Innovators are always thinking of solutions to problems that no one has been able to solve; therefore, they are aware of the solutions already solved. There are two big problems in football right now.

An email Apple co-founder Steve Jobs sent to himself thirteen months before he passed:

From: Steve Jobs, sjobs@apple.com To: Steve Jobs, sjobs@apple.com Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 11:08PM

I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds.

I do not make any of my own clothing.

I speak a language I did not invent or refine.

I did not discover the mathematics I use.

I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate.

I am moved by music I did not create myself.

When I needed medical attention, I was helpless to help myself survive.

I did not invent the transistor, the microprocessor, object oriented programming, or most of the technology I work with.

I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being.

The managers emulate what they’ve learned from others, but who is innovating?

Issue one: there is a race to see who can defend set-pieces and who can score from set-pieces. The people trying to score will have an edge because stopping them is harder. For me, that is the biggest issue to solve.

Issue two, winning with a less positional and less rigid system.