Holding Midfield: Greenland: Northern Promise

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Michel Platini is selective about who he lets in through the doors of his private members club in Nyon and prior to May of this year he had good reason to be. Before this summer?s UEFA Congress in London any enquiries made by prospective members regarding crossing the veil and being ushered into the mahogany-panelled chambers of UEFA?s inner-sanctum were greeted with a polite but flat refusal. International football was full and diplomatic wrangling in the Mediterranean dictated that this would remain the party line. But 2013 has brought change. The gridlock that existed between Spain and UEFA over the accession of Gibraltar to their seat at the top-table finally gave way in London after almost a decade of grappling that twice saw the case go before the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and now Spanish threats to boycott international and club football no longer dictate Platini?s agenda when it comes to growing the football family. Further north in Greenland ears will have been pricked by the Gibraltar ruling, but with memories still raw from the last time the isolated Danish territory wooed the UEFA Exec Com toes will be dipped into icy waters with trepidation. That the globe?s largest […]

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