Quote Originally Posted by slack_pie View Post
If a full back can't or won't stop crosses, what good are they? Most of the time it doesn't even look like they are trying to stop the ball going in the box, but instead just run alongside the winger about two feet away. ****ing clatter him!
Well, quite!

I don't usually like praising Red Dogs, but I wish we had a couple of full-backs in the Stuart Pearce tradition. These days, the obsession with "wing-backs" seems to have left us with an entire generation of supposed defenders who cannot actually defend, or simply can't be bothered to do so. If they bother to track back at all, they just position themselves in no man's lands with their hands behind their backs, watching play rather than affecting it.