Brucey gives special bonus as Good Old Days here again
In football’s Good Old Days, when “one-up” was a pleasingly unknown phrase, you’d talk knowledgeably about tandems of strikers operating in the box — until some coach unfortunately discovered something called “the hole”, down which one half of them were duly pushed. Similarly midfields have become too tactically variable to have an old skool central pairing like Macari ‘n’ McIlroy; so we are now just left with the apparently imperishable centre-back pairing.
We’ve had some crackers at United down the years and I always felt you could tell a lot about a Red by his choice of favourite; for me, it was Buchan over Greenhoff, McGrath over Moran, Vidic over Rio and — hardest of all — Pallister over Bruce.
