Aye, I think Reid stumbled on a magic formula. When Quinn retired Reid was exposed as having no adaptability, he simply tried to carry on the formula with new ingredients. He failed everywhere else to boot. Love him for the good times but can't pretend it was through some kind of genius. He found the front men, after that it was simply finding the right available players to supply them. Quick attacking wide men with players in the middle who were comfortable on the ball. You can't build round strikers these days unless they're truely world class. Scary how much the game has changed.
Terrifying - same rules, same "goals" (pun intended) but a completely different game to 14/15 years ago!! Only the likes of Costa/Suarez/Aguero can have a team built around them in this country! No good having an also ran in there!
Paulo was probably the calmest/coolest player that we've ever had . . . . now't seemed to bother him. He's not very tall, but he was a very good defender for S.A.F.C. that could 'read' the game like Toddo
I rated him, didn't get enough of a chance imo, Even had one of my old bbc606 usernames named after him.
Still not suer he could play as a "1 up top" striker - he was world class undoubtedly (obviously not good enough for England which is obviously the "next level" though)
Kev played a different game of football back then as we were disguising. Don't think he'd be as successfully in today's game, that's not taking anything away from the lad but the other lads mentioned have the attributes suited to today's style. Would Kev have evolved the same though? Impossible to say but I reckon like you, I don't think he'd ever be suited to the loan striker role used today.
Wasn;t disguising anything - just telling it like it is.... (As Bri has an attack of the MBC's and Autocorrect takes over!!!)
