"Uefa has stood by its line that Liverpool can only play if Everton, who finished fourth in the Premiership, drop out."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/4581317.stm

The FA lobbied UEFA to give England 5 slots, and they agreed. If they hadn't, who's to say that the FA wouldn't have followed the precedent set by the Spanish league who demoted Zaragoza to 5th to allow Real Madrid to defend their title in 2000?