Today's Football 2015 / 16

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ilikecheese said:
Benitez taking Newcastle down...at least there is some joy in the world...even if it comes at an expense.
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Trying to think if we could get anybody from Newcastle for a cut price deal....

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Tommy Elphick. Never ever heard of him.
 
Seamus Colemole said:
I reckon there's a good chance that most Premier League managers learnt along time ago that having 2 extra defenders marking attackers in the area results in conceding less goals from corners than by having 1 or 2 players on the post, hence why most don't do it anymore.

Given the amount of statistical analysis that goes on in the game these days i'd assume the above would be the reason for not having players on the post these days, rather then the fact that managers aren't learning.
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Right, I follow you now.

However, I still think that you can see this kind of goal almost every week on MOTD. And I think that for all the supposed persuasive arguments about having more players marking the attackers, attacking players still get to the ball a lot of times, and the 'ball inside the vacant post from a corner' scenario plays out on a regular basis. The difference between winning or drawing, or drawing or losing, in a lot of instances...
 
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