12-12-2016, 14:19
Some managers do see the game from the position they played. Fergie is my best example. His teams were geared to getting the ball into the penalty area. Look how he transformed Cristiano Ronaldo from a showboating wide man to a top scorer. He also gave Nani, who lacked all Ronaldo's physical attributes, an excellent season by getting him to come inside and threaten goal.
Roy Mac was just a lovely footballer. Centre back suited him physically but I'm not sure he saw the game from there. He was happy wherever he got the ball on the park!
Sheri and Cookie both played and manage the game from midfield I'm sure, so perhaps we've been spoiled. As a player Dean Saunders was good on a ball over the top, so perhaps that's where his use of the long ball is from.
I've always thought that it is the tendency of managers to see the game from where they played it that has led so few keepers to be decent managers in their own right........
I hate to be over-critical of keepers, specially young ones, but conceding goals from dead balls has always meant for me that there is something wrong with the centre-back/keeper combination. As neither trusts the other marking gets neglected and everyone waits to see who is going to take responsibility when the ball comes in. Forwards feed on the hesitancy of defenders.
Roy Mac was just a lovely footballer. Centre back suited him physically but I'm not sure he saw the game from there. He was happy wherever he got the ball on the park!
Sheri and Cookie both played and manage the game from midfield I'm sure, so perhaps we've been spoiled. As a player Dean Saunders was good on a ball over the top, so perhaps that's where his use of the long ball is from.
I've always thought that it is the tendency of managers to see the game from where they played it that has led so few keepers to be decent managers in their own right........
I hate to be over-critical of keepers, specially young ones, but conceding goals from dead balls has always meant for me that there is something wrong with the centre-back/keeper combination. As neither trusts the other marking gets neglected and everyone waits to see who is going to take responsibility when the ball comes in. Forwards feed on the hesitancy of defenders.