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Premier clubs demand FA Cup change
Topic Started: 24 Feb 2016, 11:47 PM (390 Views)
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Published 24th February 2016

Premier League clubs demand FA Cup change after more scheduling chaos

PREMIER LEAGUE clubs will press for big changes in a bid to avoid the fixture chaos which has engulfed the FA Cup.

There is a growing feeling among the top flight’s Champions League participants that the situation needs sorting out.

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are still waiting for the Football Association to pick a date for their fifth-round replay with Hull. A decision is expected within 24 hours – five days after the teams drew 0-0 at the Emirates. It looks likely the game will be staged on Monday March 7, just two days after Arsenal play the north London derby against Tottenham at White Hart Lane and despite Hull having a Championship game against Brentford scheduled for the following day. The tie cannot be played midweek because it would clash with UEFA competitions, which could result in a big fine for the FA.

It is thought there is little appetite to play it on sixth round weekend because of the potential knock-on effects later in the competition, like trying to fit in more replays.

There are still no dates for the three quarter-finals that can be arranged – Reading v Crystal Palace, Everton v Chelsea and West Ham’s visit to Manchester United.

Fans of the east London club are already applying for tickets and some United fans have paid for theirs.

The games are due to be played over the weekend of March 11-14, but problems around TV scheduling and the fact the Old Trafford outfit could be playing Europa League games on March 10 and 17 mean no dates have been finalised.

The FA are under pressure after Manchester City effectively wrote off the competition by fielding a weakened team at Chelsea in the fifth round. Manuel Pellegrini handed debuts to five teenagers in Sunday’s 5-1 defeat, because City had to face Dynamo Kiev in the Champions League three days later.

But the Premier League are also in the firing line for failing to give English clubs enough help when it comes to the packed schedule. Arsenal are unhappy they will face Everton at Goodison in a 12.45 Saturday kickoff, three days after travelling to Barcelona for the second leg of their Champions League last-16 clash on March 16.


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Cut the Premier League from 20 clubs to 16, opening up 4 match days per club. Divert 20% of the PL's television money to the lower leagues (along with the 4 relegated clubs), with a portion to the FA Cup prize money pools and the balance distributed throughout each of the FA tiers (not as parachute payments). This will, of course, never happen...

In the US, Major League Baseball funds three lower tiers of professional baseball competition, so it's quite possible for a top-flight League to do this sort of thing. But the Fat Cats in English football would never go for it - the Fat Cats in the NFL have not (they use College Football as their 'farm teams'), but the NBA is doing the same to an extent (only 1 league) and the NHL has a player farm system with several of the 'lower' ice hockey leagues (like the loan system, but much more wide-spread).
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Thoughts? Greedy PL clubs who are right behind the Champions League criteria which means far more European games are being played. To counter this they already play four less top flight games each season than they used to play. There are also only single replays in Cup games with penalties now deciding matches. Some of us well remember multiple Cup replays.
The best top flight teams also join in at a later stage in the League Cup than they used to.

They also have bigger squads than in the past because of all the money in the game and play on far better pitches than in the past.

Thoughts? They need to get on with it and stop complaining.
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Zip's got it spot on. Those poor Arsenal players having to travel all the way to Spain (A whole 2 hours on the plane max) and then having to play another game 3 days later? Boo-frekin'-hoo!
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How about those premier league clubs, who feel the FA cup interferes with their other priorities, drop out of the competition altogether?

It might sound extreme, but I'd rather that happened than the whole competition being turned upside down to satisfy the whims of half a dozen clubs.
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Why don't the teams who qualify for Europe just drop out of the League Cup? Then on League Cup dates they can play fellow European contenders failures in the Premier League. That's the obvious solution, but the clubs are so greedy they want it all ways. They could also scrap the Community Shield and donate a star player's weekly wage to charity instead. And why the hell wasn't this foreseen? Typical incompetence from the Football Association.
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The game is being held on the 8th March; confirmed by the FA.
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I just thought I'd do a comparison between Arsenal and Barcelona's fixtures. This season Barca have played in six different competitions - La Liga, Spanish Cup, Spanish Super Cup, UEFA Super Cup, World Club Cup and the Champions League. So far they've played 45 matches compared to the 39 Arsenal have faced. But I don't hear Barcelona whingeing about too many games do you? And their football is on a different planet to anything in England.
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