5-3-2 presented as 3-5-2 descends into chaos. The opposition always have an overlap as our 2 wide wingbacks feel it is their duty to cover the 3 centre backs who are usually marking 2 forwards between them (very badly I might add).
Thus leaving us deficient in midfield. Away at Barrow the ‘Boys own tactical handbook’ handed out with Topper magazine in 1974 suggested at halftime to bolster the midfield by reverting to 4 across the back and pushing the 5th defender or substitute into the midfield area.
Lex Icon read it upside down taking a striker off and adding to the midfield thus creating 5-4-1 and playing all eleven men in the box. Loft pushing right out to the edge of our own ‘D’.
Subsequently Topper has been replaced with a more upto date 1976 version of Warlord who highlighted a bad case of the shits which cost us the battle of jing jing whoooo during WW2 when 100,000 Allied troops surrendered to 10,000 Japanese maurauders.
A bit like the Iron at Barrow give or take a few facts.
Lex Icons 4-3-3 would have 5 defenders covering the 3 midfielders just in case one of the 2 strikers was having a bad shift and did not look like scoring.
