Premier League 2025-26: How to make throw-ins a weapon

Between 2008-2012, everyone who watches Premier League football will remember Rory Delap’s long shots for Stoke City.

When ‘the power of’ Delap Special ‘power – when the ball threw it from the edges to the penalty area – filled the defenses with horror.

However, when it describes a period for Delap Stoke, this short spell and shots have become one of the unused sources of football.

Delap showed what is possible. However, there should be more tactical possibilities for a set of sets outside the offside and handball laws.

About 35 times in each match, an outdoor player is allowed to throw the ball into the field, usually only from a close position to the place where it is out of the game. Oh, and – no offices in an undisclosed way.

Perhaps his basic nonsense explains why the shots fell by almost unnoticed in the last century. It’s like a strange contradiction, not as part of football, but instead we record them adjacent, a strange break before the real thing comes back.

Regardless of the reason, it is noteworthy that the law around the shots has not changed since the 19th century, and none – unlike everything else in football, tactical or technique – does not have the appearance and feel of a shooting scenario.

Here are five ideas about how the shots can be rediscovered.