Football Association chairman Greg
Dyke has found his plans for a new 'League Three' involving Premier League
clubs' B teams to be the object of derision.
Dyke unveiled a raft of England Commission proposals at Wembley, aimed
at boosting the number of English players at the top of club football.
Also included were plans for special loan relationships between clubs,
overhauling the work permit system and increasing the number of home-grown
players in squads.
It’s right that the commissions’ plans have been criticised
because they’re stupid and majorly flawed, and it seems that outside of the
members of the commission no one in the game has a good word to say about them.
The aim of trying to improve the national team and
get more English players playing is admirable but messing up and undermining the
whole football league structure isn’t the way to do it.
I don’t see how young emerging players playing in a
B-team against the likes of Hartlepool or Mansfield is any more beneficial for
them than the current system where they play each other in a youth league or
any better than if they’re sent out on loan to a lower league team.
If this commission really wanted to improve the
number of England players playing then the home-grown rule should exclude
non-British players because now when a foreign player joins a club under a
certain age and is there for five years they’re considered home-grown, like Bendtner
with Arsenal, that rule should be tweaked to stop that.
You could also introduce a rule that states at least
10 players in the 18 man match day squad should be home-grown and one step
further could be at least five have to be in the starting XI every week, that
would make more of an impact than giving clubs the option of dumping all their
young players in a B-team and allowing them to play against Morecambe and
Newport.
That's
not going to prepare them for life in the Premier League or help England win
the World Cup by 2022.
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