6+5= Correct! Even Sepp Blatter gets it.!

Sepp Blatter the FIFA President doesn't do much for me..usually....but he wants to introduce a new rule: At any given time 6 foreigners and 5 locals can play in an EPL and other national league sides.

Jesse Fink from SBS thinks he's wrong but I can't imagine there are any local fans in the World who would disagree.

The game has gone mad. Foreign imports galore, sometimes a whole team and then some.

And who doesn't get sick of the same old teams winning the same old leagues and even the Champions League is beginning to feel the same. How many new teams ever get into the last 16?

(And remember I support Celtic. A team which won the European Cup in 1967. All players were born within 30 miles of Glasgow!)

6+5 has to be good for all fans, all clubs and the future of the game in general. We need national if not local content at each club. So Sepp I'm on your side.

Also: As the J-League becomes the EPL of Asia this rule could help the A-League and other "lesser" leagues down the years as more Aussies stay home for longer.....so bring it on...NOW.

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I Fink he's talking Turkey. Did you gobble it up?

Jesse not finking this week

The thing about blogging is you can write some good stuff, some true stuff, some stuff you make up, and some stuff no-one will believe or think is any good because it probably isn't.

But when you write for a Professional Football site in Australia like our Jesse, "I want Nicky Carle, and Arnie must go", Fink.....every week you are clearly under pressure to write something, anything, that is different from the other columnists and hopefully it stirs the pot. Jesse Fink, of SBS, TheRoar and FoxSports, this week has done just that and it's ordinary innit!

Jesse says:

Hakan Sukur, the Turkish international and Galatasaray gun who nearly single-handedly got his nation to the final of the 2002 World Cup, had been knocked back by both Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory.

Others, like me, argue it was his amazing misses that ensured Turkey never got to the World Cup Final. Has a man ever missed so many sitters in such a crucial game?

That said Sukur was an excellent striker who had clearly passed his best in 2002 just six years ago. He was 30 then, now he's 36, and yes Jesse wants Sukur a striker here at 36!

Like Patrick Kluivert, Romario, and Jardel, and maybe Eugene Dadi, another striker wanting an easy final payday in Australia. Thank God no-one wants Kluivert either.

Sukur is 36! And Jesse I wonder where did he play last year? Serie A, EPL or even Bundesliga?

And no I don't want to see another non-running striker in Australia. Kluivert was finished 8 years ago or so and he's only 32. Suker, Romario, Jardel, Brian Deane, we've had them all and they are all too slow. Even Paul Agostino is giving me concern, but because he's Aussie I'm giving him more time.

Dwight Yorke, only Dwight, who came straight from the Premiership bench, and went back to the midfield via the World Cup and yes he too had lost his pace but he could adapt, he had skill, a football brain and he worked hard to make the thing happen.

No Jesse, Fink again and again. Not one of your finer blogs.

36 might seem young to you Jesse but unless they are some ball mastering midfielder who can control the tempo, has sublime skill, you can stick your overaged has-beens up your typepad. And give dear old Sydney a chance to get some credibility.

For God Sake Sydney already got one injured ageing star in John Aloisi make that two with Tony Popovich how many more do they need?

And for Sukur nearly single-handedly taking Turkey to the World Cup Final, Jesse mate you're talking Turkey.

Now how about writing a blog on the Canberra A-League team and why it would be good for Australia.

Come on that should fire a few more critics:)

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