[SIGNED perm] Wesley Hoedt

There's a few sides (Sparta Rotterdam in the Netherlands is one, there's definitely one in Brazil as well but can't remember exactly who) whose starting 11 every game are numbered 1-11, meaning every game players could switch numbers etc. Makes doing analysis awfully annoying and tricky.

 

Surely you can use players' names as a unique identifier rather than their squad numbers?

 

They don't have the names on the back of the shirts either! You can always cross reference name to shirt number for each game but it still adds a significant amount of time it took on each report to account for it.

 

Of course, back in the 1930s there were no shirt numbers at all. You had to recognise players by their haircuts, then go round to all the local barbers to find out who was who.

 

I expect thet all change shirts at half time to.
Genuinely I do wonder if they do this to try to avoid opponents getting good data on them from the likes of you !

 

Old school. Us old gits like it!

 

If you can read them

 

There was a season when Millwall players all had THELIONS above their shirt numbers. Amazing that they had a squad all drawn from the same family , and they weren't even the Krays.

 

I'm watching a match where both teams are wearing 1-11 with no names on the shirts. Reason must be a gap in the time and space continuum.