Originally Posted by BBC.co.uk

Penalty shoot-outs to decide drawn games is one of the ideas a Football League working party will investigate. The League's 72 club chairmen set up the working party to look at ways of making the game more attractive.

The idea of shoot-outs to award a bonus point has been roundly condemned by managers and some club chairmen.

League chairman Lord Mawhinney said: "It's important to look from time to time at what we're offering and whether it's as good as it could be."

The proposal for drawn games would see each side awarded a point, but a penalty shoot-out would decide the destination of a bonus point.

If the idea gains enough support, it will be presented as a motion for a rule change at the Football League's annual general meeting in June.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger said: "I saw this in my first year managing in Japan - it did not have spectacular results."

He added: "In extra-time they played a sudden death goal and if no-one scored they had penalties.

"The draw is part of the culture of the game and I would not like that to disappear."

The idea was originally put forward in the recent Football League Fans Survey.