und was auch immer alte Leute in der Schweiz so tun ...

Seppy: the time has come for you to look at cows, go walking more, learn to yodel and whatever else old people in Switzerland do ...

FIFA's new idea to have a minimum of 6 people domestic nationals in each club team, however right or wrong it might be ethically* (and I personally could not be more against it - see below), falls down regardless at the most important hurdle: being practicable and legally viable.

It goes against EU laws, so it does not matter what Sepp Blatter or FIFA thinks. That is a reality - football associations write rules not laws. Personally, I think that is wonderful (at least in all the cases I can think of), because football associations are irrelevant. Football is / should be / was fun. Please do not take yourselves too seriously football officionados.

The following quote explains why I am ideologically so in opposition to the idea:

"Football is touched by political dimension. We are going to discuss tomorrow (measures) to protect our game, to protect our national teams, to protect the national identity of the clubs and to give motivation to young players" (Blatter, 30.05.2008)

from: http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2008/05/29/sport/blatter-opens-fifa-congress.html

If anyone can convince me away from my position that national identity is an attempt to maintain dynamic generationally changing cultures into a turgid stasis and, although probably unintentionally, is the basis of racism, then I would be interested to hear the argument(s).

I think Michel Platini's suggestion to revert the Champions League to a one country-one club participation, so that every European country automatically has one representative and no (rich) country has four appears on the face of it to make a lot of sense and could provide new vigour to poorer European economies. Still, I do not know enough about that.

For the time being, it is time to retire Blatter.

*these discussions have consequences outside the passion many have for the game itself.