Diego Maradona and Dennis Wise: Two small men (5ft 5in an 5ft 6in respectively) who had a big influence on Gianfranco Zola (all 5ft 5.5in of him). One taught the Italian the beautiful game; the other taught him how to swear. "I kept going around saying what he taught me and people looked at me in a very strange way and I didn't know why they were looking at me like that," Zola said yesterday of the first words of English which were passed on to him by Wise when the former striker arrived at Chelsea from Parma in 1996 . "I found out later, too late."

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