After just four games, culminating in a 7-0 hammering at ­Liverpool, Ardiles wondered what on earth he had let himself in for. Tottenham and the Liver Bird will be reacquainted after this international break, and the contest should be closer this time. But four decades on from the deal which proved a trailer for the foreign invasion of English football, Ardiles enjoyed the ­“adventure” of two cultural ­attaches from ­Argentina so much he still lives in Hertfordshire. He was looking for another midfielder, so he went away, looked into it and came back with the board’s approval. “Ricky told me he was leaving Tottenham and going to Miami – and the main reason was sunshine.

Source: Daily Mirror September 09, 2018 21:22 UTC