This will see mean a player who has been registered at a club for at least three years before their 21st birthday will be classed as 'home grown' regardless of their nationality.
Marcus Hall, Kevin Thornton, Isaac Osbourne and Ben Turner who all came through City's Academy plus Danny Ireland who joined when he was eighteen and the current crop of youngsters including Ashley Cain, Adam Walker, Curtis Wynter, Jermaine Grandison and Jordan Clarke would all qualify under this rule.
Today, the Premier League have agreed the principle of supporting a quota system for home grown players and this could come in for the start of the 2010/11 season.