Paisley's genius was in taking a much more hands-on approach to recruitment, and bringing in Ian Rush, Bruce Grobbelaar, Mark Lawrenson and, most notably, "King" Kenny Dalglish. And 4-4-2 formation proved to be a great drawing board for this. In short, Bob Paisley was a great innate football manager because he would not get hung up in the specifics and technicalities of tactics but instead had an amazing ability to bring all of his players skills and abilities and allow them to create something much greater together. Of course King Kenny scored his fair share of goals too but that's a story for another time. Or in other words Paisley would let Kenny Dalglish do his thing while Ian Rush did what he did best, that is score goals. Let creative strikers be creative and finishers be clinical. Meaning that if 11 players fit the basic 4-4-2 system and were intelligent enough to read the game themselves, then tactical coaching should be kept to a minimum. ![]() Instead, Paisley was heavily influenced in his coaching approach by his predecessor and mentor Bill Shankly. He based his management around his knack to evaluate the ability of each player. In fact, he did not view himself as a tactician at all. I believe that six 1st Division titles and three Champions League trophies (European Cups at the time) don't lie.īob Paisley was a very modest manager and did not really see himself as some sort of "Special One" or a tactical genius. I find there is a distinct lack of good old 4-4-2 Simple English football discussion and I plan to rectify thisīy "Good old simple English 4-4-2" I really mean the fluid "pass-and-move" football style implemented by Bob Paisley at Liverpool during the club's undeniably most successful era from 1975 to 1983. I also find it's surprising that with a sport that ultimately has its origins on the island of Albion, and a computer game which probably has a huge chunk of its fanbase in England, the classic English school of football has not been more prominently featured here on this forum. I like a good 433 as much as anyone does, but I also get bored easily which is another reason why you see me switch tactics and teams so often. ![]() For every Pep Guardiola's Man City's inspired thread there is another generic 4231 or 433 thread. ![]() As much as I love writing about Dutch Total Football, or Brazilian Jogo Bonito or Mourinho-inspired Pragmatic style of football (my recent Defence-First thread), I feel like there has been a lot of tactical discussion about those styles and tactics.
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