New Orleans Saints to host the San Diego Chargers as the NFL returns to Wembley

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The NFL will officially announce the teams and venue later this week, ahead of the Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and New York Giants.

Marketing value: LaDainian Tomlinson

This will be the second regular-season NFL game played outside North America. The Giants beat the Miami Dolphins 13-10 at Wembley Stadium last October.

The Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers were also willing to head to Europe to showcase the NFL, but the league decided that marquee players like the Saints' running-back Reggie Bush and Chargers' counterpart LaDainian Tomlinson would be vaulable to promote the game.

"We want to go," Chargers president Dean Spanos said last week. "I'm cautiously optimistic."

Wembley Stadium has beaten off competition from Cardiff's Millennium Stadium and Murrayfield to host the game after it gave reassurances that the drainage problems, which caused a quagmire of a pitch for both the Dolphins/Giants match-up and England's Euro 2008 qualifier against Croatia, will be rectified.

The drainage problem is believed to be due to subsidence, which occurred when the stadium was rebuilt. According to league sources, it was felt that transport links to the London venue were a key factor in the decision to return to Wembley.

Andre Caldwell's last-play touchdown gives South win in Senior Bowl

Andre Caldwell scored on a two-yard end-around on the final play of College Football's Senior Bowl to cap a 14-play, 86-yard final drive and lift the South over the North 17-16 in Mobile, Alabama, on Saturday.

The Florida receiver took the handoff from his team's former rival, Tennessee's Erik Ainge, and plunged across the goal line.

Caldwell celebrated with a Gator chomp in the final game of his college career, and Georgia's Brandon Coutu made the extra point.

simon.milham@dailymail.co.uk