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Offline Ivo Stas

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Clearing out the attic, I came across a box of 90s books including one by a certain Mr Andy Gray...

Flat Back Four: The Tactical Game

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/Flat-Back-Four-Tactics-Football-Andy-Gray/0752211943

...as I recall (I read it once, almost 20 years ago) it was a good read. I do remember that I was playing right-back weekly in an 11-a-side workplace team at the time and it did improve my positioning and taught me what the four or five passing options I should be choosing from were, etc.
« Last Edit: May 05, 2017, 09:58:11 PM by Ivo Stas »

Offline nigel

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Re: Andy Gray, legendary centre-forward, broadcaster and er... author
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2017, 09:58:42 PM »
Would have been interesting had he decided to stay on, with BFR, as our assistant manager instead of going to Sky.

Offline Ivo Stas

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Re: Andy Gray, legendary centre-forward, broadcaster and er... author
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2017, 10:09:57 PM »
I was given Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics (by Jonathan Wilson) as a Christmas present some years back but it is still gathering dust on my bookshelf unread.

https://www.amazon.com/Inverting-Pyramid-History-Soccer-Tactics/dp/1568587384/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1494018506&sr=1-1&keywords=inverting+the+pyramid+the+history+of+football+tactics

Offline curiousorange

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Re: Andy Gray, legendary centre-forward, broadcaster and er... author
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2017, 10:12:07 PM »
I used to have a talking book called 'An Insight to the Villa' read by Gray. The only things I remember are that Gray told Big Ron to start Steve Froggat in the '92 FA Cup quarter final and was shouted down, and it sounded like he was in the middle of eating while he recorded it.

Offline Ivo Stas

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Re: Andy Gray, legendary centre-forward, broadcaster and er... author
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2017, 10:14:30 PM »
Would have been interesting had he decided to stay on, with BFR, as our assistant manager instead of going to Sky.

Andy Gray almost became Everton manager in 1997, and - according to the Independent at the time - wanted to buy Dwight Yorke off us.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-gray-shocks-everton-by-rejecting-job-1257731.html

Offline eamonn

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Re: Andy Gray, legendary centre-forward, broadcaster and er... author
« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2017, 01:55:28 AM »
Yorkie to plucky but crap Everton in 1997?! On yer bike.

Offline martin o`who??

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Re: Andy Gray, legendary centre-forward, broadcaster and er... author
« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2017, 07:47:24 AM »
Dont care - still the best header of a football i`ve ever seen.

Offline sid1964

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Re: Andy Gray, legendary centre-forward, broadcaster and er... author
« Reply #7 on: May 09, 2017, 08:39:35 AM »
Fantastic centre forward - better than Withe for me.

We could do with him now, although even he would struggle with the crosses that we put in the box.

Offline class-of-82

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Re: Andy Gray, legendary centre-forward, broadcaster and er... author
« Reply #8 on: May 09, 2017, 07:24:08 PM »
Best number 9 for us in my lifetime

Offline in exile

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Re: Andy Gray, legendary centre-forward, broadcaster and er... author
« Reply #9 on: May 09, 2017, 10:29:55 PM »
And mine

Offline wittonwarrior

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Re: Andy Gray, legendary centre-forward, broadcaster and er... author
« Reply #10 on: May 09, 2017, 10:43:37 PM »
Greatest centre forward in my lifetime at the villa   Could head like a bullet

Offline West Derby Villan

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Re: Andy Gray, legendary centre-forward, broadcaster and er... author
« Reply #11 on: May 10, 2017, 10:28:44 AM »
Most exciting, committed and most prolific number 9 in my Villa lifetime

Offline john e

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Re: Andy Gray, legendary centre-forward, broadcaster and er... author
« Reply #12 on: May 10, 2017, 10:55:42 AM »
agree with all the above

Offline class-of-82

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Re: Andy Gray, legendary centre-forward, broadcaster and er... author
« Reply #13 on: May 10, 2017, 06:50:03 PM »
also the mind boggles at what he would be worth in his prime in todays premiership era

Offline adrenachrome

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Re: Andy Gray, legendary centre-forward, broadcaster and er... author
« Reply #14 on: May 11, 2017, 03:14:42 PM »
Most exciting, committed and most prolific number 9 in my Villa lifetime

Add fearless to that list and we are approaching the truth.

 


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