John Barnes
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And you have spare men all over the field.
You never play 11 against 11 in thirds.
Yeah.
But is that football intelligence?
Is that just football intelligence?
But if you're saying when you get the ball, you need someone to look.
But if they're not on the same wavelength as you, then what do you do?
You're going to have to dribble around them, aren't you?
So therefore, the team intelligence of how I know if you're going to press, you are now going to be marked.
I'm going to go in that position.
If someone marks me, someone else has to.
So it's really the whole team moving to then try and find the spare man.
That happened more in the training than the matches, I have to say.
But I try to train properly.
You know, always believe.
Because, of course, that's what it is.
I say to kids, you know, you don't pass an exam on the day you take it.
You pass the exam and your preparation, you don't have to be studying, studying, studying.
So you know it.
Football's the same.