English football roundup: Fifa to introduce quotas?

Sepp Blatter’s latest initiative — to introduce a law whereby clubs must field a quota of at least 6 home grown players has received Fifa’s backing at it’s annual congress in Sydney.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/30/1

This one has also been endorsed by UEFA president Michel Platini, which means that despite the uproar from European clubs, this may well see light of day. It may also reignite the movement by top European clubs to break away.

The Guardian also claims that Richard Dunne will join Spurs from Man. City and Southampton have replaced Nigel Pearson with Dutchman Jan Poortvliet.

The BBC says Wayne Rooney’s tackling is of concern to Fabio Capello the England boss :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/7426848.stm

I’m sure Colleen is also worried about the way he throws his tackle about.

Sky feature their Top 10 soccerette’s :

http://www.skysports.com/gallery/detail/0,20501,11096_3628409,00.html

One or two belters in this collection which I inadvertantly clicked on while I was cleaning my mouse. Certainly never intention shown on my part….coming dear ….Your Governmentship.

Teamtalk has awarded Chelsea’s Ashley Cole the title of “Villain of the year”

http://www.teamtalk.com/

Football 365 has an item on Roberto Mancini who is the favourite to land the job at Stamford Bridge :

http://www.football365.co.uk/story/0,17033,8652_3628473,00.html

Michael Owen believes Kevin Keegan has played a major part in turning Newcastle around:

http://www.4thegame.com/club/newcastle-united-fc/news/218978/owen_hails_keegan_influence.html

Derby County have signed Nathan Ellington and Jordan Stewart from Watford:

http://www.premierleague.com/page/Headlines/0,,12306~1321340,00.html

Dennis Law has warned Cristiano Ronaldo that he’ll be a loser if he walks out of Man. United:

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/39243/Legend-Law-warns-Ronaldo-You-re-a-loser-if-you-leave/

And that’s a quick round-up of current news doing the rounds.

This is the way I did it for the Derby Evening Telegraph. If you have any suggestions please let me know in the comments section.

Don’t forget the European Champs are starting very shortly.

I won’t be tipping anyone because when I did it on Football365 I was batting a million on the World Cup until I took out the official company Ront (Like Rand).

Then I couldn’t buy a result.