Quote Originally Posted by swaledale View Post
I don't dispute that its in youth coaching manuals, Dutch or english or whatever, it is not however widely used within professional football, indeed I have yet to hear or see a manager, coach, media source or pundit use this everyday use, either in professional, semi professional or amateur adult football.

So I just wonder why you use it, other than in an attempt to appear knowledgeable and different? I mean you successfully scored a point over me by demonstrating it is used in youth coaching, fine, but your everyday use just smacks of someone trying to be clever, but appearing to be pedantic and actually being the only person I've seen using it!
A couple of days after you posted this I was watching a Dutch late night chat show. 3 pundits were discussing the rapidly approaching new season. One of them mentioned a formation notation excluding the 1 for the keeper. He was immediately admonished by the other 2.

Yesterday, in his post match press conference, Louis van Gaal commented that it's difficult to beat such a well disciplined, massed defence the way Norway plays, gambling on a counter and, especially when you play 1-4-3-3 like we did you have to be more creative and we weren't.

Is this the start of the "new" moving in to replace tjhe "old"?