by Alvinbeo

Created on: August 25, 2009   Last Updated: August 27, 2009

In the footballing universe, there have been intense debates everywhere about the issue of which is more important out of the two aspects in football, the style or the achievement of success. Style, in this case would refer to how beautifully the game of football itself is being played by a team. A style of play which can be deemed as a beautiful one of playing, or stylist way of playing is usually that of free-flowing attacking football in which little thoughts if any is given to defense. Besides adopting a basically attacking approach to the game, it is also imperative for teams to launch those offensive moves in a very swift manner, with little motions wasted, slick and frequent passing among team-mates spiced up by little flicks and trickery by the more technically inclined player(s) in the team. On the other hand, success refers to simply that, success. Success can be measured in two ways First, it can be deduced based on the long-term stability of a particular club such as a stable financial condition throughout as well as being prepared for the future by constantly grooming young players for the future. Secondly, it can also be measured in terms of how many silverwares and thus glories obtained by the club at present without regards of the club's long term future. 90% of the time, success is always measured in the latter way.

In my humble and personal opinion, I would opt to become an advocate of success. This can be seen from a few aspects firstly, success on the pitch is extremely crucial for a football club firstly, success is extremely crucial for a football club. Secondly, only successful clubs go to the annals of footballing Hall of Fame, and lastly, only style won't result in anything worthwhile.

First and foremost, we shall look at how success is very crucial to football clubs, especially in the rather turbulent and unstable climate of modern football. Unlike in the past, the margin of error in modern football is extremely narrow, if it exists at all in the first place. Furthermore, there is only a very fine line existing between success and failure, glory and embarrassment, as well as existence and extinction of the football club concerned. When we watch football matches, especially football in the world-renowned leagues such as the Barclays Premier League, Italian Serie A, and/or Spanish La Liga just to name three most prominent ones, we could see very clearly that teams in those divisions are very success-driven. No longer would we see formations

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