| In the very early days of football attack was | | | | however and with foreign influences different |
| the name of the game. Teams would typically | | | | approaches were being developed. The Italians |
| play with 2 wide men, an inside right, an | | | | would go on to develop the more defensive |
| inside left, and a centre-forward. Skillful | | | | approach, which we know so well today with a |
| and tricky players would take up the wide | | | | bank of four another bank of fours then two |
| rolls supplying the crosses for typically big | | | | strikers. This approach, having produced a |
| and tall centre forwards to get on the end | | | | fair degree of success, would go on, in a |
| of. Such approaches to the game must have | | | | small amount of time, to become adopted as |
| been easy on the eye with results often | | | | the international standard. |
| ending 11-7 or the like.As time progressed | | | | |