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Article: TRADING PLACES ...as 600 British players face up to life on the dole, a legion of foreign mercenaries arrives for football's version of a bargain?basement sale.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- May 8, 2002
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Byline: ALAN FRASER
FOOTBALL'S great global scramble for jobs attracted an Argentina World Cup star with a broken toe to rainy Luton yesterday.
The sad, bizarre, not to mention surreal, presence of injured Sergio Berti in a glorified meat market at a dank and dismal Kenilworth Road illustrated better than words one of the problems facing a game preparing to celebrate one of the greatest sporting shows on earth in the Far East this summer.
Berti, you may remember, came on as a substitute in the 1998 World Cup second round match against England and scored the first goal in that penalty shootout.
Now, however, there are too many ...