jayramfootball wrote:Power n Glory wrote:My assessment of Arteta will remain largely based on the teams he picks. This big debate about tactics makes me chuckle a bit - as if the fans have some great insight into what tactics we're even adopting, never mind those we should adopt. Generally, they don't. It's just a generic talking point. We lost....tic tacs. Does my head in.
Is it possible that you're projecting your own difficulties understanding the tactical side of the game and maybe why you tend to resort to this pure data approach of numbers and figures?
No.
I am 100 percent certain that very very few people here have the first f***ing clue about the tactical side of the game. You included. I am sure you've played a lot of football manager, though... And FIFA.
Jay, I have never been a coach, I have never professed to be some tactical don. The idea that you have to be an expert to have a valid opinon is nonsense. I played football to semi pro, I know loads of pro footballers, my knowledge of footie is from the playing side. You don't need to be the Albert Einstein of football to know you don't play with wingers and flood the bvox with crosses when you don't have a failry dominant CF to convert the crosses. You also don't need to be a tactical genius to know if the team are creating shit chances - the tactics are wrong ! Arteta has demonstrated that his attacking tactics are shockingly bad