“It looked to me as if the English have gone backwards into the old times of kick and rush.

In Continental Europe the style is called kick and rush.

"You ask the other players and they haven't got a very high opinion of the English game, they'll tell you it's all kick and rush.

Skiffle band Kick and Rush also entertained the crowds with their music and song.

And I fink the team should be a little more avant-Guardian, no ponceing about with this kick and rush nonsense.

Despite the Scottish win, the Irish kick and rush tactics were too much for the Welsh forwards and Wales lost 4-8.

Countries on Europe’s periphery had dysfunctional indigenous styles of play: the British favoured kick and rush, Greeks dribbled too much, and Spaniards prized the “furia española”, the frenzied but thoughtless “Spanish fury”.

With the influence of such managers as Stan Cullis he steered a generation of coaches towards the kick and rush blueprint that would dictate the English perspective on how the game should be played for almost half a century.

Absolutely, you didn't come here and kick and rush, you didn't come here and defend, you played some delightful football, football I know you always like to play, that must have pleased you the way the game was played.

Two months after joining Ross County, De Leeuw said he had settled in Scotland and he thought that the Scottish Football playing style was more physical than in The Netherlands, but wasn't just "a bit kick and rush."

'We are not playing kick and rush,' he insisted when driving out to a friend's hotel in the Derwent Valley below Consett, pausing now and then to savour the uncluttered Durham landscape, his heart for ever in the North-east of England.

Not kick and rush.

He played it too safe and, after offering early tactical nuance, England resorted to a 4-4-2 with a long-ball style that lended credence to Franz Beckenbauer's "kick and rush" jibe.

The German legend has launched a vicious attack on Fabio Capello 's side, accusing them of a "kick and rush" approach to the game, claiming they have gone backwards under their £6million-a-year boss, but he does not feel there is any reason for England to be deflected from their chosen path.