Premier League bosses are confident the fixture schedule will be played without the need to scrap FA Cup replays.
Third and fourth-round replays were ditched in each of the last two seasons because of the backlog caused by Covid. But top-flight chiefs have not asked the Football Association to scrap replays even though they will now look to reschedule the complete block of last weekend’s fixtures into a midweek in January.
The replays are a big thing for lower division clubs as they provide welcome revenue and despite the FA scrapping them in the last two years, there is no appetite to make that a permanent move.
