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A dispute over the eligibility of foreign competitors sounds more like a story from the world of football than from the oldest and most British of sporting events.

But the ´óÏó´«Ã½ has learned that Oxford and Cambridge are in the midst of a row which has cast a shadow over the Boat Race.

The argument centres on a German oarsman who helped Cambridge to win this year's race but then left the university.

The problem arose when soon after Cambridge's victory in this year's Boat Race, German rower Thorsten Engelmann returned home.

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The Carlos Tevez affair should form more than a footnote in English football history.

It may well prove that his move becomes the modern form of transfers, if so we better learn how such deals work and what they mean.

What is important to realise is that back in August when Argentine this was not just an unusual transfer, it was extraordinary.

The really important thing was that behind the transfer was a wider power play, the bid to take over West Ham.

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