The simple secrets to the success of Spurs' new superstar

As the football world goes Bale-barmy, Richard Edwards speaks to the former head of Sports Science at Southampton to find out whether the Spurs superstarlet was always destined for greatness

Luis Figo has never really stood out as being someone prone to spontaneous outbursts of praise, so when the suave Portuguese maestro turned round at the end of a Champions League drubbing and labelled one of the opposition 'amazingâÂÂ, you knew that something pretty extraordinary had just happened. And it had.

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