Let me just nail my colours to the mast, I'm an Arsenal fan who is for the 6+5 rule, a paradox I hear you cackle. I'm a football purist and I believe that the essence of club football is that clubs are agents of the communities they take the name of, and that they should [...]

6+5 hit my inbox today, in the form of a Jack Bell interview with the president of La Liga, José Luis Astiazarán. Astiazarán discussed the potential impact of the rule on his league, clearly stating...

There#8217;s a PR battle of the heavyweight underway between FIFA President Sepp Blatter and Premier League chief exec Richard Scudamore. It#8217;s all based in Blatter#8217;s infamous (but probably never going to happen) 6+5 proposal. Sepp wants it introduced, Scudamore definitely does not, basically because 6+5=the end of the Premier League as we know it.

Preguntado por la situación del deporte rey en la actualidad, Johan Cruyff comentó al diario The Guardian su particular visión del estado del fútbol de nuestros días, señalando que las "grandes diferencias entre los clubes ricos y los pobres está causando graves perjuicios al fútbol, sobre todo en Inglaterra".

EPL chief Scudamore has been a busy little boy this week, rattling sabers, and proposing all sorts of wondrous rule changes. Changes that he thinks will save English football for Englishmen, stamp out debt, prevent another Leeds United style collapse, prevent unseemly characters from taking over clubs, and even had time to hail the Respect Campaign as an overwhelming success (link works best in Internet Explorer, ugh).