Dutch Treat in South Wales: Swansea & Total Football

In general, the phrase "total football" rolls off the tongue as easily as "fiery Welshman Craig Bellamy" and often conjures images of marauding fullbacks flying to spaces ludicrously-high up the pitch in an orange blur, engaging in a intricately-woven passing game wearing spiked wooden clogs. Holland's approach to the game, crafted on the Ajax training grounds beginning in the mid 1950s and played to perfection on European stages in the 1970s, remains an innovation of admiration to football aficionados of the beautiful game.

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