What's more important in football: modern tactics or old school physicality? | Jonathan Howcroft

It is possible to enjoy a match on one plane alone but it can be enhanced by combining both – as Victory and Phoenix did

“I’m fed up listening to people talk bull about tactics and formations and too much football science,” remonstrated Graeme Souness last week. “Get first to the ball and you’ve got a chance in football. Don’t get first to the ball, you’ve got no chance. Simple as. Simple as!”

Souness’s frustration boiled over during coverage of a Champions League tie on Irish TV and made the three-time European Cup winner an instant cause célèbre. To some he was ripe for ridicule; an old man shaking his fist at a cloud. To others he was a beacon of common sense telling it like it is.

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