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Allardyce: 'Work permit rules crucial'

Saturday, January 24 2015 by SNTV
  • Intro:

    West Ham United manager Sam Allardyce disagrees with the belief of his Arsenal counterpart Arsène Wenger that restrictions for non-European Union players should be scrapped. Wenger needs Home Office approval if he is to complete the signing of Villarreal centre-back Gabriel Paulista because the 24-year-old is yet to represent Brazil. The Hammers travel to League One Bristol City in the FA Cup fourth round on Sunday.

    Script:

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Sam Allardyce, West Ham United manager (on Arsene Wenger's claim that work permit regulations should be scrapped):
    "No, I don't agree with that at all because there's already a massive influx of foreign youth coming into academies, taking up academy places and us losing the opportunity for young British players to take up those places in academies. I think that that, for me, as an Englishman, is a real no-no for me. I'm sure Arsene, if he was working in France, might have a similar opinion to me, being a Frenchman, if he was working in France as an Englishman working in England. Protect your own. We very rarely do it in this country but we've got to try and protect our own. We haven't done it up until now but we've got to do it somewhere along the line and try and get more British players through and if we open up the doors, the floodgates would open and very very few British players would even get the chance to come to a football club then."

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Sam Allardyce, West Ham United manager (on Bristol City and the FA Cup):
    "We were only a minute away from winning at Everton and then we really should have been more comfortable at home but let the lead slip again but finally got through in the end. We all know, for us now, it would be a real waste if we've wasted all that time and energy and ability getting through that round against Everton to throw it away against Bristol City and not try and go as far as we possibly can. So this game is something that I think is very important to this season. It's been very successful in the league. Can we be very very successful in the FA Cup? How far can we go? Can we get a little bit of luck in the draws? We didn't have much luck in the first draw, drawing Everton away, but we've overcome that. We've got Bristol City, we've obviously got to be favourites to get through that but it won't be easy. Can we get another draw that gives us the opportunity of getting farther again? That's the object at the moment."

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