Heard some interesting comments from Stuart Pearce, Pullis and McCarthy.

They are not necessarily the greatest fans of micro managing if set pieces.. Pearce said Clough used to tell them to organise themselves when defending and attacking set pieces and pick up a player you could beat in the air.

Meant that the players had to switch on organise and think for themselves which he thinks is missing in a lot of teams.

McCarthy said that was very much the Jack Charlton way for RoI too - players thinking there and then and taking responsibility. They weren’t bad from set pieces.

It wasn’t that they did nothing but the manager consciously gave control and responsibility to the players.

Interesting insight.