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Chris Dunlavy: Let’s not be taken in by this percentage game nostalgia

Chris Dunlavy
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

IS IT my imagination? Or has everyone simply forgotten how terrible percentage football is to watch?
The revival of the long throw has been greeted with an outpouring of glee to rival the return of
Oasis. And just like Liam and Noel, yesterday’s men like Tony Pulis and Sam Allardyce have suddenly become the heroes of the hour.
Columns of coverage are devoted to the upward trend in goals from set-pieces and the steep decline in goals from open play.
Look, they say, if Mikel Arteta is doing it, Big Sam must have been right all along.
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