Anti- Football boring into the game.

Ashburton Grove
By Danny
August 25 2005

The season has barely started but already the issue of negative football and the use of 4-5-1 has become an issue. Here an Arsenal fan and regular contributor to the Arsenal Times lets of steam against his pet hate.

Sam Alladyce, David Moyes, Jose Mourinho, and Graeme Souness are all successful managers in their own right, but harming the future off the game with their negative tactics.

For example Newcastle’s performance against Arsenal, newspapers reported we were lucky. WHAT!. They sat back and looked for a draw from start to finish. Just blocking everything we threw at them. It's not the way the game supposed to be played.

Yeah it can be successful look at Bolton’s rise up the Premiership ranks. Or Everton's shock 4th place finish. And Chelsea’s title success.

But the 4-5-1 formation is the worst thing to happen to the game, and it's becoming a craze. It's like being at school and having to have the latest fashion. Man Utd completely ignored their past success and jumped on the Defensive bandwagon last year.

It's boring, it really is. And it has been over-hyped big time. Attacking POSITIVE football is far more attractive, exiting and a more respected way of playing the beautiful game.

Who is the most famous footballing nation.....BRAZIL.....Why? Because scoring is the only thing on their mind and nothing else.

I'm not saying this because Arsenal are an offensive side, but as a football fan who wants too see football played at it's highest potential.