“If football viewers are forced to pick a part of matches they could fast-forward through, the most popular choice is likely to be throw-ins. Usually, these are trivial to the audience; just a means to resume the action after the ball goes off one side of the pitch or the other. The fun ones are those launched into the penalty area towards a cluster of players from both teams battling to get on the end of it. The most iconic long throw-ins in Premier League history were Rory Delap’s with Stoke City in the late 2000s, and in recent seasons it is Brentford and Nottingham Forest who have been the flagbearers of this approach. …”
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