Biggus wrote:
Come on Burnsy you're on a hiding to nothing, the rules clearly state the object of the game and how to achieve it and what determines the best team who are awarded with points or whatever......All the rest is just self indulgent masturbation (as taken to its ultimate conclusion) by Le grand branleur.
You're always banging on with this line, though: fuck tactics, fuck possession, it's all about putting the goal in the back of their net and keeping the ball out of the back of ours. Well where do you think the finer nuances of tactics and possession come from? Why do we have holding midfielders, inverted wingers, forwards who run the channels, dead ball specialists, overlapping fullbacks etc? It's from their vital importance to scoring and not conceding. That's where it comes from. The objectives define the form, but the form is necessary to optimise the objectives. To dismiss scrutiny of the form is nothing more than to accept scoring fewer, and conceding more goals.
