Lil Layne
Winger
They’re also an antidote to the idea that football should be played to look beautiful and to hell with the results, which again, is only one of many ways of looking at it. In their way, Stoke are as tactically excellent as Barcelona, it’s just a very dour sort of football they play. But it requires as much an understanding of shape, position, moves and routine to work. If it was just a simple case of hoofing the ball up to a big person in the box then they would be no more successful than most.
Surely they're as tactically excellent as a pass and move equivalent that finished in 8th-12th place, not the European Champions.