The Football League play-offs are set for Cardiff again, as the FA have failed to assure the Football League that Wembley will be ready in time.
With the FA Cup scheduled for Wembley a week before the play-offs, most observers believed that the play-offs would be a certainty for the new national stadium. However the Football League have major misgivings about the readiness of the new stadium, which is yet to receive the necessary health and safety certification, and have to give the Millennium Stadium owners a definite answer by the end of February.
Speaking to the BBC, one Football League insider stated: "The FA has been unable to give the sort or assurances the League needs. The League was very keen to hold the Johnston Paint Trophy in April as a warm-up event but the FA wanted to stage its own warm-up events to be sure of the Cup final and the league had to move it to Cardiff, and now it looks very likely the same will happen to the play-offs."