And now won it. Amazing game. Can't believe we've won a football World Cup! Didn't think I'd see it in my lifetime.
Yeah great stuff! Thought England were good value for their halt time lead, but seemed to run out of puff in the second half; still, they managed to guts it out, which was great to see. A very open free flowing game too.The peroxide haired ball player for Venezuela was very classy, and I liked the look of Onomah, Lookman, & Walker-Peters at left back(despite being a right footer!). Really though, England had several more excellent players in their line up/squad. Amazing what can happen when you send close to a full strength team for a change eh? Now the trick is for the clubs to actually pick some of these guys, rather than buying overseas players. Problem is of course, that many clubs are foreign owned & managed, and they don't give two hoots about England's national team, whatever they say...
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“Home Grown” and “Club-Developed” Player requirements in the EFLAt present, Section 5 of the EFL’s Rules and Regulations (“EFL Rules and Regulations”) requires each EFL club to nominate 6 home grown players on their team sheet for each league match (which includes Play-Off matches) (Rule 33.7).
Following the EFL’s recent announcement, EFL clubs have agreed to increase that number to 7 for the 2018-19 season.
A “Home Grown Player” is defined in the (Rule 33.8) as a player who:
- irrespective of their nationality or age, has been registered with either:
- their current club (who is a member of the EFL); and/or
- a club and/or any other football club affiliated with the Football Association (“FA“) or Football Association of Wales (for example, EPL or non-league clubs)
- for a period, continuous or non-continuous, of three seasons or 36 months prior to his 21st birthday (or the end of the season during which they turn 21).
Home grown player requirements were first introduced by the EFL in time for the 2009-10 season, with EFL clubs having to name at least 4 home grown players in what was then a 16 player match day squad, a quota that was subsequently increased in the 2011-12 season to 6 in order to reflect the increase to 18 player match day squads.