The EPL Doesn’t Need No Help Giving Foreigners A Bad Name-Especially From A Foreigner

Wow, this EPL/foreign players story doesn’t want to go away. In an exchange straight out of The Jerry Springer Show, the EPL has been lambasting French UEFA chief Michel Platini for, um, agreeing with their pro-Englishman stance on players. Yeah, we’re confused, too.

Platini… accused the Premier League of being “ultra liberal” and claimed that England’s failure to qualify for Euro 2008 was damaging the “soul” of the national game.

Obviously, the English didn’t take that so well.

“Premier League’s spokesman… Dan Johnson today insisted there was little wrong with the structure at elite level. “[Platini] should really mind his own business,” he said. “Uefa should look after the Champions League, Uefa Cup and the European Championships. We run the Premier League and we run it successfully, which is beneficial to the English game and that is our business and not Platini’s business.”

Oh, snap! If we were Michel Platini, we’d be looking out for flying chairs and a rampaging Steven Gerrard for our safety.
Premier League warns Platini to ‘mind his own business‘ [Guardian]
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