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Graham Taylor

How about this for a pearl of wisdom? (from BBC website)

"The only thing worse than a rigid 4-4-2 is a rigid 3-5-2, because that becomes a 5-3-2."

I kid you not. The man's a genius!

Comments

  • i see his point though !

    you can set out your shape, but as soon as you lose possession, the 2 wide men always become full backs.

    I love Taylor, tihnk he is a great bloke and really pleased he come through all that flak.

    His style of play may not of been very attractive, but his style of management was revolutional for the time.
  • Taylor desearves more credit than he gets-
  • His style of play may not of been very attractive, but his style of management was revolutional for the time.


    You can say that again, high balls lumped into the box, and he worked on the premise that the more shots on goal you had the more goals you were likely to get. No real finesse or skill necessary, it worked at Watford because he could source the players he needed to make the tactics work, for England he was a disaster, the long ball/route one was were he specialised, having to play a different set of tactics with players who couldn't do the route one stuff showed him to be out of his depth.
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