Dribbling runners such as Tyler Dibling are exhilarating to watch, and a reminder that football always finds new forms
The Premier League has got more exciting. And it’s fine, really. For the more grudging among us it can be hard to accept this at face value, if only because the league is always telling you how exciting it already is, the regular in-house TV hosts styling the whole experience with the glazed and proselytising look of shopping channel presenters trying to sell you a hamper of executive cheese.
But sometimes the hamper of cheese is just good. The games are exciting right now. The median standard of teams is high. Financial power, improved scouting, the presence of clued-up global data nerds mean even the weaker teams are studded with mindbogglingly good footballing hyper-athletes. Ah yes, club that was quite recently in League One and represented on the pitch by men who look as if they’ve just been dishonourably discharged from the navy. You appear to have signed a 21-year-old Paraguayan genius made entirely from elastic and feathers.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/dec/07/premier-leagues-flying-ball-carriers-are-breathing-fresh-life-into-elite-game
Author : Barney Ronay
Publish date : 2024-12-07 08:00:22
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