Jordi Cruyff knows a thing or two about 'proper' football. He was a more than decent player himself, and his dad… well his dad could have gone to the Patent Office in the mid-seventies as a player, or the early-nineties as a coach, and they would have given him exclusive intellectual property rights on the beautiful game.
That's why Cruyff Jnr's Monday morning column in Diario Sport was the perfect riposte to the following Michael Owen tweet last week: 'Please spare me all this inevitable [Diego] Simeone masterclass nonsense. There's nothing genius about putting 11 top class footballers behind the ball.