The right back role has undergone quite the transformation in recent years. A typically unfashionable position on the pitch, the man chosen to guard the right side of defence has often been ridiculed as unambitious, untalented, or simply the best at doing the least important job in football.
Famously, former Liverpool defender and renowned Premier League pundit Jamie Carragher even cracked the joke that a full back is either a “failed winger or a failed centre-back”while “no one wants to grow up and be a Gary Neville” (more on the Manchester United man later).
