The draw for this season's Champions League was made earlier today and, as normal, it generated some interesting match ups. However, foar more interesting was UEFA President Michel Platini's vision for the future. He unveiled his proposal to revamp the competition from the 2009/10 onwards.

One of comments made by Platini is that  "We need to ensure football is more balanced so that the rich do not become much richer. If another proposal is better than my philosophy that is fine but I doubt they will come up with something better. Unless someone comes up with a fabulous proposal we will decide on mine."

So can you come up with something better?

Personally I don't see anything wrong with using the domestic cup competitions as a qualifier for the Champions League. After all it's not so long ago that we had the European Cup Winners Cup competition that was normally regarded as second only to the European Cup.

When it was scrapped seven seasons ago the Cup Winners spots were tipped into the unwieldy UEFA Cup. I see Platini's proposal as righting a wrong. The proposal could also boost domestic cup competitions across Europe which I can't see being a bad thing. Guaranteeing a group spot for the sixteen top European leagues also gets two thumbs up from me.

The Saturday final idea I really like as well as the stadium size and capacity. The suggestion for the UEFA Cup gives it a more dominant knock out flavour rather than the dominant and unbalanced round robin.

As for scrapping the bookmaker inspired Inter Toto Cup - would anyone notice if it was scrapped? It doesn't even serve a purpose for bookies anymore as technology has brought games from other parts of the globe "closer".