Quote Originally Posted by MikeSB View Post
You all can learn a lot more about how football should be played if you took the trouble to answer the points I made...Like what coaching does the PL players get when they are almost all international players and the coaches are second rate who never played this game at a high level.ie what do they know that the players knew when they were ten years old.

I knew exactly what I needed to do as a wing half and possibly could have made the grade according to my manager. He never told me how to play. I ask again....What are the coaches for? What are 4 managers on the touchline for. When you cannot answer these simple questions then sorry but you will remain ignorant of this very simple game that you create chances when you attack the opposition in numbers and not sodding about in your own half. Perhaps I could train some of these coaches in the basics of the game. Yep, I know nobody will answer these questions and remain cave bound in ignorance. Even Dario said the coaches at RH spend most of their time in front of a computer assessing each player for the FA records.

Not one player that I saw personally was better than Jimmy Greaves 60 years ago now and he needed not one ounce of coaching..Nobody could head a ball like Frank Lord and he again needed no coaching. Its a great scheme for ex footballers though.....Please try and learn something about this game. Maybe most of you never played it??

How is your ex broken hip going?
My fractured hip seems to be coming along nicely but will need an X-ray in 3 more weeks to confirm that. Thanks for asking🙂.

Genuine question: do you go along with various pundits who reckon that referees don't really understand the game because they have "never played, themselves"? I ask as you often mention your own playing background in relation to 'knowing the game'. It's just my experience that, having played a lot but having been pretty crap (except as a goalkeeper) I like to think I have a fair but not expert grasp of the game. In contrast, I have known/ played with relatively talented people who couldn't analyse their way out of a wet paper bag never mind understand the laws of the game.
As I said, a genuine question. Clearly, you can give me your considered answer or ignore me but please can I ask that you don't rant a response. Ta!