EFL in UPROAR over 決定／判定勝ち（する） to 捨てる FA Cup replays from next season - with surprised clubs branding it a 'DISGRACE' and furious (n)役員／(a)執行力のあるs （人命などを）奪う，主張するing they will 捜し出す 補償（金）

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English?football has been left in uproar after the FA and 首相 League struck a 取引，協定 to 捨てる FA Cup replays.

A stunned EFL has spoken of its ‘失望／欲求不満 and 失望’ after the bombshell, historic move was 発表するd on Thursday morning while clubs have branded it ‘a 不名誉’ and called for 活動／戦闘.

EFL bosses say they only gave their 是認 on the basis that the axing of replays from the first 一連の会議、交渉／完成する would be part of the still-優れた 財政上の resettlement with the 最高の，を越す flight.

And furious bosses have said they will now 捜し出す 補償（金） on the 支援する of the changes - while clubs have （人命などを）奪う，主張するd they only 設立する out after the FA’s 声明.

The FA said the cull, which comes with ‘up to £33m 付加 基金ing for grassroots’ were driven by the 拡大 to UEFA 競争s. From next season, 支持する／優勝者s League clubs will 可決する・採択する a ‘スイスの model’ w hich will 取って代わる the 伝統的な group 行う／開催する／段階 and 増加する the number of matches. The tournament will 拡大する from 32 to 36 clubs and will take the 判型 of a league （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する, with each 味方する playing a 最小限 eight matches.

English football is in uproar because FA Cup replays from the first 一連の会議、交渉／完成する will be scrapped next season

Manchester City are the FA Cup 支えるもの／所有者s after they （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Manchester 部隊d 2-1 last June

They FA 追加するd that the six-year 協定, which starts next season, will 確実にする all 一連の会議、交渉／完成するs are played on 週末s, 含むing the fifth 一連の会議、交渉／完成する, which has taken place in midweek for the last five years.?

一連の会議、交渉／完成するs four and five will be 排除的 of 首相 League fixtures for the first time, while the FA Cup Final will take place on the penultimate 週末 of the 最高の，を越す-flight season. While no 首相 League matches will go ahead on the Friday before or the Saturday of the final, they will be played the に引き続いて day. The winter break will disappear, while players will be 保証（人）d three weeks off in the summer.

In what 速く developed into a seismic 列／漕ぐ／騒動, FA insiders have spoken of 存在 ‘mystified’ at the EFL 返答, pointing out that the calendar was 調印するd off by the Professional Game Board, which 含むs EFL 議長，司会を務める Rick Parry, execs Peter Ridsdale (Preston), Steve Kavanagh (Millwall), and Jez Moxey (Burton).

‘It’s for the EFL to keep its clubs updated,’ a source 攻撃する，衝突する 支援する.

EFL insiders are 毅然とした that the switch was 現在のd as a ‘fait accompli’, that they had no input in the 事柄 and that the EFL board was not 協議するd.

League One Peterborough owner Darragh MacAnthony was one of many to 攻撃する，衝突する out, 勧めるing fans outside of those who support ‘big dogs’ to 令状 to cup sponsors 首長国s to 勧める a rethink and 警告 of an 突発／発生 of 敵意.

He 追加するd: We are now at the 行う／開催する／段階 where the big boys don't even bother to 通知する us/talk through proper changes. I have no idea what the 首相 League or the FA are even thinking pulling this move the way its 広げるd today. If this is a 調印する of things to come then 推定する／予想する a 十分な on fallout within English Football coming soon all 原因（となる）d by one 派閥 of our game. It is time to show some minerals in how we 答える／応じる to these events today…Ignoring us lower 負かす／撃墜する the pyramid is not a sensible 大勝する to take going 今後.’

In an 爆発性の 声明, League Two Tranmere Rovers said they ‘非難する the disgraceful 決定／判定勝ち（する） taken by the FA and 首相 League’. ‘There was no 協議 with Football League clubs, 国家の League clubs or grassroots clubs to whom the 競争 代表するs not only their best 適切な時期 to create life-long memories for 支持者s but also a hugely important source of income,’ they 追加するd. ‘We also understand that FA 会議 members were not 協議するd about the changes.

‘The 決定／判定勝ち（する）, and the way it was taken, 論証する a total 欠如（する） of 尊敬（する）・点 for the football pyramid and its fans. Football belongs to all of us and 決定／判定勝ち（する）s should not be taken in 支援する room 取引，協定s in which only the very wealthiest clubs are 許すd to 参加する.’

Not all those in the EFL are likely to 答える／応じる in the same way. Salford City co-owner Gary Neville said last month ‘they have to get rid of them’.

In the last 10 years 1,080 関係 were played in the first to fourth 一連の会議、交渉／完成する, with 228 replays (21 per cent) of which 135 were in the first two 一連の会議、交渉／完成するs. Those defending the move would point out a tiny 割合 伴う／関わる League One or League Two clubs playing 首相 League 味方するs in replays.

Making the 告示, 首相 League 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Richard Masters said the 増加するd 投資 would ‘高める’ the scheduling of the FA Cup, while 緩和 fixture congestion and 増加する support into grassroots football.

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The FA Cup final will be held on the penultimate 週末 of the 首相 League season

Andy Holt 地位，任命するd to X (以前は Twitter) on his surprise and 怒り／怒る at Thursday's 予期しない news

Nicola Palios questioned why the 首相 League made changes in cup 一連の会議、交渉／完成するs that didn't 影響する／感情 them

FA 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある 示す Bullingham said: ‘The 首長国s FA Cup is our biggest 資産 and 生成するs over 60 per cent of our 歳入 to 投資する into the game, so it is 批判的な to 安全な・保証する a strong 判型 for the 未来. This new 協定 between The FA and the 首相 League 強化するs the 首長国s FA Cup and gives this very special tournament 排除的 週末s in an ますます busy calendar.

‘The new schedule 確実にするs the 魔法 of the cup is 保護するd and 高めるd, whilst working for the whole of the English game. The longer summer period also 許すs a much-needed player break before the start of the next season.

‘We have also agreed new 基金ing for the grassroots game, disability football, and the women’s and girls’ game. All football begins at the grassroots, and this is recognised by the 首相 League with very welcome 付加 財政上の support.’

The EFL spoke of 怒り／怒る and 失望／欲求不満, 追加するing: ‘Our 国内の calendar has been put under extreme 圧力 by the 拡大 of UEFA 競争s and 最終的に this 代表するs another lost 伝統的な 歳入 stream for EFL clubs at a time when the 財政上の gap between the biggest clubs and those その上の 負かす／撃墜する the pyramid is growing bigger than ever. We will now be discussing the 関わりあい／含蓄s for EFL clubs and 捜し出すing appropriate 補償（金） 手はず／準備.'