LONDON practically a decade ago, The Wall Street Journal writer Sam Walker had the idea of exasperating to identify the most objectively great teams in sporting history, and seeing if he could discern any common traits.He found they every shared a single characteristic - for every team, the duration of their talent coincided afterward the lifespan of a captain, who could elevate a team to fake exceeding the level of their natural ability, from Hungary's Ferenc Puskas to Carles Puyol of Barcelona.In short, he theorised the one event the greatest teams have in common is great player leadership. Walker's findings present an interesting counterpoint to an inconspicuous but intriguing trend of this Premier League season.At many teams, the club captain has been an impermanent or peripheral figure.Gary Cahill has barely played for Chelsea, likewise, Everton's Phil Jagielka, and Southampton's Steven Davis, now upon forward movement to Rangers. LEAD BY EXAMPLEYou don't always obsession vocal captains... You can guide by example as a creative player. If the likes of Hazard or Silva are picked as captains, for me, that's a sign that those guys should be dexterous to inspire the team.NIGEL WINTERBURN, former Arsenal defender, upon how individualistic attacking players can rupture the archetype of the vocal and defensive captain.Manchester United's Antonio Valencia and Manchester City's Vincent Kompany have started five and six league games respectively.Seven clubs (Arsenal, the Toffees, Fulham, City, United, Newcastle and the Saints) have had four or more captains this term.All of which begs a question: Is the ever-present, totemic captain an endangered species? And does it matter?The first event to dwindling out is that there does not appear to be an obvious correlation along with consistency of captain and talent based upon the small sample of this league season.City realize not appear to have suffered for rotating the armband.In fact, it is simple to disparage the importance attached to captaincy as out of date - a peculiarly English hang-up.
When pundits - usually from the generations of retired former players - bemoan the want of leaders in unbiased football, it feels afterward they are often harking back up to that monolithic figure of English folklore.The blood-soaked Terry Butcher, or Captain Marvel Bryan Robson, or John Terry or Tony Adams shouting and pointing fingers.But Nigel Winterburn, who played under Adams at Arsenal, says that the presence of an old-school skipper in the ranks was not something he or his teammates considered a particularly important factor in their success."It didn't present us all extra," the former England defender says."I never in reality anxious who was captain, it didn't engagement me."When Winterburn moved to West Ham, the captaincy was less consistent unlike at Highbury, still he "didn't personally declaration the difference".Is the lionisation of a single captain out of step afterward the certainty of unbiased football then, a primordial obsession in an grow old of unbiased analytics and player rotation?As Michael Cox barbed out in an article for ESPN upon Arsenal's perceived want of leaders in 2016, every generation thinks it had improved leaders.As early as 1938, next Gunners boss Herbert Chapman was lamenting: "Football today lacks the personalities of 20 or 30 years ago."A want of leadership is often a retrofitted criticism applied to underperforming teams, even though teams that succeed, despite lacking archetypal leaders, leave suddenly censure.However, it would be incorrect to say the idea of captaincy is something that is incompatible afterward the investigative side of unbiased football.It is realistic that the cult of the captain has seemingly declined in parallel afterward the rise of the cult of the coach.The advent of meticulous micromanagers such as City's Pep Guardiola and Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp, whose coaching depends in large allowance upon intensively rehearsing movements and systems, ensures their teams are never undecided of what to realize in any phase of the game.It seems there has plus been a bend in the type of player considered for the captaincy.In the past, that office was usually the maintain of vocal, charismatic, defensive players.But a other breed of captain has begun to emerge. This season, Arsenal's Mesut Ozil, David Silva at City and Fulham's Tom Cairney have worn the armband in the league.These are every attacking players, most of the individualistic variety, none especially loud.But Winterburn, who was captained by Joe Cole in his unadulterated season at West Ham, believes they can realize the job."You don't always obsession vocal captains," he says. "You can guide by example as a creative player. If the likes of (Chelsea's Eden) Hazard or Silva are picked as captains, for me, that's a sign that those guys should be dexterous to inspire the team."While Winterburn still prefers the single-captain model, he adds, "There should be 11 captains out there."It seems that is the mannerism we are heading but by rotating the captaincy, are you multiplying leadership or spreading it more thinly?Therein lies the paradox - afterward 59 players and counting having skippered a league team this season, is captaincy in decline? Or is it in fashion?THE TIMES, LONDON
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