Miguel Delaney
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12 recordings
6 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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That kind of really peaked in 2012 where it was considered boring.
I remember that debate.
The one thing I would always have said about that is that because Spain's football is so defined, the idea is so defined...
And basically it's evolved out of the club culture as well, particularly Barcelona.
No other team can do that.
So the response from other teams, especially around 2010, 2012, and remember this is after Mourinho's Inter beat Barcelona, basically the main response, sit deep.
So I always felt the boring debate was a little bit harsh because they're playing teams that refuse to come out.
But it did have a bit of a kind of...
kind of a push and pull factor in that.
Spain's response to that, because there was always a danger of getting caught in the break, was to put an extra midfielder in, which did make them a bit stodgier.
Then, yeah, I think they probably, as happens with kind of a dominant ideology, and this happens, like, say, Wenger or any revolutionary you can think of in football, they get a bit too stuck in their own idea.
And I think the worst idea of this was around 2016, 2018.
And that game, and it was a...
a carry-on from it in 2022 when they played Morocco as well, where it was like they had no other solutions.
They just got more stuck into what they knew.
And it was almost like a bit of a football breakdown in that sense.
You didn't know what to do, so you just kept doing the same thing over and over.
But that was also a product that, at that point, they weren't yet seeing different type of players coming through.
Look, Spain can...
produce multiple sixes eights in midfield hence they had so much out of football but they didn't have any outlets and this is what a newer generation has there are more outlets characterised above all by Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams Williams is coming back to form this is another issue with Spain's rise I think the Cabo Verde game obviously conditioned perceptions but also the fact that so many of their players weren't properly fit Rodri wasn't fit Yamal wasn't fit Williams didn't look like he could play at all
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