BlueDeadHead
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Well I am British, but I would say that's from the early 90s (the last reasonable reference point, as squad numbers then arrived), 5 Hendry/Curle, 6 Redmond/Vonk, 4 Reid/McMahon so hardly 100 years ago. But even then we messed around with things as Sheron wore 8 and Flitcroft was 10 if my memory isn failing me. And they weren't box to box or attacking midfield respectively. MCmahon wore 11 for Liverpool and Barnes was 10, so it wasn't a hard and fast rule anyway. Squad numbers them came in for the 93/94 season which meant things became ridiculous.
For the 442, I'd go with below as a guide
1 GK
2 RB
3,LB
4 CM
5 CB
6 CB
7 RW
8 CM
9 CF
10 CF
11 LW
Not saying you are wrong...just British :). There are two ways of doing it...The Brit way and the other way. The Brit way is based on the fact that the original numbers went like this...
11 10 9 8 7
6 5 4
3 2
1
As things shifted the numbers stayed the same as they moved to their new location on the field. Thus you have what you posted. Most of the rest of the world use the numbers I posted.