It's worth checking out the interview with Zinedine Zidane in today's Independent, if only for this bit:

"I ask about the relative merits of Serie A and the Premiership. 'Italian football is better,' he says.

Then I ask whether he has ever come close to joining an English club.

'There have been rumours, but nothing concrete,' he says.

I tell him about one particular rumour I have heard, that while he was at Bordeaux he went to Tottenham Hotspur for a trial only for then manager, Gerry Francis, to reject him as too wooden.

Vicky [the interpreter] translates my question into Italian and bewilderment clouds his handsome features

'Who?' he says.

'I don't think he has heard of Tottenham Hotspur,' explains Vicky, apologetically. "

Zinedine Zidane, football superstar, showing that he knows all he needs to know about the Premiership.