We used to play school football games on Saturday afternoons in the 50s so I only got to see a handful of men's football matches. By the time I went to Manchester University in 1959 Duncan Edwards was no longer with us.
His role was called a deep-lying Centre Forward.
The two games when Hungary thrashed England(6-3 at Wembley, 7-1 in Budapest) were an absolute eye opener.
Poor Billy Wright, England's Centre Half(No. 5), didn't know what to do. Man marking, which a No.5 was supposed to do to the No. 9, would...