Arsenal fans have spent the past day coming to this blog saying that their club and their fans
are way too classy to sing the type of songs sections of Manchester United fans sing at
Arsene Wenger.
They of course fail to acknowledge sections of their fans replicate the hissing noise of the gas
chambers when they play Tottenham Hotspur.
Jonathan Wilson, in the Guardian, looked at The Question: why has 4-4-2 been superseded by
4-2-3-1? in this article from 2008. It came to mind as I watched the U17 International Friendlies
on Wednesday, with the US lining up in the formation. Jonathan answered his own question with the
comment that the coming of 4-2-3-1 was a natural progression from 4-4-2, and in the last five years
nearly all tactical innovations are developments of the formation.
Twohundredpercent is on its Christmas vacation, but we're taking the chance to open up the
colossal vault that is our archive in order to bring you one or two articles from the past that you
might have missed the first time around. Today, Ian King gets shamelessly nostalgic with a look
back at the golden age of football coverage on ITV in London.
