Why we should keep penalty dramas and get rid of Blatter

Penalty shoot-outs have given us some of the greatest moments in sporting history, moments we wouldn't have missed for the world ........

..... but Sepp Blatter has admitted that tired players taking penalties is not an ideal way to settle drawn matches.

Instead he wants women in tight shorts to take them.

Blatter wants football to say goodbye to the penalty shoot-out and football wants to say goodbye to Blatter, preferably via a shoot-out.

He hasn't proposed a replacement but, given his track record, experts are not ruling out rock-paper-scissors.

Penalty shoot-outs have given us some of the greatest moments in sporting history, moments we wouldn't have missed for the world.

Moments like Antonin Panenka's impish dink that won the 1976 European Championship for Czechoslovakia, Jerzy Dudek's save from Andriy Shevchenko that handed Liverpool the Champions League in 2005, and John Terry's slip-up in Moscow in 2008.

Shoot-outs define a tournament. They distinguish the men from the boys. They decide between heroes and villains. And, more importantly, they delay News At Ten.

What'll be next Blatter ............................ Goal celebrations ????