:lol: You don't need to talk to me about holding defensive lines - I've been doing it since the age of 10 :thumbsup:
You/myself do raise a good point here though. At grassroots level it's the common thing to do holding the line even on a free kick. In the pro game, pretty much every team drops...
I was about to ask the OP if he was new to football :lol:
And as Machiavelli has already pointed out, the one recent (German) example of not doing this was Huddersfield - who caught us ou by not dropping back and holding their line several times. (something I'd assume they do most weeks which...