Sportsmania Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 (edited) We are very pleased to announce Ossie Ardiles will be joining us for Sportsmania! Ossie was a cult hero at Tottenham, arriving with Ricky Villa shortly after both of them had won the world cup with Argentina. He made 221 appearances for Spurs, and went on to a long management career, which included Spurs! Edited April 30, 2007 by Sportsmania Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A007 Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 Will he have any "Escape to Victory" photos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aspen Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 Spurs Mark please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sportsmania Posted April 30, 2007 Author Share Posted April 30, 2007 Spurs Mark please I'm sorry! Mark Will he have any "Escape to Victory" photos? I certainly intend to have some Escape to Victory pics!!! What a film!!!!!!!! Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightymax Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 Good guest, no all we want is BOBBY CHARLTON!! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A007 Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 (edited) "Escape to Victory" is the best football film ever made, nice one Mark! Edited April 30, 2007 by A007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Count Fooku Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 Moving slightly off topic but getting a few more members of the Escape to Victory cast would be great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpharris Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 A legend, great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 ex-Swindon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philmerv Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 Tottenham FA Cup winners reunion - Seriously good guest Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 OMG! I love you Mark Ossie and Ricky were my idols as a kid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lallen Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 We are very pleased to announce Ossie Ardiles will be joining us for Sportsmania! Ossie was a cult hero at Tottenham, arriving with Ricky Villa shortly after both of them had won the world cup with Argentina. He made 221 appearances for Spurs, and went on to a long management career, which included Spurs! With Ricky Villa, the first foreign players to play in the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 With Ricky Villa, the first foreign players to play in the UK. You are joking with that statement aren’t you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzlerjames Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 Villa and Ardilles were indeed the first "foreign" players to be brought into the UK to play in the English League. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Count Fooku Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 I would have thought Bert Trautmann would have been one of the earlier non Biritish Isles player in the UK. That said I'm not sure what his legal status was due to his time spent in the UK as a POW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 Villa and Ardilles were indeed the first "foreign" players to be brought into the UK to play in the English League. Only almost 70 years out... Ever heard of: Max Seeburg or Nils Middelboe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzlerjames Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 No I hadn't actually! But now I've looked I know why - neither really set the game alight (and I don't tend to follow football from before the late 70's when I was 5 or 6!!) I guess I should have explained better. They were (to my knowledge) the first players from outside of europe to appear in top flight English football. I remember at the time it being massive news and a major coup for Spurs which we didn't see again till signing Klinsmann in the mid 90's (he'd be a great guest!). Both Ossie and Ricky are really friendly and happy to chat and pose for photos. Frank - why so aggressive in your responses?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Count Fooku Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 Perhaps his name is Frank Seeburg or Frank Middelboe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lallen Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Villa and Ardilles were indeed the first "foreign" players to be brought into the UK to play in the English League. Only almost 70 years out... Ever heard of: Max Seeburg or Nils Middelboe Max Seeburg, although born in Liepzig, moved to the UK at the age of two, so never played football before moving to the UK. Nils Middelboe I will give you, and that was almost 95 years ago. But OK if you want to be more specific then I will rephrase my response and will state that Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa opened the doors to the modern trend of clubs going abroad to purchase world class players, which has become the norm in todays Premiership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzlerjames Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Perhaps his name is Frank Seeburg or Frank Middelboe! Very good - never thought of that!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 But OK if you want to be more specific then I will rephrase my response and will state that Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa opened the doors to the modern trend of clubs going abroad to purchase world class players, which has become the norm in todays Premiership. Wasn't the [1931] 'two-year residency rule' lifted in 1978, and didn’t Ivan Golac [southampton] and Kazimierz Deyna [Manchester City] sign that summer too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lallen Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Wasn't the [1931] 'two-year residency rule' lifted in 1978, and didn’t Ivan Golac [southampton] and Kazimierz Deyna [Manchester City] sign that summer too? Quite possibly, but I believe that Ardiles and Villa were the first to be signed, then you had a host of foreign players signing for English clubs. Some succeded, like Ardiles and Villa, who will ever forget his goal in the cup final, and some failed miserably, like the one Birmingham signed whose name escapes me at the moment. I also believe that Villa earned more respect as, unlike Ardiles, he stayed in the UK during the Falklands crisis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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