At Arsenal the shout would be ‘squeeze’. That’s the word which would be yelled when Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp were engaging in a high press. The midfield line would squeeze up with them, and so would the back line.
We knew that if our forwards pressured their opponents enough, then with no options in midfield, the opposition would be panicked into playing the ball forward in a hurry — and we’d be waiting for that moment.
Once the long ball inevitably arrived, so did the assistant’s flag, because we would have held our line and made sure the striker was behind our back line.