Radford wants Middlesex to nurture home-grown talent
The News Review:
- Radford wants Middlesex to nurture home-grown talent
- Foreign influx a ‘big danger’ for England, warns Gerrard
- Eriksson: Blatter’s Quota Proposals Are Unworkable
- Rocking the World
- If England Flop, Shall We All Blame Wenger?
- After strong start, Capitals trying to avoid catastrophic slump
- Resign… from what?
Radford wants Middlesex to nurture home-grown talent
CricInfo.com – Nov 15, 2007
html –>Coach says Kolpak solution not the way aheadRadford wants Middlesex to nurture home-grown talentCricinfo staffNovember 15, 2007Toby Radford, Middlesex’s newly-appointed coach, has backed. Speaking to the Islington Times, Radford said that he wanted to “develop players from within this country and, if possible, from London.
Foreign influx a ‘big danger’ for England, warns Gerrard
Belfast Telegraph – Nov 15, 2007
Since then the Liverpool manager has scouted players from as far and wide as Kosovo, Bulgaria, Austria, Australia and his native Spain to develop in the club’s junior sides. "It’s no good having one of the best leagues and a national team that is struggling," Gerrard said, "it is important to keep bringing quality players in – the likes of Wayne Rooney, Michael Owen – otherwise the national team will struggle. I am all for that [quotas of home-grown players]. I came from the Liverpool academy and now I am desperate for another young English player to come through into the Liverpool team. There is a big danger that we stop producing quality young kids because of the amount of foreigners in the game – it is worrying. "You have got to get the chance [as a young player] but you also have to understand the manager’s situation – these are big games to take risks with youngsters. But these youngsters will only become good players if they are given the chance and get the experience.
Eriksson: Blatter’s Quota Proposals Are Unworkable
Goal.com – Nov 15, 2007
However, Eriksson believes that such restrictions would be unworkable. The European Commission looks likely to agree with the City manager when its new Reform Treaty is signed next month. The EC is considering imposing a quota on clubs to ensure they employ a minimum number of home-grown players, but their nationality will be irrelevant as long as they have permission to work within the European Union. The Commission has also indicated that it will reject Blatter’s suggestion, as it does not intend to alter its freedom of movement legislation, or make any special exceptions for sports federations. Eriksson has been active in the international transfer market since taking over at Manchester City in July. He bought eight new players for the start of the season – two Brazilians, two Bulgarians, a Spaniard, a Croatian, an Italian and a Swiss national. In his view, the 1995 Bosman ruling, which allowed professional footballers in the European Union to move to another club at the end of their contract, opened a door that Fifa cannot now close.
Rocking the World
PR Leap – PR Leap (press release) – Nov 15, 2007
‘bottle trees’, including several baobab species, from Australia, Madagascar and Southern Africa) and the other one will mainly consist of American succulent plants such as cacti, yuccas and agaves next to Brazilian ceiba trees (Choriosa speciosa). Most plants of the new collection are home grown from seeds and hardly or not on display elsewhere in South Africa. The investment in the new rockeries is the first phase of a three year program during which all ‘gaps’ in the existing landscape of 10 hectares will be filled with different sphere gardens. In the beginning of next year excavagation works are scheduled for a very formal layout of sample gardens for the own nursery customers and the extension of the Langeberg Garden (in fact a maze without dead ends and home grown indigenous trees and shrubs). Since the official opening in December 2002 Soekershof Walkabout is increasingly attracting (amateur) horticulturists, garden societies, botanists, etc. from around the globe.
If England Flop, Shall We All Blame Wenger?
Goal.com – Nov 15, 2007
Then we have Ferguson. He had a great record of producing an outstanding crop of English talent in the mid-90s, the Beckham-Scholes-Butt-Nevilles G and P generation. But what have United produced off the home-grown conveyor belt since then? Brown, Richardson, Eagles and the like are solid but hardly spectacular; they don’t command places in Ferguson’s preferred starting XI. And we saw the quality of the latest crop of kids at Old Trafford when Coventry dumped them out of the Carling Cup this season. So Ferguson has sensibly devoted most of his and his scouts’ energies to buying (at eye-watering prices) the likes of Ferdinand, Rooney, Carrick, Hargreaves, Ronaldo, Nani, Anderson, Vidic, Evra, Saha, Tevez. The first four of those are English, but neither United nor Ferguson can claim much credit for discovering and nurturing their talent; they bought them “off the shelf. ” The others, surprisingly enough, are foreign, as are Van der Sar, van Nistelrooy, Forlan, Djemba-Djemba, Kleberson, Veron, Barthez, Pique, Schmeichel, Cantona, etc, etc.
After strong start, Capitals trying to avoid catastrophic slump
ESPN – Nov 15, 2007
Poti, who returned to action last week in Atlanta, averages about 25 minutes a night and that ice time has been doled out to players “who can’t handle it,” Hanlon said. “What it is right now, we’re making little mistakes that are turning into catastrophic results,” Kolzig said. When the team did not spend money on the free-agent market over the past two seasons, it relied on home-grown players to forge an identity as a hard-working group that might not win, but wouldn’t lay down. “And we hung our hat on that,” Kolzig said. This season, with the identity changing, with the addition of Kozlov, Nylander, Poti and Backstrom, “you take the losses harder. You grip the stick a little more tightly,” Kolzig said. Players and coaches acknowledge the expectations and early success have made this losing stretch more difficult.
Resign… from what?
Jamaica Observer – Nov 15, 2007
I can think of three men who are ideal candidates for an eight-by-nine-foot cell. In the interim, the move by Paulwell and Spencer indicates that all is not glitter, but there is more to the piecemeal move which shatters no new earth, neither does it present us with any immediate light. It is quite likely that at the end of the Trafigura investigation by the Dutch authorities, theirs and other findings may force some of our home-grown politicians to opt for residence in countries other than Jamaica. How will they ever afford it?
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