Compelling Soccer

Last week, news broke about the Premiership instituting a home grown player quota on it's squads starting next year. What does that mean? In short, every team in the Premiership is required to name a 25 man roster at the end of each transfer period (August and then in January) in which no less than eight players are "home grown".

Naturally, I had questions about it. A mandate on "home grown" players? I tried to imagine what it would be like to see such a rule implemented in baseball, hockey or basketball here. What if MLB decided that 15 home grown players were necessary per team. What would that do? It seemed strange at least and a bit xenophobic at worst.