The consortium look to Germany next

[Young_Nudger]

I don't need to see King Herod working in a childcare facility to know summats not reyt darn theear.

Tell me hoofball is beautiful Pass whilst keeping a straight face.

‘Vertical Football’ can be really exciting to watch - IF - passes forward hit the target.
Against Middlesbrough many of the passes went astray.
And when that happens its incredibly frustrating to watch.

We have defenders that have been brought into the club because they posses certain attributes.
One of those attributes is their ability to bring the ball out of defence and be able to accurately pass the ball.
Sometimes they fail to do this and it’s got to improve.

One of the things I can’t understand is that it’s been obviously drilled into the defenders to kick the ball into touch - when often it’s nearly as easy to hook the ball up field and land it in a space beyond the centre circle - giving our strikers something to run onto.
Why they choose to kick it into touch, I’m still trying to work that one out.

But regarding Vertical Football - I would rather watch that type of football than the tippy tappy, sideways crab movement, watching paint dry, playing out from the back, type of tactics employed by teams such as Man City - no matter how much success they have had.