FA Cup could get midweek revamp to make it more relevant.

Bystaff and agencies Published: 7:49PM GMT twenty-five February 2010

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Watmore is penetrating to keep the third spin as an "iconic" week end eventuality but would not order out relocating alternative rounds of the foe - together with the last itself.

He said: "I do think that, over 10 or twenty years, the FA Cup has lost a small bit of the lustre. When you or I were flourishing up you could name each FA Cup winner.

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"Kids currently do the same with the Champions League and less so with the FA Cup. So we do have to do something with the FA Cup to spin it around and have it turn some-more relevant, quite for the younger era of fans."

Watmore pronounced he and the authority of the FA Cup committee, Mark Collins, had been brainstorming ideas about revamping the competition.

He added: "One of the things we"ve found is that a little of the most appropriate games and FA Cup nights occur midweek, and not at weekends as we saw on Wednesday night. It equates to that, with a little rounds, it might be improved to see at midweek fixtures rather than weekends.

""The third-round weekend, the initial week in January, is one of those iconic weekends of the football monthly calendar and I wouldn"t wish to disaster with that.

"We"ve additionally looked at all sorts of ideas with the esteem fund, with the scheduling of the game, to try and have them not strife as most with the bustling durations of Champions League and Premier League."

Asked either an dusk kick-off would be deliberate for the final, Watmore added: "If we"re going to see at the total of the FA Cup tournament, afterwards we should see at the total of it not contend "we"re not going to see at this dedicated cow or that dedicated cow".

"The FA Cup last on the second or third Saturday in May at 3pm is a illusory day, so I wouldn"t wish to disaster with that for any reason. But if there"s a unequivocally great reason to shift a little of the format and to move it behind to the sort of excellence that it had when you or I were flourishing up, afterwards because not?"