Benitez slams Premier League's overseas plan

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2008

LIVERPOOL, England (AFP) — Plans to stage English Premier League (EPL) games overseas are not a good idea, according to Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez.

The Premier League announced last week it was considering plans to extend the season to 39 games with the extra matches taking place in five cities overseas, starting in 2011.

But the idea has met with resistance from fans in England, the British media and football federations in Asia and Australia, as well as FIFA president Sepp Blatter.

Benitez has become the first coach of one of the Premier League's so-called 'big four' to firmly oppose proposals to play matches overseas when he revealed that both he and chief executive Rick Parry believed the concept to extend the season to 39 games from 2010-11 was...

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