Twenty-seven teams have joined Fair Game in sending a stinging letter calling for the UK government 'to save the FA Cup'.

Twenty-seven clubs from the EFL and below write to the Government to intervene in the proposed scrapping of FA Cup replays.

Campaign group Fair Game and clubs across the country are demanding an amendment to the Football Governance Bill to protect FA Cup replays after a decision to scrap them.

The FA Cup is set to recalculate the prize money for lower league clubs to offset the loss of revenue from scrapped replays, according to the Daily Mail. The total prize pool of £33 million won’t change,

The letter to Lucy Frazer, the Cabinet minister responsible for sport, began: "We want to save the FA Cup. The FA Cup is the oldest football competition in the world and the decision to remove FA Cup replays from the first round proper further undermines its prestige and does nothing to help protect our cherished football pyramid.

It is claimed that Stoke City and rivals in the EFL were not properly consulted about decision to scrap FA Cup replays