Summary
AND so the man paid Pounds 4.5million a year to be in charge of looking like someone's in charge has finally come up with the tactical masterplan designed to unlock the world's defences: Knock it to the lanky bloke up front.
Yes, after nearly five seasons of traipsing to matches and 57 months of trying to appear inscrutable in the front row of the directors' box, Sven Goran Eriksson's supposed continental sophistication boils down to little more than asking a big lad to be 'awkward' and 'put himself about a bit'.See the full content of this document
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Masterplan? Sven's Faith in Crouch Is a Tall Story
The player is Peter Crouch, the daddy-longlegs of the Premiership; a gangly, breadstick-limbed attacker who will undoubtedly lead the line for England against Austria on Saturday with willing elbows and jack-knife limbs.
But is he the answer? Well, he is certainly unusual. For a start, at 6ft 7in, he is the only player who can be tripped on the halfway line and still manage to fall in the penalty box. So there's a chance of a ...See the full content of this document
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