Scoring from a corner - for borobob and pugh!

Being an old git, I recall a certain Simon Read hanging deep on corners, almost nonchalantly dropping his shoulder to send his marker the wrong way and then filling his boots against a defence turned around against their will.

Virtually no coach is interested in this simple tactic now, despite the basic law of probability that says a fair number of well flighted corners will be deflected diagonally into a predator's path. Instead, far too many corners are softly hit dollies into any half-way decent keeper's arms or have insufficient height or pace to beat the first man. D'oh! Coaches need to speak to the likes of Colin Fielder. He knew how to drive and flight a corner kick to create maximum discomfort to the oppo defence.

It's interesting how football coaching is full of fads. Some of the newer fads show real progress, others just show how easily lessons from the past can be forgotten.