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PFA Proposes Minimum Of Four Homegrown Players On Premier League Rosters

EPL clubs would have to field a "minimum of four home-grown players" in their starting 11 each week under a "new proposal from the Professional Footballers' Association," according to Oliver Kay of the LONDON TIMES. PFA CEO Gordon Taylor is "seeking parliamentary support for his plan, which is aimed to increase opportunities for English players, before raising the matter with the FA, the Premier League and the Football League." Taylor held talks with Jon Cruddas, MP, the Labour Party’s "policy review co-ordinator," on Sunday and plans to meet Government representatives to "push his case for clubs to field a minimum of four home-grown players, at least one of them a product of their youth academy." Taylor: "The key is starting on the field of play and to have at least four home-grown players, of which one should be club-grown. With so much money going into youth development, we need to see some return from that. The fallout rate has been so high that if we were a university we would probably have been closed down" (LONDON TIMES, 9/22). The PA reported Taylor "also wants political support for the PFA's backing of the 'Rooney rule' to encourage more black and ethnic minority coaches -- there is only one black manager in the 92 league clubs, Chris Powell at Huddersfield." The "Rooney rule," used in the NFL, would "oblige clubs to shortlist at least one black/ethnic minority candidate for each coaching position." Taylor is also pushing for the FA board to "include representatives from the PFA, fans and the League Managers' Association" (PA, 9/22).

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