It is quite amazing the way Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have come up with things they believe will make the beautiful game of football better. In its reality, the things they have come up would most likely be detrimental if implemented and agreed upon by the rest of the footballing world. First is blatter's idea on a foreign quota that allows atleast 5 home grown players on any starting line-up. As an adept follower of the English premier league, I would like to look at the effect of this on the league. The best players in the world(in terms of creativity and how much fun they are to watch) are from south america, AFRICA, southern europe. Of these three areas, only southern europe housing the likes of spain and portugal have likely capabilites as the English premier league. When fans turn to watch the beautiful game, they want to see football being played in a beautiful manner. Watching most english player based team in the premier league, you will die of boredom as they just quick the ball up high and hope to fondle the ball into the net-the likes of bolton, westham, chelsea and tottenham, derby and so on. Introducing foreign players to the league has made the league the most watched and investment drawing league in the world. For example, "Allow me to draw a comparison between two teams; Arsenal and Tottenham. Not more than eleven years ago these were two clubs of the same size (Tottenham perhaps bigger) with pretty much the same level of success and size of fanbases. One club decides it cannot and will not afford self-indulgent, overrated, playboyish and exuberantly over-priced English players who are so over-priced because they have one or two caps for a second tier footballing nation. Instead they chose to unearth some of the biggest talents in world football at a very low cost but high reward for the viewing public. This club, predominantly through its transfer policy, is now a hugely successful and financially stable entity with a brand new stadium- paid for with the board and the manager's shrewdness- and has billionaires falling over eachother to buy into it, which the club doesn't need. The other club however is languishing, being dragged down slowly by mediocre English players on staggering salaries and more often than not coming off the back of huge transfers (Bent, Jenas, Dawson, Lennon, Robinson, Defoe.)".
Secondly, is the issue of cup winners getting to the champions league, when slavia prague plays rosenborg, how many people turn up to watch this game compared to AC Milan playing Barcelona?My case is closed on this one.
