Premier League rejects salary cap proposal 23/02/2009 |
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The chief executive of the Premier League, Richard Scudamore, has rejected calls from Uefa for a salary cap to be imposed on clubs, arguing that increased regulation would not address inequalities at the highest level of the game. Of the proposal from the Uefa president, Michel Platini, to place a limit on wages, Scudamore said that he could not "really ever see it happening in England".
"If you say 60% or 50% can be capped on wages, what it really does is absolutely lock in the natural order," he told BBC Radio Five's Sportsweek programme yesterday. "It would help the big clubs far more than the small clubs. If you have a small club who have got a benefactor, or who have got other ways of raising money or ways of funding, at least it gives them a chance to compete."
The Football Association has ruled out any possibility of England meeting Scotland before 2011. Talks were held a year ago about reviving the oldest international fixture in the game but the plans were scrapped as the Scotland manager, George Burley, was reluctant to play the game without his Rangers and Celtic players, who were committed to tour matches elsewhere.
The Scottish Football Association is still hopeful of resurrecting the fixture but the FA has already filled England's international dates for 2009, with matches scheduled against Slovakia, Holland and Slovenia. The early part of the 2010-11 season has also been ruled out, so it will be at least another two years before the two countries – who last met in 1999, in a European Championship qualifying play-off – meet again.
Plans to introduce a 20-minute half-time break are set to be opposed by the FA if they are raised at an International Board meeting in Belfast next week. The Fifa chief executive, Sepp Blatter, is thought to support the idea, believing it would offer television companies the chance to sell more advertising slots.
"It is very unlikely we will be supporting it," an FA spokesman said.
(Source: Guardian.co.uk)
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