FIFA confirmed at the weekend that they are considering implementing a rule aimed at reducing the chances of 'player burn-out'. UEFA have already announced plans to streamline the Champions League from next season, meaning the eventual winners would play 13 games instead of 17.
Ferguson doesn't feel clubs in England would accept the plan:
'It's easy to give the answer, much harder to apply it,' he said. 'If you go back 10 years to the innovation of the Premier League, the intent was to go to 36 games. Then people started to back-track. Only Arsenal and ourselves have consistently supported the original view because we could see ahead to where European football was going. The fear of dropping into the dreaded First Division is too much for most of the Premier League. They need all the games and all the money. Even some of the top teams are looking at it that way.’