CLUBS HIT BACK IN CUP REVOLT!

FOOTBALL chiefs from across the pyramid have joined forces in a bid to overturn the controverisal decision to scrap FA Cup replays from next season.

-  Neil Harvey

The clubs – including former winners Bury, this year’s FA Cup heroes Maidstone United and 25 others from the EFL and Non-League – have penned a letter to Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Lucy Frazer backing a Fair Game amendment to the Football Governance Bill.

FA chiefs say the decision, in conjunction with the Premier League, was in response to pressure on the football calendar.

The reaction from the rest of the pyramid has been almost entirely hostile with a vast majority of clubs kept in the dark.

The amendment demands that any change to the FA Cup must require a majority of eligible clubs to back it.