Emerging Class System Is Leaving Europe's Sides in Tiers ; English Quartet, Along with Barca and Milan, Form an Elite That Is Increasingly Tough for Other Big Clubs to Break in to [Scot Region]

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THE big chill which the English quartet and Barcelona sent down the spine of elite European football last week reminded me of The Frost Report. As the Oscar-nominated Frost/Nixon picture this year underlined, and the Monty Python team alluded to for years after moving away from his stable, Sir David has often thrived by surfing triumphantly on the breaking waves of other people's talent..

But between 1966-67 his Frost Report nudged at satirical boundaries and gave birth to the brilliantly written Marty Feldman/ John Law sketch called Class.

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Emerging Class System Is Leaving Europe's Sides in Tiers ; English Quartet, Along with Barca and Milan, Form an Elite That Is Increasingly Tough for Other Big Clubs to Break in to [Scot Region]

Bowler-hatted and city-suited John Cleese at 6ft 5in and with 'innate breeding' but no cash haughtily looks down at 5ft 8in pork- pie-hatted Ronnie Barker who is 'middle-class, well-heeled but vulgar' and can, in turn, look down at cloth-capped, Lor' luv a duck 5ft 1in Ronnie Corbett who 'kno...

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