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Someone like Zdenek Zeman could probably never emerge in English football. An abrasive and confrontational yet quietly spoken man, puffing on cigarettes whenever he can, he cuts far too distint a figure to survive in English football’s sycophancy. One of his outbursts would be enough for him to be driven out of a country less cynical of its powers-that-be than Italy, no doubt labelled as being “borderline Aspergers” by a clueless BBC journalist. It isn’t just his personality however. Although his ultra-attacking style of football shares characteristics with traditional English ideals, demanding endless running and that the ball is played forward as quickly as possible, it’s unlikely they would work unless he was at a big side, and he probably wouldn’t have done well enough at smaller sides to earn that move. In England, the emphasis tends to be on big clubs to break grittier small ones down – Zeman’s teams would be torn apart – yet in Italy he’s carved out a decent reputation. Serie A has a reputation has endured a reputation for ultra-defensive football, but, a period in the nineties aside, it isn’t true – it is just that most of the big teams, who outsiders see [...]
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