Keeper has kept eight clean sheets in succession but is keen to acknowledge the team ethic Keeper has kept eight clean sheets in succession but is keen to acknowledge the team ethic A s they like to say in the US, dee-fense wins championships. The sentiment is not an exclusively American thing. “Attack wins you games, defence win you titles,” Sir Alex Ferguson once said. And he should know, having won quite a lot of them with Manchester United. As England look forward to next summer’s World Cup