New proposals that would see penalty shoot-outs introduced to decide all drawn matches in the English Football League are unlikely to see the light of day.

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 entertaining.

However, many within the game have ridiculed the suggestion, including Bristol City chairman Steve Lansdown who described it as a "crackpot idea."

"Chairmen I've spoken to think on the same lines as me," he told BBC Sport, "and managers make it clear it's not something they'd want."
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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.