There is precious little if any running off the ball these days, you could win a game by using your initiative, you could rip defences apart.

The greatest sin is not keeping shape, defence is king, who wants to be caught out. The result is football so predictable, boring, id rather read the Guardian online, by the way thats an insult.

It takes footballing intelligence to run into space, it takes team work to read it, and talent to hit the killer pass.

All sadly missing. When was the last time you saw a killer pass????? or a full back or a midfielder running into space?

Or a forward coming short, to the side, looking for space behind a defence, anyone drawing a defender to play someone in?

Never. Its all safe passing. All of it. As for the Guardian, the people who try and sell that, write its garbage, are quite insane.