Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
What would Clarence have to say about this modern obsession with giving midfield players specific, specialist roles? Was Clarence a CM, a DM, a holding midfielder, a box-to-box midfielder? He was none of these things and he was all of these things.

He was a midfielder, that's what he was.
I got confused for a second there. I thought you meant Bruce Springsteen's dead saxophonist.

In answer to your question, I can't help but feel the whole nomenclature thing is completely out of hand.

These are the only football positions

Goalkeeper
Left Back
Centre Half
Centre Half
Right Back

Winger
Midfielder
Midfielder
Winger

Centre Forward
Centre Forward

Everything else is foreign nonsense.