From The Guardian
‘Arsène Wenger and David Dein, the manager and vice-chairman of Arsenal football club, may be supremely successful men but when it comes to romance they are right down there alongside the likes of grumpy old Jim Royle.
Within a couple of hours of the final whistle both were complaining about a fixture pile-up and saying FA Cup replays should be done away with. "Let's finish it," said Wenger, in contradiction to the majority who could not wait for part two. That will be shown on Sky, although the BBC must be well pleased after Saturday's match attracted 8.5 million viewers at its peak, over a third of the TV audience.
"There should be no replays from when we come in, in the third round," Wenger added. "The problem is the clubs will not vote for it because it makes money."
Dein would like to see replays dispensed with from the fifth round. "We could still have replays for the third and fourth rounds," he said before adding, condescendingly, "but we don't want to confuse the fans. They need to know what the rules are, so maybe it should be one thing or the other. I do understand the needs of the smaller clubs, and what it meant to Stevenage when they got a replay with Newcastle. But this needs to be sorted out."’
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