For far too long we have had Premier League chairmen on international committees whose interests have been with the clubs and not the England team."The FA do not yet have an official position on whether they support the Uefa quotas on home-grown players. If the FA chairman and people on the international committee are not promoting it, what chance have we got?"We have had many foreign players who have more than added to the quality of our game but the pool of English players who play regularly is contracting. With Uefa pressurising the Premier League to adopt the measures in time for the start of the 2006-2007 season, the question of foreign footballers is set to become one of the most divisive issues in the national game.Uefa will also face opposition from clubs such as Chelsea and Manchester United over the quotas which by the 2008-2009 season are due to rise to eight home-grown players.Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, said yesterday that he supported the Uefa quotas and criticised the Football Association chairman Geoff Thompson, and Dein, for lobbying against them. A home-grown player must have been registered for a minimum of three seasons with the club between the ages of 15 and 21.By the start of the 2006-2007 season, three players from Arsenal's squad on Monday - the Frenchman Ga?Clichy, Philippe Senderos from Switzerland and the Spanish player Cesc Fabregas - will qualify as home-grown players.However, without another home-grown player - such as the injured Sol Campbell or the virus-stricken Ashley Cole - Arsenal's squad would have been illegal for Champions' League competition. What I am disappointed with is that they [the clubs] are failing to read what the fans want and they are losing touch with them.

Some extreme examples [Arsenal] are useful to show this but these [new quotas] will be the law of the game."Legal action is always a possibility in our society but we are ready to take that challenge. That is a dangerous situation."If the new rules had been introduced this season, not a single player in the Arsenal squad that beat Palace would have qualified as one of the four mandatory "home-grown" players - as defined by Uefa regulations - that will become a requirement for the top English sides by the 2006-2007 season.The new Uefa quotas, which will be ratified at a congress in Estonia in April, require that, for Uefa competitions, clubs must have four home-grown players, although those individuals do not necessarily need to be native to the country that they play in.Clubs must select two players who have been home-grown at the club and two who have, at the very least, been developed at a club in the same national association. UEFA has resolved to take legal action against Arsenal if they oppose rules that impose quotas of home-grown players on Champions' League sides, after the Highbury club picked an all-foreign 16-man squad for Monday's win over Crystal Palace. "The advertising against racism is good and I am grateful for it but in the end it is all about money We do the filming and then they sell the name," Eto'o said..

Peanuts were also reportedly thrown on to the pitch.The striker, who has scored 17 goals this season and who was also abused during Bar?s game at Albacete earlier in the season, responded by mimicking a monkey."People paid for their tickets to see a monkey and so I did it. I am an actor on the pitch, and they paid to see me," Eto'o said. "Each time that this happens then I will do it, the referee did not respond as the one in Albacete but everyone interprets it in their own way."Racist chanting has been prevalent at a number of matches in the Primera Liga this season and the situation came to the attention of a greater audience when the England internationals Shaun Wright-Phillips and Ashley Cole were abused during November's friendly between Spain and England at the Bernabeu in Madrid.Eto'o also agreed with comments made by Manchester United's Gary Neville that Nike's current anti-racist campaign is nothing more than a publicity stunt. Referees are all hated and seen in a bad light and if on top of this they were black, then you can guess what would happen."Eto'o, not for the first time this season, was on the receiving end of abuse on Saturday after monkey taunts reverberated around Real Zaragoza's La Romareda stadium following his goal in Bar?s 4-1 win. Samuel Eto'o, the Barcelona striker, believes the problem of racism in Spanish football has escalated to the extent that the authorities could never appoint a black referee as fans "would kill him". The Cameroon international, who has retained his title as African Footballer of the Year, spoke out before last night's tsunami charity match at the Nou Camp after another weekend of action in La Liga was tainted by racist chanting.When asked whether a black referee could ever take charge of a Primera Liga game, Eto'o said: "What? A referee here like the black referees in England? If one arrived here, then they would kill him. Arsenal were not the first club to field a foreigner in the League. He is one of numerous foreigners in the ban period (1931-78) allowed to play in England after satisfying long-time residency requirements and/or playing as an amateur for two years before signing professional terms.1978 The European Community in Brussels decides on 23 February that football associations cannot deny access to players on the basis of their nationality.