How the Champions League and the rest of elite football might have looked if players had to name six homegrown players in an XI
Over the course of his 17 years as the most powerful figure in world football, Sepp Blatter was memorably characterised by the venerable British sportswriter Brian Glanville as someone who had 50 new ideas every day, “51 of them bad”.
’s clampdown on both time-wasting and the dreaded “tackle” from behind. Before he became an eccentric power-crazed ’s congress voted overwhelmingly in favour of a resolution in 2008. ’s then president Michel Platini said that while it might contravene European Union regulations allowing the free movement of workers, he welcomed “the philosophy and objectives of the rule” and hoped the EU legal framework would allow 6+5, or something close to it, to be established. Within the game, the only strong opposition came from the .