Thread: Blatter Still Forging Ahead With Foreign Player Rule
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Old 30th May 2008, 20:13   #130 (permalink)
green demon
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Originally Posted by marcus agrippa View Post
i mean, Beckenbauer has the temerity to say that the reason England didn't qualify for the Euros is because of the number of foreigners in the club game. surely he's old enough to remember English clubs dominating Europe in the late 60s, through the seventies and early eighties, when the majority of domestic teams fielded largely an English contingent. was England a powerhouse then?
The top English clubs of the time were full of Scots and Irish, both North and South as well as a few Welshmen.
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