The Premier League is blessed with football purists in Pep Guardiola, Jurgen Klopp, Mikel Arteta and more — managers who want to show why it is called ‘the beautiful game’ when they win.
But they are now just as meticulous at set-pieces as the ones who play percentage football.
Graham Taylor was a great advocate of the importance of set-pieces, long before the game was swimming in specialists.
I played under Graham at Aston Villa and in October 1987 we faced Spurs in the League Cup.