What's more important in soccer: Style or success?

by Douglas Miller

Football has and always will be about winning. There are as they say no points for second place. Although it should be acknowledged that most neutral fans would prefer a dramati...read more

by Mark Harper

The sad reality is that so much revenue is generated via TV rights and worldwide merchandise sales, that the modern day game is all about winning and success with style taking a...read more

by Ben Hughes

Unfortunately, it represents the modern state of the world that success is judged as more important than style can ever be. Every season we remember the players like Ronaldo,...read more

by Tim Carter

To write on the side of success over style smacks of glory hunting on the back of the nearest bandwagon,but if any self respecting soccer fan was honest they would always choose...read more

by Neil Dixon

Any soccer team will tell you that it would rather have the 3 points for a win rather than no points in a game but look stylish in defeat. Stylish losing play doesn't really tru...read more

by Matthew Adams

There is something of a debate within the world of football (soccer) as to the importance of stylish, attractive football in comparison to good results. Which is the most impor...read more

by Alexander Maaby

Success, taste the word. It is definitely the major factor driving any soccer club and it will always be and it is as well way more important than style. The "neutral" viewer of...read more

by Daniel Bartoshefski

What a stupid question to ask? Of course success is more important. Have you ever seen anyone out there say "Yeah, sure my team won the match, but I would have preferred it if t...read more

by Mazzini

Everyone wants to see their side play attractive football, but no one wants to see their side play attractive football and win nothing. Look at Keegan's Newcastle side of the 19...read more

by Greg Marsh

Success is clearly the more important, winning games is all that counts. Professional soccer is not Ice Skating, there are no judges on the sidelines giving marks out of ten for...read more

by Dean Mulhern

Success is the heartbeat, the sole and passion, which all clubs thrive on. Every major club in the Premier league's main goal is the premiership title and/or European glory and ...read more

by Richard Wrighton

Define style. Define success. I have started coaching an under 16's team with two other lads and we have agreed the success for the season is that the players have a go, play to...read more

by Nick Housden

Football, at the end of the day is nothing more than a business and like any business it revolves around success. Can you name a modern business in which the style in which the ...read more

by Adam Maycock

Success is what matters, style is just the icing on the cake. This is what the majority of any fan, player, manager, chairman, or anyone connected with a football club, will tel...read more

by Thomas Henman

At the end of the season, you can be the best team to watch, but that team may not always be at the top of the table come the end of the season. Situation happened in the Bar...read more

by James Choong

Gone were the days style mattered. Soccer now is all about the results in black and white. You can play the most beautiful soccer and yet be forgotten but success stays on i...read more

by Michael Sawh

To look at football in its barest essence, it is fundamentally a competitive sport in nature and thus a critical element of this is to be successful. It is that which is plainly...read more

by Stephen Bate

Football is a results business. We've heard many managers and players say this, usually after a "plucky" defeat or when they are on the wrong end of a 5-4 score line. They know ...read more

by Zach Bigalke

An age-old question: style or success? A team can win, it can be pretty, and the rarest exhibit an exquisite blend of both traits... But which matters more from the viewpoint...read more

by Graham Fisher

I had to think long and hard before deciding which side of this argument I would agree with. My initial reaction was to say that it is obviously success that is most important. ...read more