Summary
IT is the kind of question which would permit Uefa's technical study group to waste hundreds of man hours in endless pondering. Was 2004 the year in which European club football became more egalitarian again? And, if so, why are our impoverished Scottish teams still faring so badly?
Whilst Andy Roxburgh, Jozef Venglos, Berti Vogts and co no doubt prepare a detailed treatise on the subject, it is worth filtering through some preliminary evidence. For, in theory at least, Porto's victory in an improbable Champions League final against Monaco, coupled with the introduction of a group stage into the Uefa Cup, did appear to be prime exhibits suggesting we had entered into a brave new corinthian epoch of European football in which teams outwith the bigger leagues would once again be permitted to prosper.See the full content of this document
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Minnows Point to Brave New World
This was certainly the subtext in the year's other main development within Uefa administrative circles - the audacious move to ensure that every team had up to eight homegrown players in a s...
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