Football League clubs have agreed to consider a revolutionary proposal for penalty shoot-outs to decide all drawn matches as part of a wider review aimed at making the game more entertaining.
A meeting of the 72 league chairmen agreed to a working party being set up to consider the proposal among other ways of making their competitions more attractive.
The proposal was put forward by Football League chairman Brian Mawhinney, and would see all drawn matches in professional league games outside the Premiership go to a shoot-out.
Mawhinney said: "I suggested that for drawn matches each team gets a point and then maybe the team that wins a penalty shoot-out gets an extra point.
"Managers may hate shoot-outs but fans love them. The chairmen decided to use this proposal to have a broader look at a range of ideas that might refresh our product."
The league's working party will now seek other ideas from clubs and fans but will be limited by the rules of the game - for example they would not be permitted to abandon the offside rule.
The meeting also discussed where the end of season play-offs would be staged and Mawhinney said he was increasingly hopeful that they would be at the new Wembley stadium.
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