Blatter Still Forging Ahead With Foreign Player Rule

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afrocentricity

How so?

marcus agrippa

i can't speak for everyone else, of course, but personally i'm strongly against any artificial constraints imposed on the game beyond purely sporting considerations.

i'm not sure how the rule, if brought into play, is supposed to work. suppose you start off conforming to it, 6 local-qualified lads, and 5 foreigners. you have to choose a bench, right? - how does one go about doing that? bear in mind that during the course of a game, substitutions due to injuries, tactical considerations or sendings-off are all possible. do you still have to preserve that 6+5 ratio? - and how can you possibly legislate for unforeseen circumstances? - will there be exceptions in these circumstances, and, if so, then what's the point?

this is to say nothing about the special situation that is the UK and Ireland. i mean, the likes of Giggs, if he's still around, will be classed as a foreigner, despite his being more Mancunian than some of us.

once purely sporting considerations go out the window, what is left is a bureaucratic mess. methinks a lot of people haven't thought this through. typical politicians. the lawyers will have a field day.

AhmedDimwitson

free movement on labor is one of the absolute fundamentals in the European Union - there is not a chance in hell they will change opinion on this.

ThatOldRedMagic

Not sure about your latter point, but yes, he will ruin English football at any rate. The irony is that the expression 'a level playing field' emerged from football, whereas he clearly wishes to tilt it somewhat.

marcus agrippa

this is another reason i'm against it on general principle. call me paranoid, but i've always believed that the rest of Europe has some kind of grudge against English club football particularly, and will do whatever it takes to stop its domination.

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?

no, there's something fishy, and Blatter, the Anglophobic cunt, is at the heart of it.

giggs-beckham

Soforgive me but is this stupid 4 then 5 then 6! rule coming in? or are the EU gonna stop them due to freedom of employment? or do we not know yet?

Blatter was saying on news that its going ahead due to a majority vote in the rules favour.

Making it mandatory to have 6 english players in the starting eleven of teams i gonna be so tough. the quality of this great league will plummet rapidly.
Something has to be done to stop this shit.

giggs-beckham

To be honest if the rule was there has to be at least 3 homegrown players in the team, that would be a good idea as its not good seeing teams like arsenal with like no english players in the team.

ThatOldRedMagic

No it won't - you either trust the market or you interfere. Interference equals protectionism, socialism, bureaucracy, meddling, the law of unintended consequences - a dog's breakfast at best and a nightmare at worst.

Trust the market - it always delivers quality for those who work the hardest and show the greatest hunger. (United to you sir!)

green demon

The top English clubs of the time were full of Scots and Irish, both North and South as well as a few Welshmen.

marcus agrippa

i'm not talking about the top teams. i'm talking about the league as a whole, specifically first and second divisions.

marcus agrippa

FIFA was always going to ratify the rule. doesn't mean it'll fly in Europe.

this is not the 'homegrown' rule, since that could in principle apply to a lad from anywhere in the world.

what Blatter is proposing is strictly a nationalistic rule, backed by a nation-centric organisation.

it'll be interesting to see how they apply this to, say, a club like Cardiff City.

ThatOldRedMagic

This thread is about a subject which is so important for the future of the game; it needs a bump.

ralphie88

It will not be implemented, it's illegal.

Name Changed

This is stupid. It won't happen. It is illegal. Blatter is a knob.

Drifter

Lord Triesman, the FA chairman, wants to use the FA Cup as a trial for Sepp Blatter's proposals to limit the number of foreign players each club can field.

While Triesman believes Blatter's proposals will be rejected by the EU on anti-discrimination grounds, he remains concerned by the lack of young English players breaking through at club level. In an attempt to allay those concerns, Triesman is ready to draw up plans to increase the number of British players involved in the FA Cup.

"The FA Cup is directly within our domain and if we want to implement change we need to do that in conjunction with the Premier League and Football League," he said.

"Whether there are legal restraints or not there can be a means of implementing an optimum number of English players participating in the FA Cup.

"Sir Alex Ferguson has come out in support of this, stating his view that there should be more English players in major club competitions, and conceivably, there could be.

"Of course, it's very dangerous to try to enforce a minimum number of English players - but it can be achieved in ways other than enforcement."

Red Indian Chief Torn Rubber

Fuck Lord Triesman