Football Philosophy

I wouldn't go so far as to say there's no such thing as a footballing philosophy, but it's not as much of a 'philosophy' as people think. The reality is that you play to your strengths, if you are a team with excellent passers of the ball, you dominate possession, if you are a team with excellent attackers, you play attacking football, if you're a poor team you usually play defensive football. The reason Man Utd, Real Madrid and Barcelona play attacking football is that they are the best teams, so they need to attack in order to avoid draws. You watch how they play when they need a result against a stronger side though (admittedly that might be difficult with Barca), you look at the tactics they employ, you'll realise that it's not about a club's 'DNA' or 'Philosophy' it's about the best way to win.

Get the ball, pass it back to Jagielka, hoof it forward to Beckford who doesn't jump, repeat.

get the ball all 11 players run up lose ball other team couter attacks and scores repeat

Under Hans Backe it's pass well, defend shoddy, and draw.

About 60/40 run to pass ratio; quick hitting receiver patterns, most passes thrown no longer than 10 yards down field; rock solid defense, ball hawking corners; bone crunching safeties who punish receivers that go over the middle; speed pass rushers on the outside; big strong immovable mammoths on the interior defensive line; keep teams under 14 points; grind out ugly wins.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:I wouldn't go so far as to say there's no such thing as a footballing philosophy, but it's not as much of a 'philosophy' as people think. The reality is that you play to your strengths, if you are a team with excellent passers of the ball, you dominate possession, if you are a team with excellent attackers, you play attacking football, if you're a poor team you usually play defensive football. The reason Man Utd, Real Madrid and Barcelona play attacking football is that they are the best teams, so they need to attack in order to avoid draws. You watch how they play when they need a result against a stronger side though (admittedly that might be difficult with Barca), you look at the tactics they employ, you'll realise that it's not about a club's 'DNA' or 'Philosophy' it's about the best way to win.

A teams philosophy is not made by the players they currently may have. But by the vision of the club and the football it wants to play.. so if they have the wrong players they should be looking to change them. Just like Liverpool are supposedly doing.

Chris wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:I wouldn't go so far as to say there's no such thing as a footballing philosophy, but it's not as much of a 'philosophy' as people think. The reality is that you play to your strengths, if you are a team with excellent passers of the ball, you dominate possession, if you are a team with excellent attackers, you play attacking football, if you're a poor team you usually play defensive football. The reason Man Utd, Real Madrid and Barcelona play attacking football is that they are the best teams, so they need to attack in order to avoid draws. You watch how they play when they need a result against a stronger side though (admittedly that might be difficult with Barca), you look at the tactics they employ, you'll realise that it's not about a club's 'DNA' or 'Philosophy' it's about the best way to win.

A teams philosophy is not made by the players they currently may have. But by the vision of the club and the football it wants to play.. so if they have the wrong players they should be looking to change them. Just like Liverpool are supposedly doing.

A club can't have vision, and it can't want to play anything, because it's not a person. It's just people who have vision and decide what they want, and those people change, they leave, they lose interest, they retire, they die, and new people take their place, people with different ideas. Circumstances have far more impact on a team's style of play than any woolly philosophy.

Arsenal are often hailed as this great club who stick to their principles and philosophy, you go and look at their Champions League run in 2006 and see where their fucking principles were then. Jelavic has claimed Rangers/Liverpool play good attacking football, go and look at their cup runs in 2005 and 2008, or look at United's performances against Barcelona in 2008. Principles and philosophy go right out the window when they're overcome by practicality.

menalawyerguy wrote:About 60/40 run to pass ratio; quick hitting receiver patterns, most passes thrown no longer than 10 yards down field; rock solid defense, ball hawking corners; bone crunching safeties who punish receivers that go over the middle; speed pass rushers on the outside; big strong immovable mammoths on the interior defensive line; keep teams under 14 points; grind out ugly wins.

Who is your team again? I'm thinking it's the Steelers or Ravens by your description

Get it to Lennon and Bale cause they're fast motherfuckers, cross it to Crouch

gets old, Defoe has so much more natural striker capability then Crouch but then we'd have to stop our constant crossing.