Quote Originally Posted by legs77 View Post
FA Cup winner could offer CL place for winners as a carrot ?
Platini backed that idea and I 100% agreed with it. Had the ECWC got the chop a couple of seasons earlier, it would have surely been suggested that the cup winners should go into the ECL the season they first allowed more than 1 club per nation (1997 I think) which would have saved the FA Cup's reputation.

The only way I see the FA Cup being taken seriously again is if they take the QFs and SFs abroad with the massive cash incentives that would presumably go with such a move, but we'll probably see that happen in the ECL before the FA Cup decide to do it, by which time the novelty of playing in New York, Tokyo etc, will have worn off.