Activities Since Leaving Arsenal
Since his departure from Arsenal David Dein has continued to remain active on the football scene. He continues to attend all of Arsenal’s home matches and is present at most international tournaments as a guest of UEFA and FIFA. He continues to provide his views on all the major issues of interest relating to the future of football around the world; be it in media interviews or at conferences and many other public speaking engagements including at schools across the UK. Topics that he has addressed include foreign-ownership of clubs, club finances and levels of debt within the game, goal-line technology (of which he’s a strong advocate), youth development and the development of women's football.
In March 2009 he addressed the European Parliament in Brussels calling on FIFA to scrap its proposed 6+5 rule arguing that players should be picked by clubs on the grounds of talent and not nationality. He also called on clubs to be allowed to continue to buy young talent from abroad arguing that it would be wrong to deny the most talented young players the ability to develop in the most suitable environment wherever that may be.
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