UEFA’S ‘HOME-GROWN’ PROPOSALS
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- UEFA’S ‘HOME-GROWN’ PROPOSALS
- SCOTS TO MAKE HOME-GROWN CHOICE
- CURBS PRAISE FOR YOUNGSTER NOBLE
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UEFA’S ‘HOME-GROWN’ PROPOSALS
Sportinglife.com - Mar 18, 2008
The controversial measures would see clubs limited to 25 players - of whichfour would have had to come up through their own ranks, with a further fourreared inside the same national association. European football’s governing body have been considering the move for somemonths but have now put together formal plans. Under these proposals, set to beagreed by UEFA’s executive committee in Nyon, there would be atransitional period starting next season building up to the full implementationof the rule in four years’ time. But many clubs have already expressed their opposition to both a limitation onsquad size and the proposed regulations governing players.
SCOTS TO MAKE HOME-GROWN CHOICE
Sportinglife.com - Mar 18, 2008
SFA chief executive David Taylor reported after Monday’s board meeting that a short-list has been drawn up - and he intends to spend the remainder of this week contacting the contenders. Former Rangers manager Alex McLeish, Dundee United boss Craig Levein, ex-Scotland midfielder Gary McAllister, Scotland’s current assistant boss Tommy Burns, Portsmouth assistant manager Joe Jordan and Kilmarnock manager Jim Jefferies are thought to be among the front-runners to be appointed as successor to Walter Smith, who resigned last week to return to Ibrox. The candidates will be invited for interview with Taylor, president John McBeth and two vice-presidents before the final decision is ratified by the full board. Smith led Scotland to the top of their European Championship qualifying group, which includes World Cup finalists France and Italy, before his departure.
CURBS PRAISE FOR YOUNGSTER NOBLE
Sportinglife.com - Mar 18, 2008
The club have moved from 10 points back to within touching distance of top flight survival since Noble was elevated to the first team a month ago. The 21-year-old was given his first league start of the season in the Hammers’ 4-3 home defeat to Tottenham and made an immediate impact, scoring from 25 yards. He struggled against Blackburn but shone again in the victories over Middlesbrough and Arsenal as West Ham moved from 10 points back to within touching distance of Barclays Premiership survival. Noble was born in Canning Town to a family of West Ham supporters and Curbishley believes his infectious commitment to the badge has sparked the Hammers’ turnaround… He is one of them and he demonstrates that. “When I came in I wasn’t quite aware that he was a Canning Town boy and all his family are so close to the club. “Perhaps that affinity of home grown talent is not there in a lot of clubs because there are so many foreign players in the Premiership. There is not a lot of home-grown talent at clubs and when you do find one it is great. Noble was sent out on loan to Ipswich by Alan Pardew earlier this season and had the chance to stay at Portman Road but could not turn his back on the Hammers. “I came back here and wanted to play and now I have got a foothold in the team and I am not going to lose it. I am determined,” he said.
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Sportinglife.com - Mar 18, 2008
The England and Wales Cricket Board, cricket’s governing body in this country,and the Professional Cricketers’ Association have become increasingly concernedwith the amount of non-English qualified players being signed by counties. Just over 70 players will turn out in county cricket this summer either asoverseas signings or cricketers eligible under the Kolpak scheme, cricket’sversion of the Bosman agreement which allows players from countries who havetrade agreements with Europe to play without being regarded as foreignrecruits. It has prompted the ECB to include plans in their strategic review forcricket, which is due to be launched later this month, for cash incentives forcounties who help the England selectors by grooming and playing home-grownplayers. Each first-class county currently receives around