Reds chief raps FIFA over fixtures agenda

Manchester United chief executive David Gill believes FIFA must remember who supplies the players before they think about shoving more international dates into an already-cramped calendar.

United returned from their five–match tour of North America knowing that immediately after Sunday's Community Shield encounter with Manchester City at Wembley, they will lose players to international friendlies.

Three weeks after that comes the first international double–header of the new campaign, within a month of that there will be another and in mid–November their players will be called away once more.

Yet FIFA president Sepp Blatter has spoken about more international dates being added, which has angered Europe's powerful leading clubs intensely.