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Re: Sky's Sunday football, the last word.
Posted by: "Bill Thomas" anfield@me.com
Mon Oct 4, 2010 10:17 am (PDT)

David Pleat mad a good comment during the Man City game when David Platt was showing the sub a chart and the camera man was snooping in on it. He basically said you shouldn't have to tell a professional footballer that in depth instructions, he should have the natural instinct and ability to go out and do the job.......they're all making football too complicated!!>

Modern football matey. Is it really any different from the chalkboard in the dressing room? Just because the camera's didn't show us those chalk board shots in the 70's, does not mean the managers were not doing little drawings and showing players what to do. There is a belief that the big problem these days with footballers starts when they are kids being over coached by "coaches", and parents on the touchline screaming instructions at 8 and 9 year olds. When those kids grow up into professional footballers, they don't have the instinct, because it was not developed. They were treated like puppets as kids and now they need coaches to tell them what to do.

Keith

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