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Thread #112913   Message #2475239
Posted By: mandotim
24-Oct-08 - 05:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: Foreign-Farce Football
Subject: RE: BS: Foreign-Farce Football
You really don't understand much about football, do you WAV? FIFA as a body have proposed nothing of the sort you suggest; perhaps you should read the article you cite more carefully and critically. Sepp Blatter, the President of FIFA has suggested a form of quota, but in order for this to come into effect it would have to be voted for and passed the the FIFA council, made up of representatives from all over the world. Can you suggest why, for example, the many African, Eastern European and South/Central American countries who make up the majority of council seats would vote for a proposal that denies their poorly paid players full access to the most lucrative league in world football? Blatter is well known for mischievously floating this kind of idea, usually for his own political ends. (Such ends currently involve trying to bring the powerful clubs of Europe to heel under the FIFA banner). He has no authority to change anything without the approval of the FIFA council; and in the old phrase, turkeys don't vote for Christmas. Any such rule change would also have to be endorsed by UEFA for European competitions, and they can't because of EU law on mobility of labour and restraint of trade. (See above)Please try to confine your inane spoutings to things you know something about. Aussie Rules, perhaps?