairly simple (like the people who run it, really); when two clubs have a contention, the one with a higher ULOJO score always wins. Trifling matters such as the justice of the lower club's case do not enter into it.

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Premiership 'superclubs' (Manchester U., Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool): +100 points

Well-supported clubs: + 5 points for each full 1,000 over 20,000 in average attendance figures, +50 if over 50,000

Other Premiership clubs: +50 points

Championship clubs: +10 points

League One clubs: + 5 points

Non-league clubs: -200 points, -30 points for each level below League 2, and -100 if below Level 8

Clubs that were non-league at any time before 1986*: -200 points

Clubs that were non-league after 1986, then attained League membership: -100 points

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* The year the former Wimbledon F.C. reached the top flight just nine years after entering the Football League.