Even 13 times English Premier League title winning Scottish manager, Alex Ferguson, experimented with three-at-the-back. Louis van Gaal later presented the system as new when he deployed it with the Netherlands at the 2014 World Cup. But United had been using half-back lines well before their 1908 title triumph, when Dick Duckworth, Charlie Roberts and
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