Guess I'm wrong then. I've always considered wingers as wide players who play up top flanking a lone striker. Oh well, I guess back when i was a kid learning positions of FIFA was the wrong thing to do.
Well the wings are the left and right channels from our half way line to their by line, so any player that lines up in that area as their starting position is a winger.
The players who play on the wings are generally called wingers, I don't really think it's a topic for debate.
Guess so. Always seen there being a distinction between playing on the flanks in a 4-3-3 - where you actually stay up in line with the striker - and playing on the flanks in a 4-4-2 - after all, in a 4-3-3 you would theoretically have two lines of wingers. But I guess I'm wrong. Wouldn't be the first time.
It depends, they could be a wide midfielder, or if positioned slightly higher up such as in a 4-2-3-1, could be considered an inside forward, advanced playmaker or ramdeuter.
In the "good old days", many years before we had 442 or 433, long before video games were invented, wingers wore the number 7 or number 11 shirt. The right winger wore 7 and the left winger wore 11. Simples.
No wonder Tony Harper complained yesterday about thread drift.... If you want to discuss playing positions open a new f***ing topic .
I'm not entirely sure what the relationship is between video games and players choosing different numbers?
Stick the transfer update page on a one page sticky with only mod access to change if and when we sign or sell someone. Then bin it on Sept 2nd.
A. The point was the players didn't choose their numbers. B. Most youngsters on here seem to get their football knowledge from video games.
Growing up I was always an Aussie rules supporter, where the three midfielders are called the 'rovers' or 'followers', with 'wingers' called flankers, so terminology has never been a strong suit. Still not sure what you call the middle and forward two widemen in a 4-3-3, I guess you'd have 4 wingers?
It certainly sounds a weird idea. The player gets money from somebody who is not their employer yet it is treated as income? In the UK the contracts are lodged with the FA/Premier League/Football League (don't know who) but payments are made normally. In the UK any buyout clause is treated as being able to trigger a transfer and is a sale of an intangible asset.
