Rory Smith
speaker
1,467 appearances
11 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
Rory Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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in the sense that Jota is where that's kind of all he does.
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But he, I mean, he scores big goals.
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if he's a difference, what's a difference?
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Is he a nine and a
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What is he?
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The false nine.
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So I think the false nine was initially used
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when Totti played there at Roma, and the idea was that he would hold the ball up, spin, and then players would run beyond him.
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That was what he did, and Spalletti had run out of strikers.
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And then we started to sort of use it to mean someone who was playing up front but not very good, which is what it kind of became in the last 10 years.
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It was like a striker who didn't score goals was a false nine.
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I think Havertz is just a nine.
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It's just that he has the skill set and the brain, as Chris says, of a midfielder.
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And I don't know, in a way, it feels to me like he's a bit underrated because people think of him as a false nightmare.
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They should just judge him as an actual striker.
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I agree with you there.
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I think he's massively underrated.
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Don't
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no, I'm not backing down.
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Who underrates him?
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