Transfer Rumours Summer Transfer Thread 21/22

It's a pretty well known footballing term.

 

It’s one of the first things you learn when doing coaching badges. But if you’ve not got an interest in coaching, it’s probably not a term people would know.

 

"Double Pivot" sounds like an ice skating manoeuvre.

 

As a teacher, what did you think about coaching badges, any good?

 

I googled guardiola and double pivot yesterday
It brought up johann cruff talking about midfielders
He called then two sitting midfielders and he was against it
No mention of double pivots
That’ll do for me

 

Not amongst people who actually play the game, if you said that on a Sunday morning you would get laughed at!!!

It’s a nonsense term

 

If you say so.

 

I don't think I've heard a commentator or a pundit use the term ever. Nor a professional club manager nor professional coaches when interviewed. Players - gotta be kidding!! Or sports journalists for that matter. That's over a period of 60 years plus.
Newfangled gobbledygook speak if you ask me!

 

The "Binary Fulcrum Formation" - that'll work if applied correctly.

 

I thought it was a golf term for taking a chunk out of the fairway

 

Followed by kissing the ice….

 

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Or to use it’s common term - find space to receive the ball.
Not once doing my coaching badges was the term ‘double pivot’ used, not once.

 

I expect we'll be getting used to more of this kind of 'technical lanuage' over time.

 

I still find "He's an offensive player" a bit odd.

 

Bryan Hughes referred to Smallwood-Docherty or Slater-Docherty as a ‘double pivot’ several times on iPlayer last season. Fat boy and Swanny on RH probably wouldn’t say it but they spend most of the game talking about pies.

 

I've seen plenty of them at City over the years haha!

 

Must have missed it on iFollow - probably visiting the fridge for another beer ! Although Hughes was the colour commentator a few games I recall.

 

I'm surprised they are not contributing to tonight's topic on the FNMT