FIFA oppose Premier League plans

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Sepp Blatter, president of football's world governing body, said even former Football Association chairman Geoff Thompson - now a FIFA vice-president - was in opposition to the '39th step'. The issue was raised only briefly at Friday's committee meeting in Zurich but all members opposed it.

Blatter said after the meeting: "This idea for the Premier League to play a 39th round outside the country does not work. They would be playing 12 hours away west and east and 24 hours difference in the south. Even the former chairman of the FA, Mr Geoff Thompson, said we should oppose it."

Blatter also announced the decision to scrap trials on goal-line technology had been given full backing by the world governing body's football and technical committees.

The FIFA president also said he would issue a personal request to clubs to release over-age players for the Olympic football tournament in Beijing this summer even though they were not forced to.

Meanwhile, Blatter and UEFA president Michel Platini will visit Brussels next month to push his ideas of introducing a rule where teams can only have a maximum of five foreigners.