>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.