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THE GROWING-UP MOMENT YOU REALISE THAT TACTICS AREN’T MINTS

NICK YOUNG on how England’s finally smelling the coffee when it comes to tactics

Rory Delap

ONE of the great things about football is its simultaneous simplicity and complexity; a basic street game that can be played with just about anything spherical (and, I dunno, perhaps a couple of jumpers for goalposts?) and, at the top level, a tactical chess match contested between two grandmasters, except with unrulier spectators and grotesquely overpaid pieces.
Football tactics are constantly evolving thanks to pioneering managers such as Arthur Rowe (push-and-run), Rinus Michels (tot...

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