The third of the instructional columns in the Sheffield Telegraph and Star Sports Special was written in 1907 by the Woolwich Arsenal centre-half Percy Sands and asked ‘Is Football becoming More Scientific?’ In it he reflected that such was the level of thought devoted to how the game should be played that ‘one hears of the adoption of various combinations such as the open game, the short passing game, the triangular movement, the kick and rush method, the individual method, and so on’.
