Bellamy Thwarted In Bid To Lure Celtic's Osmand

Craig Bellamy has been thwarted successful his bid to guarantee Celtic guardant Callum Osmand could play for Wales.

The 19-year-old was calved successful Jersey, which allowed Wales to headdress him astatine under-16s and 17s.

But a alteration successful rules surrounding footballers calved successful nan Channel Islands intends he is now only disposable for England.

Osmand's Wales age-grade appearances were allowed because antecedently players calved successful nan Crown Dependencies that see nan Channel Islands could do so.

However players from British Crown Dependencies which are not afloat Fifa aliases Uefa members tin now only correspond England arsenic dissimilar chap Jersey-born Wales U21s subordinate Luke Harris, Osmand has nary Welsh heritage.

Similarly Australia-born Lyndon Dykes is eligible for Scotland done his Scottish parents.

"I for illustration him, but unluckily he's not connected nan radar to beryllium capable to play for us," said Bellamy.

"If he was it would person been a wholly different speech I would emotion to person had. I would liked to person talked astir it all."

Since Martin O'Neill and Shaun Maloney succeeded erstwhile Swansea City leader Brendan Rodgers astatine Celtic past month, Osmand has turned heads.

His first elder extremity came astatine Hampden successful their 3-1 Premier Sports Cup semi-final triumph complete Rangers and Osmand has been rewarded pinch a spot successful Celtic's Europa League squad.

The Crown Dependencies person a unsocial spot successful nan building of nan British Isles – nan King is caput of state, but they person their ain governments and are not portion of nan United Kingdom.

Jersey's attempts to subordinate Uefa were thwarted successful 2018 and nan islands are seen arsenic region shot associations wrong nan building of nan English Football Association.

For galore years a Channel Island-born subordinate could beryllium eligible for immoderate of nan 4 location nations arsenic they were British, but not specifically English, Welsh, Scottish aliases Northern Irish.

In practise nan norm was utilized very seldom – Guernsey's Ryan-Zico Black and Chris Tardif won younker caps for Northern Ireland astir nan move of nan millennium.

Osmond is nan first successful caller times to person utilized nan rules to suffice astatine younker level for Wales.

All nan Channel Islands' afloat internationals – Jersey's Graeme Le Saux and Maya and Matt Le Tissier from Guernsey – person gone connected to play for England, which is seen arsenic nan earthy spot to play successful islands that look straight northbound crossed nan Channel for their football.

Currently Guernsey's Bournemouth midfielder Alex Scott is looking closest to being nan adjacent islander to get a headdress – he was portion of England's victorious broadside astatine this summer's European Under 21 championships.