Will Sepp Blatter get his way and will the likes of Arsenal be left counting the cost?

Before anyone jumps on the - 'only because I am an Arsenal fan' theory, believe me it is not... My view is about Human Rights - and have said many times before in similar bloggs, that trying to implement a maxium number of foreign players in any football team, for me would breech this rule. England has opened its gates over many years gone by, and welcomed many different nationals to live and work here. And as time has gone by we have many many different choices to make - for example - how many of us when going out for dinner choose - Indian, Thai, Chinese, Italian, Greek, French, Spanish etc etc, rather than an English Pub/Restaurant? I dont know the stats for the answer but I for one prefer to eat any of the above, rather than English food when out. (Off at a slight tangent, but not only the food, but the service is normally much better!) So, for example, I go to an Indian Restaurant, ten members of staff are working on this particular night, and funny enough, they are all Indian males. Are we now going to suggest, that in this particular restaurant there can only be 5 Indian males, the rest must be British???? OK - maybe an extreme example, but what is the difference? In principle, whether a footballer, chef, waiter or whatever, these are human beings who have sought employment in a different country for whatever reason. To start implementing some kind of change, will open up a massive 'can of worms' and maybe even court cases. In relation to England's football team - if the English players are good enough they will be scouted and play - but I think it is about time we all realised that someone (Sir Trevor) has got to get boys away from computers and back into the parks for a kick about, maybe then our youth set up will become stronger and produce a few more Beckhams, Butts, Scholes, Adams, Gerrerds etc. Stop looking for excuses, and let football be

Oh crap! I did it again! I clicked on the Sportingo link! The site that pushes out the most bollocks of them all! Even Man Reds site is more informative. In case you haven't read it yet The EU commission have already used their veto against this. blah blah blah! Sporting should be put out of business or at least been thrown away from newsnow! Bollocks and shit site!

There is no need to put up more barriers in sports. The barriers must come down. The world will benefit from a freer flow of talent.

There are too many english players in the premier league so cant we put a restriction on them? no one cares about englands national team anymore. the clubs are foreign owned with foreign managers and foreign players and in london a large proportion of foreign fans. In fact englands national team should be made up of foreigners. Arsenal fans. Proud to be English.

Every club would be hit hard by this ridiculous proposition. Blatter doesn't give a toss about 'national identity', he just doesn't want to see Premier League domination. In ten years every other league will be nothing compared to the PL and the Champions League will be a foregone conclusion. If this stupid rule ever gets put into effect this will halt the monopoly and lower the PL to the standard of the Eredivisie or lower.

Blatter is right and ...wrong as well. The law does not allow discrimination or restriction of employment on national lines within the EC. Football in England does desperately needs to address both the absence of young talent coming through as well as the growing disparity between the top four and the rest. This can be addressed by introducing rules on the adoption of academies. There is no restriction on EU nationals joining the academies of the various clubs but in practice it is more likely the home grown talent will benefit from legislation making compulsory quotas in squads from academies. The rules I would propose would be as follows: Each club names a squad at the beginning of the season of 25 players. From the 25 players for the first 2 years 40% of the same (10) must have been developed by the academy of that club. After that it should be 60% (15 players). Within a particular season 5 signings in or out can be made but retaining the minimum percentage of academy product. Under the present system Man Utd would not be greatly inconvenienced whilst Liverpool have only 2 academy products in their squad and Chelsea only John Terry. Players such as Fabregas would qualify as they made their professional debuts for the club; i.e. Arsenal. Teams would still be able to attract the top quality players but the middling squad players would make way for the clubs youth product. This is surely the way forward and would be EU compliant.

The sooner that Blatter is ousted from his dictatorial position within FIFA the better for all concerned. He is the most regressive force within the game. Restrictive changes for foreign players to control the levels of skill imported to different leagues. This will provide more stability for champions league and Big club sponsors. No video replay on big decisions. This would make match fixing almost impossible. English players are overpriced as a result of media hype and they tend to believe their own press when they play internationally up until the point that they get knocked out. The English manager that eventually wins a trophy will be the one that shuts out the press and picks as he pleases. Bans the WAGS and sends home any complainers. It would also probably help to inform his overpaid players that petulant red cards will result in end of international careers. Cost your country a tournnament and you dont play again ... EVER. The battle between xbox and football boots is the pivotal one in determining if Britian really does have talent.