Wisdom of the Crowd - Shirt Numbers

[Lord Kangana]

You present this like it is some sort of opinion rather than factual ?!

---------------------1-----------------------

-2-------------5-----------6--------------3-

-7-------------8-----------4--------------11

---------------9-----------10---------------

David Lee always wore four, so you're f*cking way off beam there.

[Lord Kangana]

Actually, no he didn't, he wore seven. I've dropped a bit of a bollock there.

[Zulus Thousand of em]

Just to get this right. In the good old days, when I was a lad, it went:

1. Goalkeeper
2. Right Back
3 Left Back
4 Right Half
5 Centre Half
6 Left Half
7 Right Wing
8 Inside Right
9 Centre Forward
10 Inside Left
11 Left Wing

I don't know where a1 got his traditional 2-3-5 diagram from - but it's wrong.

Zulu, Older Than Dirt

Bizarrely our teacher in the 1970s at Primary School still had us lined up like this. Not for him that fancy continental 4-4-2 rubbish. What confused me though was he referred to 7 as an outside right and 11 as an outside left, when parents were asking who was playing as wingers.

Good point Harry. On reflection, when I was a lad Left Wing and Right Wing were also called Outside Left and Outside Right. Both terms were in general use.

[TANGODANCER]

I suspect 236 is illegal, but if you mean 235 you are correct. Those were the days, eh Tango?

Sure were Monty.
One goalie, two full backs, three half backs and five forwards.
1
2-3
4-5-6
7-8-9-10-11.