LONDON, Feb 9: UEFA President Michel Platini has attacked the English Premier League’s plans to consider staging league matches overseas, describing the proposal as a joke.

“It’s a strange and comical idea, the former France playmaker was quoted as saying in an interview with Saturday’s Daily Telegraph.

“I laughed because it will never be received by FIFA, by the fans and by the national associations. It’s a nonsense idea... Soon you will have in England no English presidents (of clubs), you already have no English (national team) coach, you have no English players and maybe now you will have no clubs playing in England. It’s a joke.”—Reuters

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