Boardman has had a remarkable run of success since taking the bronze medal at the Olympics in Atlanta - regaining the world pursuit

Boardman has had a remarkable run of success since taking the bronze medal at the Olympics in Atlanta - regaining the world pursuit title, destroying the world hour record and winning the classic Grand Prix des Nations time trial. Now he represents Britain's best chance of glory in Lugano - but he is not alone in being a strong tip for honours.Max Sciandri, Britain's other cycling bronze medallist at the Games, will also be competing in Switzerland, where he will captain the road race team.The national coach, Doug Dailey, who will bow out after a decade at the top after these championships, revealed yesterday: "Sciandri has targeted this event."He lives only two hours' drive away from the course and he is still very competitive at this late stage of the season," Dailey added.Great Britain's road race line-up is completed by Sean Yates - making his last international appearance before retiring at the end of the season - plus Jeremy Hunt, Matt Stephens, Simon Bray and Chris Newton.GREAT BRITAIN (Teams for World Road Race Championships, Lugano, Swit, Oct): Elite road race: M Sciandri (Pistoia, Italy), S Yates (Forest Row, Sussex), J Hunt (Totnes), M Stephens (Crewe), S Bray (Cardiff), C Newton (Middlesbrough) Elite time trial: C Boardman (Wirral), Newton. Chris Boardman will be hoping that his impressive recent form continues into the forthcoming World Road Championships at Lugano in Switzerland next month. Wenger may be largely unknown here, but the influx of foreign players has opened football minds to continental ideas and there is less arrogance about the English game, notwithstanding the national team's success in Euro 96 The time may be right for a foreign manager.. He found English players difficult to deal with, and was dismissed in less than a year.However, the game has moved on since then. It is not the first time that an established foreign coach has been appointed to run a big English club. Josef Venglos, the highly regarded Slovak coach, took over at Aston Villa in 1990. "He will know their strengths and weaknesses and will have studied their matches for years."He is a football alcoholic.

On days off at Monaco he would fly to the other side of the world to watch a game, to see a player or tactic I believe it is a brilliant appointment. I can see Arsenal winning something inside his first year."The precedents, though, are not good. "He will have videos and dossiers on all Arsenal's players already," Hateley said. It is widespread on the continent.According to Hateley, he will be well aware of the task ahead. The division of responsibility which so irked Bruce Rioch, with the manager coaching and the board conducting transfer negotiations, will be a familiar one to Wenger. He was interested by Hoddle's suggestion that he become the Football Assocation's technical director, but felt it was too soon to move away from a hands-on coaching role.That he will have at Highbury. Although Grampus Eight have maintained their improvement, Wenger decided some months ago that he needed to return the the game's European heartland.

They also reached the semi-finals of the European Cup - having taken the disgraced Marseille's place - but after a bad start to the following season Wenger was dismissed.He went to Japan where he lifted Nagoya Grampus Eight from the bottom three into second place, won the domestic cup competition, and was voted J-League manager of the year. Everyone here will have their chance to show me what they can do," he said.While Weah, Hoddle and Hateley moved on, Wenger stayed at Monaco until two seasons ago, when they finished ninth despite having the talents of Jurgen Klinsmann, Belgium's Enzo Scifo and Youri Djorkaeff in the side. Weah has been linked with a further move to Highbury, but while Wenger's arrival makes his signing less improbable than it was a couple of months ago, Wenger emphasised again yesterday that he would be reluctant to pay the sort of fee that Weah would surely command."Sometimes you can pay too much for players when the ones you already have are high quality. Weah subsequently moved on to Paris St-Germain, and is now at Milan. So dedicated was he to realising it that he even put the Liberian up in his own home.