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Former RC Liege player has had more of an impact on European club football than any other player, including Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi
The finger-jabbing over who caused the mother of all divorces has begun in earnest among so-called Remoaners – those who voted to remain in the European Union but lost in last year’s Brexit referendum.
British Prime Minister Theresa May dispatched a courtier to Brussels this week with the formal letter to start the two-year leaving process.
The phoney naming and blaming game is over. But where to start, and who and what to blame? The culprits are many, and that’s not counting the 17.4 million who voted out.
The witch-hunt could begin in the fair Brussels city of Liege, because that’s where the Remoaners should find Jean-Marc Bosman.
The former RFC Liege player has had more of an impact on European club football than any other player – and that includes Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.
And his crusade to change employment laws in football exposed the many flaws in the EU’s core free movement of labour rule.