The EU is, slowly and among thousands of obstacles, in the process of building the castle of rules and provisions applicable to the most popular of sports, football, an edifice that was brutally demolished by the Bosman ruling and by the rigid and mechanical interpretation of it by most Community legal experts. The step taken by the European Commission this week (see yesterday's bulletin, p.9 and today's) lays down some essential principles.
The specific nature of sport, enshrined in the...