BBC article on zonal marking...

[tomasjj]

Funny this, they talk about Rafa having a superior record with it.
But they have a section called "Arguments against it", but not one for....
Also the example they have with graphics is one of our failures to deal with a Chelsea corner.

I do wonder sometimes how English football are going to progress when they are so stubborn and traditional when it comes to football. Oh, yeah, I forgot, the English invented the game, so they know best...haha Excuse that little rant..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...nt/4685580.stm

[Morten_nogamst_Pedersen]

Funny this, they talk about Rafa having a superior record with it.
But they have a section called "Arguments against it", but not one for....
Also the example they have with graphics is one of our failures to deal with a Chelsea corner.

I do wonder sometimes how English football are going to progress when they are so stubborn and traditional when it comes to football. Oh, yeah, I forgot, the English invented the game, so they know best...haha Excuse that little rant..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...nt/4685580.stm

You really expect to wind up scousers with that.

[dww]

To be honest I thought the stuff from Wilkinson and Hansen meant there was no need for a seperate section extolling the systems virtues. It would have been nice to have had stats to counter the case study though. A case study of how a system works would have been both useless and dull but as it is the case study displays the traditional media bias with not enough information to balance it.

To be fair there have been a number of innovative English coaches in recent years (Wilkinson, Venables, Alladyce) but none of them have managed to balance their innovations with the inputs from elsewhere and top man management in the last 5 years or so. The only british manager to do so is Fergie - for me his current team/squad and way of playing shows that he has been watching Benitez and taking some ideas. It is the way he synthesises them with his own philosophy that makes him stand out as a manager in the PL.

[Dhav]

Funny this, they talk about Rafa having a superior record with it.
But they have a section called "Arguments against it", but not one for....
Also the example they have with graphics is one of our failures to deal with a Chelsea corner.

I do wonder sometimes how English football are going to progress when they are so stubborn and traditional when it comes to football. Oh, yeah, I forgot, the English invented the game, so they know best...haha Excuse that little rant..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...nt/4685580.stm

You should try listening to Talksport, and football geniuses like Jason Cundy and Gary Stevens, whose whole argument against zonal marking centres around "why mark space, space never scored a goal" :whatever:

Wenger uses zonal marking at Arsenal doesn't he, yet we're the ones that are always criticised for it. You can't legislate for players lacking concentration and switching off at set pieces the way ours have lately which has resulted in us conceding sloppy goals.

I think one of the best arguments put forward for the zonal system we adopt was by Paul Tomkins a while back. anyone remember it?

[Ben_Itez]

You should try listening to Talksport, and football geniuses like Jason Cundy and Gary Stevens, whose whole argument against zonal marking centres around "why mark space, space never scored a goal" :whatever:

Wenger uses zonal marking at Arsenal doesn't he, yet we're the ones that are always criticised for it. You can't legislate for players lacking concentration and switching off at set pieces the way ours have lately which has resulted in us conceding sloppy goals.

I think one of the best arguments put forward for the zonal system we adopt was by Paul Tomkins a while back. anyone remember it?

Was it that we had the best defensive record against set pieces in the Premiership last season per chance? :whatever:

[Maestro]

Funny this, they talk about Rafa having a superior record with it.
But they have a section called "Arguments against it", but not one for....
Also the example they have with graphics is one of our failures to deal with a Chelsea corner.

I do wonder sometimes how English football are going to progress when they are so stubborn and traditional when it comes to football. Oh, yeah, I forgot, the English invented the game, so they know best...haha Excuse that little rant..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...nt/4685580.stm

Football was invented by the Chinese.