It is all changing in FA and League Cup competitions, thanks to COVID-19.

It is all changing in FA and League Cup competitions, thanks to COVID-19.

The FA Cup replays will be scrapped for 2020-21 season, and the Carabao Cup semi-finals reduced to one leg.

So, there will be no FA Cup final replay next season, and the reason; to “ease pressure” on the football calendar. But will this be a convenient excuse to continue this well after the COVID-19 virus has left us? It has been well known that the Cup bureaucrats have wanted to find ways to reduce or tinker with the competitions for ages.

The FA Cup will start with the extra preliminary round on 1 September...