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Tuesday briefing: Premier League founding father says league should reconsider 18 team limit

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Former Arsenal vice-chairman David Dein has said that the Premier League should reconsider an 18 team division – which was one of the founding principles of a league Dein was one of the architects of three decades ago, but subsequently overlooked.

“That was a mistake — the FA should have been stronger at the start to enforce that,” Dein told the Sport Unlocked podcast. “Now you see France are going down to 18, Germany are 18, and I think we have to look at that again. I’m a great be

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