Can We Watch You Every Week?
Three-goal Walcott: hitting headlines for the right reasons It’s likely that Match of the Day pundit Alan Hansen, an infamous stickler for the defensive aspect of football, will have spectacularly combusted at the state of the defending on show during this week’s League Cup action. Man-marking and tactics seemingly went out the window in one fell swoop in favour of a gung ho approach and a reckless abandon for any semblance of ‘structure’ – whatever that is. It is what was needed after the toxic opening fortnight to October 2012. Just two weeks ago the tag of the beautiful game was nothing but ironic. A farcical and frustrating downpour in Poland, which saw England’s World Cup qualifying game delayed by 20 hours, interspersed a racist riot in south-east Serbia and a drunken act of thuggery from a Leeds United fan. The fallout from the two serious offences listed on the charge sheet above still linger within touching distance, as does the wider is...