Translation please

He was getting his stats in LL

Dont forget to add them to the player marks. 

Back in the day players had shirt numbers 1-11 and someone wearing a number between 2 & 6 was a defender. Anyone wearing a number 9, 10 or 11 was an attacker. 

Nowadays players wear whatever number they like so coaches have to delve back into the past to explain their tactics/formations.

Like XG it's all crap.

golfaddick said:

Back in the day players had shirt numbers 1-11 and someone wearing a number between 2 & 6 was a defender. Anyone wearing a number 9, 10 or 11 was an attacker. 

Nowadays players wear whatever number they like so coaches have to delve back into the past to explain their tactics/formations.

Like XG it's all crap.

I'm not sure that's quite right otherwise there'd be players wearing the same number. I much prefer the squad numbering system to positional numbering. It's very helpful for people to know who they are watching, whereas if you want to know what position they are playing it's generally better to look at the place they take on the pitch. 

My attempt would probably be Coventry is a Kish, Doc is a Kinsella, and the other two are Graham Stuarts, but that doesn't feel quite right.

As someone said above it differs from country to country so in modern professional football it’s a nonsense for a manager to make reference to these numbers. He could inadvertently be giving the wrong instructions to his foreign players.  The big difference in France is that the 4 & 6 are reversed. Do they explain this to players to France, North and West Africa. I doubt it. 
Personally I can’t really relate to 6, 8 ,10 and all that stuff anymore when there are top players permanently wearing numbers over 20. In fact I considered it old hat once Balmer was playing as no1.

killerandflash said:

6 is Claude Makelele
8 is a Brian Robson
10 is a Lionel Messi

Don’t disrespect Sonny by comparing him to that Argentine fraud!

Never understood why the centre backs skip number 4 and randomly go 5/6

Stig said:

Extract below from Wiki, though the full article is worth a scan as there are loads of exceptions and differences around the world:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squad_number_(association_football)

Interesting to note that The Massives are cited as early influencers on the numbering front, I'm sure that's the sort of thing our slurry cousins would love to have a claim to. 

The 6 and 4 have swapped in the last decade or so. 4 is now the CB and 6 the DM.

I quite like it as an easy way to differentiate the different type of roles a manager expects his midfielders to be playing. For example we play with a number 10, but compared to a lot of other teams our 10 plays much more like a cross between a 10 and an 8 in that he's expected to have a much higher off the ball work rate and more defensive responsibilities. 

Peter_G said:

When they first allowed teams to change from the old 1-11 numbers, Charlton allocated the shirt numbers in alphabetical order. Stuart Balmer took the no 1 shirt! 

As I had already said beford you.

ElfsborgAddick said:

superclive98 said:

Positions.
Holding midfielder, up and down midfielder, attacking midfielder.

What to make of a player if he's described as a number two.

He used to be shite, but now he's alright.

Redvaliant said:

In old football language, a 6 was a left wing half, an 8 was inside right and a 10 was an inside left. 

Centre half, up front and midfield.