Comments on: I can’t stand people who pretend to be something they’re not because they think what they really are is not acceptable https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/i-cant-stand-people-who-pretend-to-be-something-theyre-not-because-they-think-what-they-really-are-is-not-acceptable/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 16 Nov 2013 11:24:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: H. Prynne https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/i-cant-stand-people-who-pretend-to-be-something-theyre-not-because-they-think-what-they-really-are-is-not-acceptable/#comment-1368475 Sat, 16 Nov 2013 11:24:13 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=40551#comment-1368475 What a tedious woman.

]]> By: Ganni Abela https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/i-cant-stand-people-who-pretend-to-be-something-theyre-not-because-they-think-what-they-really-are-is-not-acceptable/#comment-1366764 Fri, 15 Nov 2013 08:14:22 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=40551#comment-1366764 Since Josanne mentioned football (she should have said soccer due to her American background), I have realised that the citizenship for sale law passed by Muscat and his band of not-so-merry men is also bound to land us into trouble with UEFA, the European football federation.

At present, UEFA limits the number of players who do not hold an EU passport who can be contracted by every team registered to an association affiliated to it. If I am not mistaken, that number is limited to three.

This inevitably causes problems for South American and Asian players who want to move to European teams to rake in the big money. Up till now the only way around this was finding ‘ancestors’ who are citizens of an EU country and trying to obtain a passport off their backs.

The process so far was laborious and time-consuming. So inevitably you find a lot of Brazilian players holding Portuguese passports and Argentinians holding Spanish passports playing in the major European teams. South American players who play in the EU on their passport of origin are far fewer.

Joseph Muscat has thus given the European football circus a handy shortcut to do away with this restriction which was designed to safeguard European football talent. It also happens to be cheap considering the figures paid for player transfers.

By next season I guess we’ll be seeing lots of ‘Maltese’ players playing in the Premier League, Liga and Serie A.

]]> By: Edward https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/i-cant-stand-people-who-pretend-to-be-something-theyre-not-because-they-think-what-they-really-are-is-not-acceptable/#comment-1366133 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 23:13:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=40551#comment-1366133 I thought she was against the scheme.

http://josannecassar.com/opinion/this-goes-beyond-partisan-politics/#comment-16324

]]> By: Yanika https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/i-cant-stand-people-who-pretend-to-be-something-theyre-not-because-they-think-what-they-really-are-is-not-acceptable/#comment-1365788 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:08:30 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=40551#comment-1365788 What did Philip Muscat do? He was also mentioned in the post of Marlene Farrugia. What is the deal with him? Thanks!

]]> By: Disconcerted https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/i-cant-stand-people-who-pretend-to-be-something-theyre-not-because-they-think-what-they-really-are-is-not-acceptable/#comment-1365787 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:07:48 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=40551#comment-1365787 What a try-hard with her ‘oddly baffling’. As they’d say in Mosta: lol.

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/i-cant-stand-people-who-pretend-to-be-something-theyre-not-because-they-think-what-they-really-are-is-not-acceptable/#comment-1365777 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 19:58:56 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=40551#comment-1365777 Spoken like someone who has nothing to lose.

Is she still freelance?

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