ACCRINGTON Stanley owner Andy Holt has branded the Football League's restructuring plans as 'nonsense'.

League bosses want to create an extra division with 20 teams in each league for the start of the 2019/20 season.

That would result in a drop in the number of home games each team would have, something that Holt believes would have a major impact on the finances of clubs like Stanley.

"I think the direction of travel in the Football League is entirely wrong," he said. "They should be helping us with revenues and doing things to raise income for clubs, not distracting from it.

"Everything they’ve proposed for me doesn’t work. There’s a suggestion you’ll sell more season tickets if there’s no midweek games, I’m baffled by that.

"We don’t really have other incomes. Higher up the leagues the matchday revenue is a much smaller proportion of their revenue, they don’t want extra games, they get money from TV, but we don’t. We’re a completely different model.

"Any talk of us losing revenue and I’m just not backing it, don’t even bother asking."

The Football League have said the move would tackle fixture congestion, give players more rest and boost the finances of its member clubs.

But Holt hasn't been won over by those arguments.

"What the Football League is saying is that the loss of revenue is offset by some of these arguments and a greater rest for players. It’s nonsense, none of the ideas work," he said.

"At the end of the day if we don’t generate more revenue we can’t pay the players anyway. I’d like a home game every week, we need the income. We don’t get the crowds others get and we don’t get the TV revenue.

"I’m totally against it and I can’t see anything that is going to change my mind.

"If there’s less games fans will justifiably ask for season ticket prices to go down as well."

There has also been talk of playing FA Cup games in midweek as a result of the restructuring and potentially scrapping replays, something Holt insists would damage lower league clubs.

"That’s appeasement to the Premier League at our expense," he said.

"Every year we hope to get through a couple of rounds and get a big draw in the FA Cup, so there’s no way I’m going to vote to take that possibility away.

"I don’t want to be putting money into the club to keep it surviving and then the Football League take it out at the other end. I’d just give up, I’m not having that.

"It’s no good for Accrington. I don’t need to discuss it, it’s not even worthy of discussions at this stage for us."