Miami - I'm not going to trust you on that, sorry. I've watched enough football over the years to categorically say that I've seen some of the best midfielders in the world do exactly what you're describing as being wrong. Whoever has given you the nod on this may well be well-informed but it's still just an opinion. You can't just say "I know a professional footballer and he told me it's wrong so trust me, it's wrong".

Our coaching staff have obviously instructed Noble to take to drop deep and take the ball off our centre halves. If you think he's out there expressing himself doing what he thinks is the right course of action you know a lot less about the workings of modern top level football than you are making out. Footballers in most Premiership systems are robots and Allardyce is one of the biggest and best managerial examples of this. So it's not in the rulebook.