If you tune into any Premier League game this season there is only a 54.7 per cent chance the ball is in play (Credit: Serena Taylor) Xabi Alonso has never forgotten his introduction to the Premier ...

Michael Kayode dries the ball before a throw-in Alex Pantling/Getty Images Long throws are the hot new thing. Well, sort of. They are not really that new, and whether they are hot or not is a matter ...

The long throw is back in fashion in the Premier League, where most teams have decided that hurling the ball into the penalty box is once again a valid method of attack. In the English top flight, ...

Once upon a time the long throw was almost exclusively the preserve of Tony Pulis and his Stoke City team, but now it is being used by pretty much every Premier League team - and it is working. Last ...