Rob Gutman

I think Sobbesly is one of them.

You could see it in Jungberg, Houghton as well.

They often would...

They would often tuck in as well, those sort of footballers, so they'd break from fairly central positions.

And, of course, the knock-on effect of playing that way is that you set up with very much two holding midfielders.

But the relationship with those holding midfielders, with the dynamic, was always...

One stayed, one went.

One stays, one goes.

I don't know if you remember, that was the thing that was said about McMahon and Whelan, who sat behind Beardsley and John Aldridge, with John Barnes off to the left and Ray Houghton off to the right.

With McMahon and Whelan, Whelan stayed and McMahon went.

If a team tried to push up, he would be the third-man runner.

You'd look to put a pass through.

Even John Barnes would tuck in and put McMahon through at times.

So I think it was an exciting way of setting up a football team.

It was a very successful set of systems for the three managers we've talked about.

And it was asymmetric.

And it feels like we've moved pretty much away from asymmetry in football.

There has to be a sense that we could attack you from the left and the right with wingers of equal capabilities, and you don't know which way it's going to come at you today.

Well, I don't know.

I'm trying to make a case for asymmetry.