So Charlie Austin has scored 50 goals or something daft this season. So in training, over the past 3 days, I bet Keith's been banging it into them. You stay tight on him. Get close. In his face. Right that's that sorted. They'll mark him out of the game. I'm sure that's how it happend So, kick off, first corner no problem. Think again.
And according to Hill Bobby Hassell is not good enough to play in our defence. I'm fast losing all patience with Hill, his blind-spots and his stubbornness. If Hill still thinks Hassell is surplus to requirements defensively then he's a fool.
Said exactly the same thing to the bloke behind me last night. Of course we all know that zones don't score goals, players do, but its all the rage so i guess we're stuck with it.
Do we use zonal marking? It looked more like the tactic on set pieces was more "keep schtum and hope someone else deals with it" The way our defenders responded to that corner coming in you'd think the ball was loaded with semtex. There was no marking of any description.
All these fashionable tactics and formations make me laugh.......football is a 11 versus 11 team game played with a round ball and has been since it's origin......its a simple game and one that should have simple tactics.......zonal marking is for basketball. I say 4-4-2, two big ugly "stoppers" of centre backs, wingers getting chalk on their boots, standing at grounds, smell of cherry tobacco whifting through crowd, footballers getting paid in-line with normal working society, ice cold sponge and bucket (would stop time-wasting injuries), buying Green 'Un in Mount after game, singing "oh Ronnie Moore's a w@nker he wears a w@nkers hat and when he wears it back-to-front, he looks a ................." Point being : change and modern methods not always necessarily better?
They didn't leave him unmarked - he left them instead. Whoever was responsible for looking after him want a reight bollocking.
