Are Arsenal Changing Football Mindsets?
It’s Friday, so it’s time for another coup. Here’s Darius… International breaks are a permanent fixture in the footballing calendar. For Arsenal players such breaks are Russian roulette, a dangerous game which may see their season wrecked through injuries suffered on foreign fields. As sure as taxation and death, we might as well get used to such breaks so I thought I’d touch on an issue affecting the future of the game; the evolution and changing culture of football, fields where Arsenal is ahead of its rivals. England’s capitulation in the 2010 World cup illustrates what can happen when vanity, ignorance, intransigence and lack of vision impede a footballing establishment from moving into the 21st century. There is always a clamour for drastic action following humiliation experienced on the world stage. Naturally, the first call is to summarily execute half-cocked and ill-thought out strategies like squad restriction with a nationalistic or jingoistic flavour. If all else fails, the
