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Thanks for that endorsement, Rhuby.
Actually (at least for Spurs fans), the Ricky Villa/Ossie Ardiles/Glenn Hoddle years weren't too bad either...
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It was also, I think, one of the locations for Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
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shanks asserted that Actually (at least for Spurs fans), the Ricky Villa/Ossie Ardiles/Glenn Hoddle years weren't too bad either...
As a Gunners fan, I must reluctantly concede the truth of the above statement - Ossie was great!
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>Ossie was great!
Yes, those were indeed the days of the great British football player.
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Yes, those were indeed the days of the great British football player. Jo Two objections. 1. When was there ever a 'British' national football team? 2. Since when did you decide to pass the Tebbit test?   (From one who lived in Fulham, close to Craven Cottage, when Fulham Football Club fans were almost exclusively National Front... alas)
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when Fulham Football Club fans were almost exclusively National Front... alasIt doesn't seem to matter shanks - all yobbo football fans seem to go to the National Front for training in how to participate in post-match functions, anyway! 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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>Since when did you decide to pass the Tebbit test? I just thought I'd try it on for size ! I was living in North London when Villa & Ardilles came to Spurs. I think that a rule had only very recently been passed allowing each club to have up to two players from outside Britain. I seem to remember that they were the first (successful) example of really successful international players joining a UK club. [The rule may have been a small recognition that our concept of ourselves as the world's premier footballing nation may have been a delusion.] Hence the poor attempt at irony.
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[The rule may have been a small recognition that our concept of ourselves as the world's premier footballing nation may have been a delusion.] Hence the poor attempt at irony.
The world's 'premier' football nation? The Hungarians pretty much did for that in 53 (was it?) with Puskas and co.
Sorry I didn't catch the irony...
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>Sorry I didn't catch the irony... No, you caught the delusion instead !
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