Frankworthington
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Maybe the first player in this role was Alfredo Di Stefano who played in the Real Madrid side that won the first five European cup finals.Not a new concept
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[Football] What is a false number 9?
- Thread starter SockMonster
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- Aug 24, 2020
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I thought a false no. 9 was someone who pretended to be a no. 9, but was actually a DJ.
Gazwag
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In proper football isn't it just playing with two number 8's
People that don't really understand it and would rather everybody just played 4-4-2 and the game never moved on.
That's what's not to like.
Not to mention 'touch-tight'.
(I may have mentioned it once but I think I got away with it).
Seagull58
In the Algarve
Subbing off Gary Lineker for Alan Smith
rogersix
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- Jan 18, 2014
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indeed, it is extremely tedious; it seems the reactionary, 1970's, old cloggers, do need something to whine about to get thru the day
- Jul 6, 2011
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A lot of incorrect definitions on here, which is very annoying since I am pretty sure I have explained this all before.
A false 9 is when you meet someone on a night out and mistake them for a 9 when they turn out to be far less in the cold light of day. This is usually due to a combination of some or all of; poor lighting, alcohol, tiredness, excellent make up, contrast with ugly friends or various other factors.
See also "beer goggles" and "arm chewer".
Mr Garth Crooks has obviously been stung one too many times and so is now bitter.
Personally I have experience of both meeting a false nine and at other times being the false nine so I find the term both apt and insulting.
A false 9 is when you meet someone on a night out and mistake them for a 9 when they turn out to be far less in the cold light of day. This is usually due to a combination of some or all of; poor lighting, alcohol, tiredness, excellent make up, contrast with ugly friends or various other factors.
See also "beer goggles" and "arm chewer".
Mr Garth Crooks has obviously been stung one too many times and so is now bitter.
Personally I have experience of both meeting a false nine and at other times being the false nine so I find the term both apt and insulting.
Nobby Cybergoat
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- Jul 19, 2021
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A false 9 is the most attacking midfielder in a team that has decided to play without strikers 
- Aug 24, 2020
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I woke up with a false 9 once. She reminded me of Boss Hogg from the Dukes of Hazzard, but without the pile of chicken drumsticks.
THPP in being a football dinosaur shocker. Stop the (high) presses!
Si Gull
Way Down South
The article claims that the false 9 role "is probably the preserve of high-class sides." Not going to argue with that.
rogersix
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- Jan 18, 2014
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"kick im up in the air!"
The article claims that the false 9 role "is probably the preserve of high-class sides." Not going to argue with that.
My view is that a false number 9 is a number 9 who does not look like or play like Bob Latchford, Derek Hales or Wyn Davies.
So we have a "pivot" (who's ahead of those doing the "touch-tight") contributing to the press-resistance. But he's behind the "false nine" who's not a ten because there's no number 9. But which of them must have a "good engine"?
Sometimes I hanker for:
A schemer
A nippy winger
A big man up front
A sweeper (a bit foreign, though, that)
and the most important of all.....
A clogger.
Sometimes I hanker for:
A schemer
A nippy winger
A big man up front
A sweeper (a bit foreign, though, that)
and the most important of all.....
A clogger.
And if you wanted to be really foreign, the sweeper should be a "libero".
- Jun 27, 2012
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That's Jonathan Wilson. His book on the history of football tactics is highly recommended. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inverting-...-Tactics/dp/1474609295/ref=asc_df_1474609295/
He wrote this excellent piece last year on the press. Something that obviously Potter is also very taken by. As is Klopp.
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ng-tactical-forefront-germany-jonathan-wilson