MANAGER:

Danny BLANCHFLOWER



GOALKEEPERS:

1 Pat JENNINGS
12 Jim PLATT

DEFENDERS:

2 Pat RICE
3 Sammy NELSON
4 Allan HUNTER ©
5 Jimmy NICHOLL
13 Chris NICHOLL
14 Peter SCOTT

MIDFIELDERS:

6 Bryan HAMILTON
7 David McCREERY
10 Sammy McILROY
11 George BEST
15 Tommy JACKSON
16 Tommy CASSIDY
17 Martin O'NEILL

FORWARDS:

7 Chris McGRATH
9 Gerry ARMSTRONG
18 Terry COCHRANE
19 Dave STEWART
20 Trevor ANDERSON
21 Derek SPENCE
22 Billy HAMILTON

4-3-1-2 FORMATION:



GK JENNINGS
SWP A. HUNTER
CB J. NICHOLL
RB RICE
LB NELSON
DMF McCREERY
CMF Bryan HAMILTON
CMF McILROY
AMF BEST
RWF McGRATH
CF ARMSTRONG

Captain: Allan Hunter
Short Free Kick: Sammy McIlroy
Long Free Kick: David McCreery
Left Corner: George Best
Right Corner: Chris McGrath
Penalty: George Best
Player to go up on free kicks and corners: Jimmy Nicholl

Team Strategy

★Right Side Attack
★Left Side Attack

HOME, AWAY & ALTERNATIVE KITS:

In this composition, in their qualifying and friendly games where Best played, George would drop back even to CMF, DMF (obviously lacking fitness and drop in speed), however he was the main playmaker of the team and most actions went though him. I would just correct the formation to reflect his position deeper. Hamilton and Mcilroy would be free roaming midfielders (storming through the middle) and G.Armstrong would often be found on the left flank.

I believe that Best would have the same position if N.Ireland potentially qualified for the 1978 WC...