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When did English football clubs stop playing dinosaur football?
- Thread starter SambaStyle
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That’s quite dry for the Baseball ground at the time!
After one of those finals the Pisscan said: “Faced with football like that, there is nothing you can do.”The press and pundits used to fawn over Whisky nose and his so called "football". Then along came Pep and Barca to humiliate them in the 2009 and 2011 CL finals playing sublime football!
Magicpole
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Football like everything else evolves. The football we see now from across the world is generally faster and technically better than it was. Players are so much fitter that it allows for this. England has had a few managers that have shown it can be done and br successful. Pep is right up there, but it didn’t start nor will it stop with him. Playing attractive aggressive football is the new norm. Unless you live in Stoke, obviously.
Dirty Harry
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Those were fantastic Ipswich sides, had everything, should have won far more than the did, why they didn’t I don’t really know, but up there with the dippers and Forest as the best team I remember for that era.Ipswich Town under Bobby Robson with Muhren and Tyissen? Late 70s / early 80s.
dennishasdoneit
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I think ,on balance your right.Don't get me wrong, we did play some great stuff under Mancini, but compared with now it was less patient, more direct and obviously didn't work that well compared to the top European teams.
There have always been teams who are an exception and play great football - sides like those you mentioned - but that's what they were, an exception. That's why you can remember them, because they were something a bit different - the majority of English football still didn't play that way. Not all like Wimbledon exactly, but some like that and then some inbetween.
It's only since Pep when English football as a whole has been lifted to be the pinnacle and the best football out there (regardless of what Sky say).
Yes def more direct less patient under Mancini..but I loved The very best of Mancini..the 5-1 win at WHL ,followed by the 6-1 at utd.
And your def right about it being the exception,as I had to really think ,lol
I didn't mention spurs under Keith Burkinshaw,Ardiles Hoddle, ricky ( i wont say his surname ) Hazard..all fine fluid players who passed the ball well. They looked good on the tv highlights to me anyway.
Pep is another level.
Wenger broke the mould tho.
Pep took the level higher.
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dennishasdoneit
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Maybe not on the same level as Hansen,but Glenn Roeder at QPR ,used to play a skilful centre back style,bringing the ball out of defence,using the famous " Roeder shuffle" in which he,d bamboozle a forward and bolt past him with the ball.this bit of skill was of course helped by the loftus road plastic pitch.You are right about the backpass rule but, to be fair, Hansen and Lawrenson did play the ball out from the back a lot of the time. They were the first ball-playing centre backs I remember in an English team. The 1970s Liverpool team was very direct but the 1980s version were brilliant at keeping the ball. They played like a European team.
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I believe City certainly didn’t under Joe Mercer.
I was amazed when Hansen was left out if the Scotland WC squad by Pisscan 86.Maybe not on the same level as Hansen,but Glenn Roeder at QPR ,used to play a skilful centre back style,bringing the ball out of defence,using the famous " Roeder shuffle" in which he,d bamboozle a forward and bolt past him with the ball.this bit of skill was of course helped by the loftus road plastic pitch.
Roeder was great to watch.
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader
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There's always a place inside a game of football where a fuckin' great hoof à la Ewing 'n Leivers can bear real juicy fruit - just look at what happened in the last FA Cup Final! My ERO facetimeing with grandson and he shouts 'What a goal!" I turn to Mrs Ewing at our end and say 'He's winding us, they haven't kicked off yet! Perfect thump upfield from Ilkay's mate, Stefan, and the Rags have their chins on their red chests after seconds. And all thanks to Big Fat Pep telling 'em to give it a whack 'n see what happens.