WHO PAIRS WINS

Vente and Le Fondre are partnership we've been crying out for

NOT so long ago, it fell so far out of favour that the only boss playing four-four-two was Mike Bassett: England manager.

Thankfully, going with two strikers up top is back in fashion and it looks the way forward for Nick Montgomery at Hibs.

I thought St Johnstone were fairly poor at the weekend but it came down to chances and I was so impressed with the Hibs front two of Adam Le Fondre and Dylan Vente.

And I'm really excited to see how this partnership develops.

The pair looked good together in the European game against Lucerne and now they have a manager who arrived with a reputation for favouring 4-4-2, so it looks like they are going to be a fixture.

It's great to see as it wasn't so long ago that formation seemed a thing of the past.

You remember the famous pairs like Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole at Man United - but it seemed to die a death.

A lot of sides have one up with a couple of wide men, or sometimes there's even been no one up thanks to Pep Guardiola and his false nines! In my playing days, it was pretty much always two up.

Usually it was a big man with a runner around him.

When I was at Hibs, it was Mixu Paatelainen or Craig Brewster alongside me to take the hits and win headers.