As football doctrines go, the 4-4-2 formation is ingrained into the psyche. But this formation is out of date and Fabio Capello’s England need to realise this fact. Dan Bailey explores the Italian’s options for a new and revitalised England team.
Keegan and Toshack. Quinn and Phillips. Owen and Heskey. Football is littered with successful examples of the ‘classic’ big man/little man partnerships. And with Peter Crouch linked with a move away from Liverpool, could he and Jermain Defoe form the latest tall/small partnership?
After a lacklustre display against the French in Paris on Wednesday, the predictable murmurs of media discontent are already beginning to surface.
It seems par for the course to herald the brilliance of each new England manager before embarking on a terminal campaign of suspicion and defamation after the very first bad result. Before the game […]
Bernd Schuster bears some intriguing similarities to former Chelsea boss José Mourinho.
The German disregards the media with contempt, is utterly single-minded and could not deliver the prize he was ordered to win, the Champions League.
Schuster does offer a far more exciting style of football than Mourinho ever did at Stamford Bridge or Fabio Capello managed […]
It has been argued by many that the job as the manager of the England football team is the ‘toughest job’ in football; it has come to be regarded as a thankless task – it is, they say, the ‘impossible job’.
Or, at least, this is how it may seem when one recalls the countless years […]