Their three centre halves, sat deep, made it tough for Agbonlahor to break the back line, and they always had a spare man to either track the front-runner or follow Heskey when he dropped a little deeper.

BBC: Lee Dixon's tactical view

People sometimes mention the track-and-field runner as a comparably lonely figure, but I have to laugh.

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The Oregon track brand, you see, was that of the brash distance runner.

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