The free man or spare man is a simple concept. And as the great Bill Shankly once said, “Football is a simple game complicated by idiots.”
Boiled down to its basic components, to be successful in football you have to, A) have the ball, and B) use it effectively. For any team, the best way to make the most of the time of their time on the ball is to work the space. To have space on the football pitch, is to have power.
