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Every successful team, even the ostensibly more gifted ones, needs solidity at the back of midfield and Roy Hodgson is looking for it now as he seeks to reshape England
Roy Hodgson must solve Jack Wilshere conundrumThere is an unhelpful idealism about international football, or at least about the way England approach international football. Everybody has their favourite to promote, the key creator who cannot be left out, the grand scheme that will secure success, and the result is often a terrible mish-mash a team designed, if not by committee, then certainly with so many voices at play that a managers thinking can become clouded.
Part of the problem is the scarcity of games. A club managers thinking naturally evolves: his side play a game, he assesses form and fitness and will rarely make more than a couple of changes for the following game. Tactics evolve, players get to know one another; the best sides emerge through a combination of the coachs philosophy and organic development.
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Roy Hodgson must solve Jack Wilshere conundrumThere is an unhelpful idealism about international football, or at least about the way England approach international football. Everybody has their favourite to promote, the key creator who cannot be left out, the grand scheme that will secure success, and the result is often a terrible mish-mash a team designed, if not by committee, then certainly with so many voices at play that a managers thinking can become clouded.
Part of the problem is the scarcity of games. A club managers thinking naturally evolves: his side play a game, he assesses form and fitness and will rarely make more than a couple of changes for the following game. Tactics evolve, players get to know one another; the best sides emerge through a combination of the coachs philosophy and organic development.
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