Blatter wants summer league games

Good old Sepp Blatter. Month after month you can rely on this man to scrape around that balding head of his to find a new way upon which he can leave his mark on the game. Just weeks after announcing the admittedly much needed introduction of goal-line technology at next year’s World Club Championships, he is quoted in a German magazine expressing his desire for summer leagues. Now call me old fashioned, but this I believe is quite ridiculous.

Blatter has proposed changing the fixture schedule of European leagues so that domestic seasons run through the summer months, claiming: "This would leave enough time for players to recover and there could be blocks of three weeks of national teams' qualifying games in winter." Meaning that instead of the season running September to May, the campaign would run from late February to November.

Summer is a time for breaks, barbeques, beaches and bikinis. BLATTER and his meddling preferences should stay well away! Besides, summer is just too hot for football. If you disagree, look no further than England’s lacklustre performances at this summer’s World Cup.

Whilst on the subject of World Cup, there is also the slight problem of when this, the biggest and most prestigious of all football competitions would be held, never mind the rescheduling of all cup competitions. The F.A. and English fans would surely not allow its hallowed F.A. Cup to be chopped and changed just as the Fifa fat cats see fit. Would they?

C’mon Sepp. I think even you have got to admit that this is just one stupid and random idea too far. I can’t help wondering if these schemes are thought up through boredom, or if he genuinely feels he is improving the sport. Whatever the reason, the joke that is Fifa president Sepp Blatter has to be stopped, for the good of the game.