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Technically, it's incorrect. You are supposed to use "less" when it's a quantity of mass -- such as pot of soup or just an amount of food in general (rough amounts of things that you can't count on your fingers, for example). You are supposed to use "fewer" when there are individual items you can count and enumerate, such as candy canes.
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/CMS_FAQ/LessorFewer/LessorFewer01.html
Or you can think of it as "I would like less Grygera" (e.g., less time he plays on the pitch) versus "I would like to see fewer Grygeras" (fewer players like him on the team).
Because the word "items" can be enumerated up to 10 for the sentence to even make any sense, "fewer" is the correct word and not "less". However, if instead of "items" it was a unit of measure, such as "10 liters of beer," "less" would have been the correct term instead of "fewer".
We hope you enjoyed this English Grammar 101 lesson this holiday.
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/CMS_FAQ/LessorFewer/LessorFewer01.html
Or you can think of it as "I would like less Grygera" (e.g., less time he plays on the pitch) versus "I would like to see fewer Grygeras" (fewer players like him on the team).
Because the word "items" can be enumerated up to 10 for the sentence to even make any sense, "fewer" is the correct word and not "less". However, if instead of "items" it was a unit of measure, such as "10 liters of beer," "less" would have been the correct term instead of "fewer".
We hope you enjoyed this English Grammar 101 lesson this holiday.
Heavenly.
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