Michael Cox
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778 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 4d ago
Michael Cox’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, they're an interesting one because, I mean, they weren't regarded in the Netherlands as being a classic Dutch team in terms of the way that they played.
They weren't?
Well, I think a few players felt they were kind of round pegs in square holes or even the reverse.
I can never remember which way round that expression works, but it doesn't really matter, does it?
Okay, yeah,
I mean, it
But so, I mean, Ruud Gullit, for example, is basically playing as a second striker.
Right.
When he wants to be much deeper, he, you know, to a certain extent wants to be the Rijkaard figure.
But to have Rijkaard and Koeman as your centre-backs…
I mean, that's just extraordinarily technical beyond the like of anything I think you would see at the time.
And to a certain extent, to what you'd see now, even though everyone is comfortable on the ball, you don't have proper playmakers, I don't think, at the back.
And I mean, a little bit later when it's...
I was going to call him Daily Blind when it was Danny Blind alongside Rycard for Ajax in 95.
I know we're jumping forward a little bit here.
But Van Gaal, Louis Van Gaal always referred to them as the playmakers.
He had Lippmann as his number 10, but he said Lippmann doesn't have enough time on the ball.
You know, the number 10 in the modern game can't be the playmaker.
So he thought the two centre-backs were the playmakers.
And when one of those was Rycard, I mean, that was, you know, someone who could really...
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