Premier League considering Europa League bonuses to save Champions League spot

The agreement that changes need to be made marks a rare occasion when the Premier League and FA have found common ground.

The Independent claim that Barcelona and Real Madrid remain the preferred destination for the club’s elite players due to the demands of the English game.

The Times reported that discussions of a winter break, scrapping FA cup replays or perhaps moving FA matches to midweek have all been suggested in the hope that clubs will be less likely to dismiss the Europa League as an extra burden to their fixture calendar. It was nearly like a Champions League campaign.

Uefa belittled the Uefa Cup, sorry, Europa League, when they turned the European Cup into the Champions League and then allowed teams who were not champions to enter. The Premier League, and the First Division before it, has slowly but surely sucked the life out of the League of Ireland.

I can understand in England because of our position in the table people think it’s an important opportunity to fight for the Premier League title, but for me when you are a big club you have to fight in every competition and every game.

This is where the Premier League comes in.

But the FA Cup gives them much more if they are lucky enough to enjoy one of those epic runs by a lower league club which can still fire the imagination. By all accounts he’s been playing as well in League One but it took a show-piece game, a replay as it happened, to shine a light on his talent. UEFA even commented that England just about kept their four spots in the Champions League by narrowly beating the Italian league.

We are stuck in a time where only the Premier League and Champions League matter.