press clippings
Monday, 14 Jul 2008
will FIFA proposals for player quotas be an own goal for domestic football?
Pamela Abbott and Donna Reynolds write in the Scotsman
June is when professional football players take time to reflect on whether their performance over the season will be enough to justify an extended contract with their clubs.
For some, good form could earn them a big-money move elsewhere. For a gifted few, Euro 2008 gave an extra opportunity to showcase their talent and fulfil such ambitions.
In contrast, Fifa, football's governing body, is set to tackle the problem - as it sees it - of the prevalence of foreign players in domestic football teams...