there was a major change in football all over the world between 66 and 70. in 1966 a team had very well defined player positions. by 1970 the game was moving towards more fluidity across team selection. almost everyone could be a midfield player! consequently, football was played more in the central areas of the pitch. less width, the game was tighter and in england teams like leeds utd, who had plenty of blokes who could cope well in a scenario such as this, flourished. just a theory
I don't agree that those players were "jaded" - I have no idea why we performed so poorly the season after we won it but whoever did win it probably had a few who played in mexicoThat World Cup was thought by many to have resulted in our poor defence of the title in 1970/71,Ball,Labone,Wright,Newton were "jaded" by their efforts in the heat of Mexico,when you consider Harvey,Kendall,Royle,West could potentially have joined them maybe its just as well those guys didn't make the squad,we could have gone from Champions to getting relegated
why do I find that formation data funny?
is there a book that you can recommend about those early days of football?
that's nothing, the rats round our way were tories
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I studied the history of British sport many moons ago at university. If I can be bothered (which is, I admit, highly unlikely) I'll try and find my reading list.
There's some stuff on the early days of Everton here :
Everton Bygones
Any snippets of old Everton history please post here. Here's an Echo article from 1889 giving information on our first season in 1888, as well as vignettes of the first League team. Acidly written compared nowadays to the anodyne rubbish passed off as comment...
youre right. I wonder if they discarded them, players often did late in the game. I know I used to do that in my amateur days
