Richer teams want fewer games to ease fixture congestion, poorer teams want more because they provide additional or essential finance. “FA Cup replays can help clubs lower down survive another year and all the jobs that come with that,” he tweeted. Play cup ties over 90 minutes and go straight to penalties to alleviate fixture congestion and avoid player burnout. And while scrapping replays, let’s urgently readdress lower league funding - from the unfair Elite Player Performance Plan to a review of the knock-on effects of parachute payments. That is how we will stop clubs following Bury – not by preserving a flawed system for the sake of nostalgia.

Source: Daily Mirror February 02, 2020 23:37 UTC