Blatter believes that top-flight leagues in Europe should be reduced to 16 sides to help relieve strain on professional players, which would mean major alterations to the Football League pyramid. However, Blatter believes the Premiership could cope with holding 18 clubs if cup replays were scraped.

"You have an FA Cup and League Cup and still the old tradition of replays in the FA Cup," said Blatter.

"This was mentioned in a meeting with the Football Association and Premier League. If there were no cup replays you can have 18 teams.

"We want to make sure there are not too many dates for national competitions. We should have between 43 and 47 dates for domestic football. Players should not play more than 60 games a year."

Personally, I am dead against the Blatter's proposal. The Premiership is arguably the best league in the world, and is coping well with 20 clubs. Reducing the number of teams would mean major alterations to the number of clubs in lower leagues and there would be a danger of things becoming too complicated.

I also feel the idea of scraping F.A Cup replays is wrong. The competition has fantastic tradition across the country, and I feel some of this would be sucked away if every tie was decided 'on the night', possibly losing some of the magic that comes with the great cup.

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