Baghdad_Rob
Vital 1st Team Regular
Foreign players were pretty rare.
I remember Ipswich signing a couple of Dutchmen which sorted of started it off.
There was a cap in those days but I cannot remember how many.
I recall that Irish didn’t count as Foreign in those days for some reason.
Was there officially a cap or was it a case that players would rather play in Spain etc? Most of the time I don't think teams had more than a couple of players from outside the UK and Ireland. I'm not sure if the general lack of players was more down to then not being in vogue. Even when the Maastricht Treaty was signed it took a while for foreign players to start to come over and only really once Sky started to pump in stupid amounts of money into the game and the Italian owners started to almost bankrupt themselves that we started to be flooded with foreign players.