Anyone who watched Premier League football between 2008 and 2012 will remember Rory Delap's long throws for Stoke City. The potency of the 'Delap special' - when he hurled the ball into the penalty ...

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 2020s are proving to be the decade of set pieces. With corner goals back in vogue and rugby-style kick-offs becoming fashionable again, throw-in tactics have been going the same way: longer, and ...

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, ...

LONDON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - 'Sticking it in the mixer' is a time-honoured tactic in recreational soccer where technically-challenged Sunday morning players punt high passes or hurl long throws into ...

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 ...

The long throw-in craze has swept the Premier League again ... just like it did almost 20 years ago. Nearly every team is trying it -- to varying degrees of success -- as fans have become used to the ...