Who's right who's wong - Houlier
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 8:07 pm"football is a simple game complicated by fools" These words were once spoken by the legendary Bill Shankly but for me they would be of equal validity had any manager of the last 100 years said them (including Alex Ferguson)
In this basic veiw Shankly is describing an ethos and a great understanding of football. He see's beyond the tactics, the techniques, the strategies and the belief that we can make players better by allowing them to experience the highest level of football.
Shankly was describing the absolute truth of football because he knew from his own experience how easy it is to play. The same basic rules apply.
Get control of the ball, keep control by passing to your team mates and tire your oponents out by letting them try to get it back and score goals . Simple! heres how!
1. If other team has ball pressure them into giving ball back and move to step 2.
2. Whilst you have control, team mates should constantly move to create options for player on the ball. Always provide more than one option, move to step 3
3. Using the method outlined in step 2, work the ball forward until within target of oponents goal and try to score goal. If unsuccessful go back to step 1.
This is what foootball should be and was for Liverpool.
Alright, alright you say its more complicated than that.
But No its not!
Look at
Man U
Arsenal
Real Madrid
Milan
Bayern Munich
Even the so called weaker teams in the premiership like Charlton.
The trick to it is getting players to play it simple and its here were the genius comes in. Shankly was absolutely fantastic at selecting players to fit his system. He went all over the place looking for intelligent footballers who knew that keeping it simple was in fact the key to success.
Just think of the number of teams who were littered with so called skilful players who can turn players inside out, measure their success against hard work and simplistic play. Some people here might argue what about Real Madrid. I tell you when they keep it simple they are unstopable. Why?
Well that brings me to my next point.
Shankly, Paisley, Fagan, Daghlish, Busby,Stein, Ferguson, Ramsey brought in players to fit the system. They did not bring players in and change the system around them. Additionally the players were the best that was available not the most popular in the media, not the golden boy, They were players like Hamann those that quietly went about their bussiness. If the Golden boys existed they were created later by the media. So Madrid are so good like we once where because they paly simplefootball and have the best players to do that. The don't have Ronaldhino's or step over kings they have great players who do simple things simply brilliantly.
Their are so many veiws now on this board, that conflict with these truths. I have friends who are faithful to Houlier and they know how I think about him but they never doubt me nor I they because we have something in common. We all aspire to see the simple football return to Anfield we just think that there are different ways of getting there.
If Houlier pulls of a miracle and acheives something this year then I will be happy to eat my words but trurthfully I doubt it because everything is getting far too complicated for me, even the meaning of what a true fan is.
Stop attacking people for their veiws, this is a forum where views can be expressed so lets get back to basics
and lets start keeping it simple.
In this basic veiw Shankly is describing an ethos and a great understanding of football. He see's beyond the tactics, the techniques, the strategies and the belief that we can make players better by allowing them to experience the highest level of football.
Shankly was describing the absolute truth of football because he knew from his own experience how easy it is to play. The same basic rules apply.
Get control of the ball, keep control by passing to your team mates and tire your oponents out by letting them try to get it back and score goals . Simple! heres how!
1. If other team has ball pressure them into giving ball back and move to step 2.
2. Whilst you have control, team mates should constantly move to create options for player on the ball. Always provide more than one option, move to step 3
3. Using the method outlined in step 2, work the ball forward until within target of oponents goal and try to score goal. If unsuccessful go back to step 1.
This is what foootball should be and was for Liverpool.
Alright, alright you say its more complicated than that.
But No its not!
Look at
Man U
Arsenal
Real Madrid
Milan
Bayern Munich
Even the so called weaker teams in the premiership like Charlton.
The trick to it is getting players to play it simple and its here were the genius comes in. Shankly was absolutely fantastic at selecting players to fit his system. He went all over the place looking for intelligent footballers who knew that keeping it simple was in fact the key to success.
Just think of the number of teams who were littered with so called skilful players who can turn players inside out, measure their success against hard work and simplistic play. Some people here might argue what about Real Madrid. I tell you when they keep it simple they are unstopable. Why?
Well that brings me to my next point.
Shankly, Paisley, Fagan, Daghlish, Busby,Stein, Ferguson, Ramsey brought in players to fit the system. They did not bring players in and change the system around them. Additionally the players were the best that was available not the most popular in the media, not the golden boy, They were players like Hamann those that quietly went about their bussiness. If the Golden boys existed they were created later by the media. So Madrid are so good like we once where because they paly simplefootball and have the best players to do that. The don't have Ronaldhino's or step over kings they have great players who do simple things simply brilliantly.
Their are so many veiws now on this board, that conflict with these truths. I have friends who are faithful to Houlier and they know how I think about him but they never doubt me nor I they because we have something in common. We all aspire to see the simple football return to Anfield we just think that there are different ways of getting there.
If Houlier pulls of a miracle and acheives something this year then I will be happy to eat my words but trurthfully I doubt it because everything is getting far too complicated for me, even the meaning of what a true fan is.
Stop attacking people for their veiws, this is a forum where views can be expressed so lets get back to basics
and lets start keeping it simple.
