What is it about parking the bus that gets people wet ffs, especially in England?
Having a 2 man delta when attacking is a huge fecking advantage. You're almost guaranteed to concede. No matter your style of defending.
Why are people still bothered at an approach that didn't change the odds much defensively, yet increased their odds of scoring significantly? What is it about "non-pragmatic" methods (I want to vanish that word from football lexicon so bad) that is so bothersome?
It's like when Leeds had the audacity to play football without parking the bus. "Who do they think they are", "naive cnuts", "they'll go back down quickly"... And they did, but what about the numerous teams that play route 1 football and go back down as fast as they came up? How come we don't hear anything about the teams that play to draw or lose narrowly, but have all the criticism for a team that plays expansively? "They'll hit you on the counter like that", "you'll get found out eventually"... It just goes on and on... mini rant so I'm all over the place but hopefully ye get the point