Arsene Wenger, the Arsenal manager, believes that having a quota system for homegrown players would be a recipe for promoting mediocrity in the Premiership.
Wenger gave his opinion when speaking to about 500 people gathered at the Emirates stadium for a dinner organised by the on Thursday.
India's is richly ironic. When the International Cricket Council decided 15 months ago to hold the Indians were hostile to the idea.
So hostile that the ICC specifically agreed the tournament with the proviso that the Indians might not take part.
The ICC was nervous about going ahead without the potential economic juggernaut that is modern Indian cricket. In the end the Indians relented and the companies that are either based in India, or see India as a big market, were, in the end, prominent in South Africa.
Arsenal have become the first English football club to break the £200m income barrier.
Their results for last season, the first in their new Emirates Stadium, sees , a jump of £63m compared to the last year at Highbury.
The improvement brings into the big league of European earners.
A source at has given an interesting insight into the workings of Chelsea's new manager .
Grant was brought in as Pompey's technical director by co-owner Alexandre Gaydamak, much to the displeasure of Harry Redknapp.
Keith Edelman, the managing director, has been in touch with Daniel Levy, chairman of , to tell him Arsenal were not best pleased that Spurs had invited to be their guest at White Hart Lane for the North London derby on Saturday.
Peter Hill-Wood, the Arsenal chairman, told me he thought it was insensitive of Tottenham.
I have also heard more details of what took place at the Tottenham boardroom on Saturday afternoon.
Much has been written about being on the brink of their first outright County Championship title since – victory over Surrey this week would guarantee the crown.
Seventy-three years is a long time to wait and it is right that the focus should be on this Lancastrian cricketing hurt.
Olympic sailing gold medallist may want to reclaim the for Britain one day but someone did their best to scupper him out on Southampton water at the weekend.
Ainslie was skippering the former , the boat that is being used in preparation for Britain's next bid for the America's Cup (although it will be used in two pre-regattas in 2008, when the actual race comes along in 2009 a new, faster boat will be used).
Major celebrations are being planned to commemorate the centenary of the . The Royal Family and could be involved in the celebrations. I am told has already been approached.
This would be entirely appropriate. The 1908 Olympics saw London stepping in to help the when Rome, which had been given the Games, could not stage the event.
The Games itself saw the Royal Family play a big part. The House of Windsor, in effect, decided the distance of the modern marathon. Some 385 yards were added to the original distance. This followed the decision to start the marathon not from the centre of , as had been planned, but from the Royal nurseries at Windsor Castle so that the children of could see the start.
Arsene Wenger's decision to sign a new deal with Arsenal, a three-year contract which will see him at Emirates until 2011, will not only be a huge relief to Arsenal supporters but should come as no surprise.
For all , the former vice chairman now at logger heads with the Arsenal board, there was little prospect of Wenger leaving.
For sometime now the powers that be at the Emirates have been confident that Wenger will sign.
That he may leave was, of course, their great worry after the acrimonious parting of Dein.
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