Operation Ossie.

Operation Ossie Jeremy Walker Daily Yomiuri Sportswriter Yomiuri After coming so close to winning the J.League championship last season, Shimizu S-Pulse boss Steve Perryman has an added incentive to reach this year's playoff--a two-leg title battle with his former Tottenham teammate Ossie Ardiles. The Argentine, who managed S-Pulse for three years from 1996-98, with Perryman as his right-hand man, steered the Yokohama F Marinos to the first-stage championship on an incredible final day of the campaign in May. With the second stage kicking off on Saturday, Perryman feels that his S-Pulse side can book the second ticket to the end-of-season playoff. "That would be brilliant, to play Ossie," said Perryman. "We finished third in the first stage, two points behind …