FA and their slight Wembley mess up

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The Football Association and Premier League are in talks to avoid a clash between the FA Cup final and Premier League games at the end of the season.

The 2011 Champions League final on 28 May at Wembley means the Cup final must be played on 14 May, a league Saturday.

"It's up to the Premier League and clubs what they want to do," an FA spokesman told BBC Sport.

But BBC Sport understands there is no plan to move the Cup final from its traditional 1500 BST kick-off time.

Until this year, the Champions League final was always played on a Wednesday evening, but the 2011 final will be the second one to be played on a Saturday.

It will be the first time the new Wembley has hosted Europe's most prestigious club game, although the old Wembley staged the final of the competition - then known as the European Cup - five times, most recently in 1992 when Barcelona beat Sampdoria to lift the trophy for the first time.

Under Uefa regulations, no games can be played at final venues for two weeks beforehand, to allow the preparation of the stadium.

That has already caused a headache as it means a clash with the Football League play-off weekend.

The Championship play-off will be played at Wembley on the Bank Holiday Monday, 48 hours after the Champions League final, while the FA has reached an agreement with the Football League for the League One and Two games to be played at alternative venues.

The fixture reshuffle also means the FA Cup final will be shunted from its traditional end-of-season position, although there is precedent for this, as the 2000-2001 final in Cardiff was played the weekend before the end of the Premier League season.

As well as that,money has had to be played off to whoever due to the fact play off have had to been moved to possible Old Trafford and Wales..contract or whatever

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[zolayes 14,489]

sometime ...somewhere ,,,the FA MUST have got something right ,, just can remember it happening in my life time ..perhaps older members

can .

[Aria 19]

Love the fact of the CL final taking place at the Wembley, but it just doesn't fit. It won't look good. Just imagine having an FA Cup Final before the end of the league season, seriously wtf?

[Manuf 1,448]

I don't mind as long as we get all three of those trophies

[middleoftheshed 388]

Can't they just knock everything else back until after the CL final? Gives more time for the teams involved to prepare aswell.

[gary gordon 1,777]

I think the last month of footall is going to be tough for us.. The only plus is that we know Wembley very well and have played on the surface more than most teams...

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Can't they just knock everything else back until after the CL final? Gives more time for the teams involved to prepare aswell.

This is the FA though..they dont think logically just want to make life as complicated as possible