Allowing premier league u21s to play in the johnstones paint trophy. The FA are a complete joke! They care about nothing apart from the premier league. Won't be long before lower league football will vanish.
Sooner a premier league team goes tits up the better, would love to see one have a demise similar to what Rangers are going through.
I would say "of course they can" as long as they are on loan to a L1 or L2 club.... otherwise **** OFF
According to the article I read about this only Wimbledon opposed the plan the rest of the FL voted in favour of the plans.
I went to a do at the club last week at which Ben and Maurice were speaking. They raised the fact that the emergency loan system is being outlawed by FIFA/UEFA from, I think, next season. It was generally agreed that the biggest impact of this would be on young English players in bloated Premier League squads who will lose the chance of getting experience at lower levels. It would also impact the likes of Crawley who do not run youth teams and generally rely on young loanees from higher league clubs. We, on the other hand, should be at an advantage due to the investment we make in our Academy. It was also mentioned that this the main reason why Greg Dyke is pushing the idea of Premier club 'B' teams being allowed to join League 2. I suspect that the Johnstones Paint thing is for similar reasons.
Why don't the top two divisions organise proper reserve leagues, which are competitive. That would be a great innovation. Oh hang on a minute ............