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Don't disagree with any of that, but at the time it was hailed as 4-3-3. I'm pretty sure Ramsey himself called it that, not just the press. And for years after that, English teams were lining up as 4-3-3, including us (though one of the front three was usually an out and out winger).

OK, as we're talking formations, can I ask a question to see if my more knowledgeable NSC colleagues can enlighten me? When Sir Alf Ramsey's team won the World Cup in 1966, they were known as the 'Wingless Wonders', playing a revolutionary (to us in England anyway - for all I know the South...

Passing the ball to each other further than ten yards away from our own penalty area?