England Pay the Price for Multi-National Top Flight

The ScotsmanJune 13, 2007

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IT WAS Denis Law, proving as accurate a pundit as he was a predator, who first predicted that English football would pay a heavy price for the relentless influx of overseas players to their flagship league.

The great Scottish striker was speaking at the launch of his country's football Hall of Fame at Hampden almost three years ago, at a time when Scotland's alarming descent down the world rankings under Berti Vogts was at full tilt.

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England Pay the Price for Multi-National Top Flight

Law laid the blame for our international decline at the door of the Old Firm, pointing out the inevitable harm their policy of foreign recruitment at the expense of home-grown Scottish talent had on the national team. The Manchester United legend also warned ...

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