I've never quite understood the love in towards Wise, it's been fairly apparent since that the brains behind the combination was Poyet.
Maybe the fitness stuff, but the defensive line-up of the team was straight out of the Wimbledon book - little width, pressure the 30 yard square around where the ball is currently (hence you'd see the left winger right over into the middle of the pitch when it was down our right and people would knock Monkhouse). The idea behind this is that even if a perfect cross field ball is played, it takes so long to get to the player that you can re-group and by pressuring the player with the ball and cutting off short balls, the long one becomes much more pressured.
It's one of the rare times, in the past 15 years, that I've been able to really spot a "style" of play from us. Not since Hoddle in fact, even if they were very different.