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Originally Posted by Hoopie1
Personally I'd rather trim the bloated group stages of the European competitions.
one way to make inroads into this would just be to disqualify permanently from all European competitions teams that play/have played at former Olympic stadia - so that would sort out Espanyol, Lazio/Roma, etc, etc.
obv everything is about the TV money - hence the idiotic 2-legged league cup semi-finals.
albeit that the league cup always was only taken semi-seriously - except perhaps by Paisley era Liverpool.
still, 1966 league cup final ftw
from the point of view of England, the international friendlies look an obvious reasonable sacrifice, but I don't see fifa countenancing that ...
how about reducing the EPL to 18 and having a 2nd EPL also of 18 (& probably therefore making a 5 league system)?