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Home > SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner > Monday, May 4, 2009

Revs Revert to a Reverie from the 1950s

by Paul Gardner

In gentler, less clever days, there really wasn't too much to know about soccer tactics. In England, anyway. Team formations were cast in concrete, immutable, a 3-4-3 with three fullbacks, four midfielders and three forwards. We never called it a 3-4-3 though. It was always a W-M formation. Read the whole story