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Vital Football Legend
The idea that we should play expansive, attacking football is a fallacy in football. Ask around any football ground in the country and you'll find fans with the same idea but it's wrong.
If you think back to the best of Fergie's Utd teams you'll remember the amazing runs by Giggs and the spectacular goals by Scholes but Fergie's teams only did that on occasion. Those memories stick out because they were the exception. They usually did it towards the end of season against weaker opposition. The majority of their matches were grinding out win after win. Once they had got themselves on top they could bully lesser teams.
Barcelona play tippy-tappy football because the vast majority of their games are against very weak teams in Spain and in Europe. That and they have some of the best players in the world.
It's great to watch your team charging gung-ho against a terrified defense but it rarely happens in football and almost never in highly competitive games.
Mourinho knows this which is what has made him such an effective manager. The great Italian managers would never dare risk a game with such nonsense.
Football isn't about entertainment. It's about winning. It's wonderful when your team can totally dominate a game and stick it to the opposition but in a highly competitive league like The Championship, you are never going to dominate games to that degree.
Winning teams develop winning habits and as that habit develops they can play more and more expansive football but it's the winning that comes first, not the expansive football.
If you think back to the best of Fergie's Utd teams you'll remember the amazing runs by Giggs and the spectacular goals by Scholes but Fergie's teams only did that on occasion. Those memories stick out because they were the exception. They usually did it towards the end of season against weaker opposition. The majority of their matches were grinding out win after win. Once they had got themselves on top they could bully lesser teams.
Barcelona play tippy-tappy football because the vast majority of their games are against very weak teams in Spain and in Europe. That and they have some of the best players in the world.
It's great to watch your team charging gung-ho against a terrified defense but it rarely happens in football and almost never in highly competitive games.
Mourinho knows this which is what has made him such an effective manager. The great Italian managers would never dare risk a game with such nonsense.
Football isn't about entertainment. It's about winning. It's wonderful when your team can totally dominate a game and stick it to the opposition but in a highly competitive league like The Championship, you are never going to dominate games to that degree.
Winning teams develop winning habits and as that habit develops they can play more and more expansive football but it's the winning that comes first, not the expansive football.