Leftback week

Dear readers,

This week, we will be running a left back piece a day. And we hold out a strong hope that during the course of the week, we might come to some consensus as to whether ‘left back’ should be one word, two, or hyphenated.

Anyway, these are what we have coming up.

Today’s: Sylvinho, by @Arseblog

Tuesday’s: Stuart Pearce by @BenHibbs

Wednesday’s: Étienne Mattler by @julietjacques

Thursday’s: Liam Ridgewell by @often_partisan

Friday’s: Djimi Traoré by @SFurnivall

Saturday’s: Ashley Cole by @15yearoldgooner

Sunday’s: Paolo Maldini by @Zitov2

We’re big enough to admit that this summary is only in the hope that you’ll think we’re organised.

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