Still discrimination as they are not getting an equal chance at work/promotion/pay/whichever way you want to look at the 'benefits' of first team appearances. The FA are guilty of not seeing this coming when the EU Directive was first proposed - they should have been lobbying for an exemption...
While I completely agree with you the first EU Directive specifically forbids these types of restriction of work by member states.
It won't be long before UKIP jump on this as the reason for all football fans to vote for them! Withdraw from the EU to improve our national squad! How bizarre!
So when most clubs in FL/PL have a wages to turnover ratio in excess of 100% let propose that all the clubs can create another team of players (because so many teams have enough fit/uninjured players that the loan system is massively under used) and play them in the leagues too. What a...