Summer 2017 Window Thread

[b3h]

2-3-5 what the hell :icon_lol:

 

[pr0sl0]

2-3-5 what the hell :icon_lol:

It was the most common formation in football, around the world, pretty much from the birth of the Football League until WW2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formation_(association_football)#2.E2.80.933.E2.80.935_.28Pyramid.29

 

[Freddeno]

attack is the best defence

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

2 full backs
3 centre halves
2 wingers
2 inside forwards
1 centre forward

 

[pr0sl0]

Highly recommend Jonathan Wilson's Inverting the Pyramid, btw - one of the best books on football I've read. Much more compelling than you'd expect a history of tactics to be. Starts in the 19th century with the 2-3-5 pyramid, ends with its inversion, the modern day "Christmas tree" 4-3-2-1, and explores where basically every formation you've ever heard of (and a fair few you won't have) came from.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Could we do it? Not that we should obvs

-----------------------------Ruddy

--------------------Boly--------------Miranda

----------------Doherty-----Neves---------Douglas

-Cav-------Jota-------Bonatini------Costa--------Graham

 

[Freddeno]

it would certainly make other teams think twice how to defend :icon_lol:

 

[b3h]

Fully looks like a pisstake FIFA formation. Asif everyone actually used it

 

[Johnny75]

Could we do it? Not that we should obvs

-----------------------------Ruddy

--------------------Boly--------------Miranda

----------------Doherty-----Neves---------Douglas

-Cav-------Jota-------Bonatini------Costa--------Graham

That would be ace.

 

[b3h]

Blates gotta swap Costa and Cav over though.

 

[Freddeno]

games would probabaly end 5-3 and 6-4 more than 2-0, 1-0 and such

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Fully looks like a pisstake FIFA formation. Asif everyone actually used it

They really did

 

[Johnny75]

Fully looks like a pisstake FIFA formation. Asif everyone actually used it

They certainly did, but you have to remember it wasn't the same game as now, the ball was about 10Kg's heavier in the mud!

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

games would probabaly end 5-3 and 6-4 more than 2-0, 1-0 and such

Have a look at an average Saturday in the fifties...

 

[Freddeno]

i would love to try it in the league cup vs teams like yeovil for example

 

[Kenny]

Have a look at an average Saturday in the fifties...

What decade was the First Division Boxing Day games that had a total of 66 goals?

 

[Lord Knows]

Could we do it? Not that we should obvs

-----------------------------Ruddy

--------------------Boly--------------Miranda

----------------Doherty-----Neves---------Douglas

-Cav-------Jota-------Bonatini------Costa--------Graham

Plan B, switch to that if we are one down with twenty minutes left.

 

[Law's Bus]

2 full backs
3 centre halves
2 wingers
2 inside forwards
1 centre forward

half-backs rather than centre halves! There was a left half and a right half...

It's also where the "standard" 1-11 numbers come from, the levels across the pitch, right to left:

1 - GK
2,3 - full backs
4, 5, 6 - half backs
7, 8, 9, 10, 11 - forwards

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Ossie Ardiles effectively played five forwards at Spurs. It did not go well.

 

[Rui_CostCo]

It was fun to watch though. At the time there was a real clamour for a more entertaining style of football, unfortunately for Ossie, he was the only Manager daft enough to do something about it.