Stevie Nicol

Clever guy, as Jules said.

But he's exaggerating because otherwise, never, never again, you fall when somebody puts his hand on your shoulder.

Mm-hm.

And that's just the way it is.

Stevie, if I can jump on that.

In our days, and for most of the history of football, the opponent was trying to force the other to make mistakes in order to score goals.

And if you don't have mistakes, you don't score goals.

Nowadays what they try to do is to avoid mistakes on their own.

So they try to be safe and secure and therefore they don't try enough, they don't risk enough in order to push the opponent to make mistakes and score goals.

So that's why maybe that's the only time on set pieces that they give their full power to score goals.

But we see that with Arsenal, with the tactic and the amount of players they put in.

We can see that with Crystal Palace, with Chelsea as well.

They are very good at it.

But otherwise, they're very secure.

They don't want to take any risk, don't want to lose the ball.

Therefore, they don't push themselves to push the opponent to make mistakes.

You know, Chaka, it's funny because one of your former teammates at Newcastle, David Ginola, was using that with Arthur George, the coach of Paris Saint-Germain at the time in the beginning of the 90s, where they were scoring goals on corner kick, set pieces, a lot.

putting everybody on the near post like Stevie said.

And David scored so many goals with some others like Rai and George Weah as well.

It was almost impossible to defend against them.