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With eight runners each-way betting looks attractive and if the younger brigade falter

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With eight runners each-way betting looks attractive and, if the younger brigade falter, Bob's Return (14-1, William Hill) might be overpriced.3.45: All these are entered in the St Leger except Luhuk, whose best form has been at 10 furlongs, and BROADWAY FLYER can win what should be the definitive trial for the final Classic. His Gordon Stakes victory showed that he is ideally suited by being able to dominate small fields, as he held off the challenge of Suplizi. That running gives him the measure of Sacrament, to whom Suplizi had been second when conceding weight, and John Hills's charge can progress further as he puts the sickness which blighted his Derby chance behind him. The unbeaten Double Trigger makes his seasonal debut, but his trainer has stated that the horse will probably be some way from his racing weight, while the form of his Zetland Stakes win last autumn has not grown in stature in his absence.4.15: With a big field and the stalls on the stands' rail a low draw may help and SIR JOEY, who is in the five berth, has the right credentials. Impressive over this track last month, he is only 4lb higher in the weights now Just 14-1 with Ladbrokes, he is 25-1 with Coral.. AS A free spirit whose ideal holiday would be back-packing around the United States, Jurgen Klinsmann might appreciate better than his new Tottenham team-mates the physical and cultural journey undertaken by the first foreigner to appear in British football. Max Seeburg was also a German forward who, by odd coincidence, played for Spurs.

Like Klinsmann, for whom the English experience starts in earnest at Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday, he too made a late-summer debut in Yorkshire, which in 1908 meant an arduous trek indeed. Klinsmann must hope the similarities end there. Not only did Spurs lose to Hull, but Seeburg's first League outing proved to be his last. Strange to reflect, then, that such an ill-starred 'career' blazed a trail for Osvaldo Ardiles, Arnold Muhren and Eric Cantona, whose impact has in turn paved the way for a new platoon of football's foreign legion in the aftermath of USA '94.Exactly seven decades separated Seeburg's sojourn from the advent of Ardiles which, curiously, also followed a World Cup from which England were absent. During that time the main overseas influence came from South Africa, with George Robledo and Bert Trautmann two celebrated exceptions.Robledo, a stocky goalscorer whose brother Ted played alongside him for Newcastle, had somehow been exiled near Barnsley after a revolution in Chile. Trautmann was a German POW in Lancashire when he first tried his hands at goalkeeping, going on to become a Manchester City legend.He married a local girl, but on being sent off in 1962, Trautmann famously railed against 'bloody English referees.' Nor was the host nation immune to xenophobia, as demonstrated by Tommy Smith's welcome to Ardiles and his fellow Argentinian, Ricardo Villa.The former Liverpool hard man dismissed the pair as 'fancy flickers' after playing against them for Swansea. Spurs, he sneered, 'ought to buy a good stock of cotton wool for such posers'.With his thrillingly fluid surges from midfield and seemingly telepathic link with Glenn Hoddle, Ardiles won over Smith and an entire football community.

Moreover, the interest he generated, not to mention his giveaway price of pounds 325,000, soon prompted others to follow suit.Sheffield United, whose manager Harry Haslam was well connected in South America, was offered an unknown 17-year-old prodigy. The board deemed the deal too risky and took Alex Sabella instead of Diego Maradona. Meanwhile, those wanting to take a dip rather than a plunge were busy recruiting inexpensive Dutchmen and Yugoslavs.Ivan Golac, now manager of Dundee United, made his bow for Southampton a week after Ardiles's debut. His swashbuckling full-back play earned him cult status at The Dell and, after returning to Yugoslavia, he came back because he felt 'homesick for Hampshire'.'It's a very specific game in England, best suited to powerful players, and I had the physique,' Golac explained. 'I also worked hard and prepared 150 per cent for every game.

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