Jeff Shreves

And I was, I was just actually thinking where the FA cup actually fits in and,

And listen, we know for so long now, we don't need to go over it again, where the FA Cup sort of fell with the Champions League and the Premier League becoming so prominent now.

But we all know the Premier League.

It's almost got to be, if the Premier League starts like it looks like it's going to, it can't afford to stop, really.

Now, it will have to stop if there's a huge health scare or something with the COVID-19.

Of course, we accept that, but...

In terms of actually when it starts, it needs to be over as quick as possible.

Now, I'm not talking about actually rushing the games and not making it fair for teams and playing four games a week.

But I think the FA Cup games going in the middle of Premier League, this Premier League calendar now that we're going to create, I think almost stops the momentum of the league.

And everyone knows we want to try and get it finished, you know, for the financial reasons that we've covered.

And I think the FA Cup would almost be forgotten.

And I think teams in the FA Cup

would be concentrated on the league anyway, whether that was Norwich trying to stay up, Sheffield United trying to get in the Champions League, same with Manchester United.

And I think if you actually finished the Premier League as quick as possible, make sure that helps all the clubs financially, that's done.

And the FA Cup could almost be something that's done over a week, where you're actually, all the focus is on that.

Every game we're all watching is the FA Cup.

And even the teams involved, whether Norwich have gone down, United have made the Champions League, or Sheffield United have or haven't, whatever that may be, they can all just focus solely on the FA Cup.

And it's almost like a week of FA Cup games, like...

like you'd see in the world cup where you'd have the quarterfinals on a Friday or a Saturday, the semifinals Tuesday or Wednesday, and then the final on the Saturday or Sunday.

And I just think it'd be a, I think it works well really when I was thinking about it in terms of the calendar and also probably, you know, gives the, there's all something to watch and get behind the FA cup and focus solely on the FA cup for a week.