Bill Shankly said that for a team to have the right balance, it needed four violinists and seven road sweepers.
If anyone has a fucking clue what he was talking about, let me know, eh??
No, in all seriousness, if Shankly is right, we need 4 guys who can create, score goals etc on a fairly frequent basis and 7 who can back them up, enable them to produce the bits of magic required to win us matches. I suppose a good example of his theory would be our team in 89-90, the violinists being Bett, Nicholas, Gillhaus and Mason perhaps, the defence did the dirty work in keeping out the opposition, Grant and Connor backed up the guys in front of them and their game enabled Bett and Mason to thrive.
So, in the current side, do we have players who can claim to be "violinists"? In fact, do we have any who could claim to be adequate road sweepers?
Bill Shankly said that for a team to have the right balance, it needed four violinists and seven road sweepers.
If anyone has a fucking clue what he was talking about, let me know, eh??
No, in all seriousness, if Shankly is right, we need 4 guys who can create, score goals etc on a fairly frequent basis and 7 who can back them up, enable them to produce the bits of magic required to win us matches. I suppose a good example of his theory would be our team in 89-90, the violinists being Bett, Nicholas, Gillhaus and Mason perhaps, the defence did the dirty work in keeping out the opposition, Grant and Connor backed up the guys in front of them and their game enabled Bett and Mason to thrive.
So, in the current side, do we have players who can claim to be "violinists"? In fact, do we have any who could claim to be adequate road sweepers?