How to win the Ryder Cup on foreign soil: The men who managed the heroic task spill all the secrets and dirty tricks to RIATH AL-SAMARRAI - from Concorde to late-night calls, a locker stuffed with wine and cigars... and the one thing that matters most

To measure how difficult it is to win away in the Ryder Cup, chat to Tony Jacklin. He is among the very few Europeans to do it, but can still work himself into a state of incredulity about a defeat from long ago.