"Teams just can't afford to go down now and go out of the Premiership," said Ferguson. "Look at what has happened to Leicester, Coventry and Derby County. The only place to be is the Premier Division."
"Even if you dropped it to one side going down it would possibly take a bit of the pressure off a few of the clubs but you can imagine what it would be like if there were eight or nine of them in contention and only one going down."