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JAVIER GARCÍA/SHUTTERSTOCK Andy Robertson (left) and Marc Cucurella grapple at a corner during Liverpool’s 2-1 defeat by Chelsea on Saturday Barney Ronay on rise of old-school approach among England’s elite The first seven rounds of the Premier League season have shown that set pieces, long throws and generally getting it launched are back and possibly better than ever 7 Oct 2025 - The Guardian Barney Ronay To see a world in a grain of Wayne Rooney, an eternity in a robot-voiced YouTube tactics clip. To find yourself submerged in a vast rolling wave of information in the course of only seven rounds of Premier League games. As English football enters its latest international break it is a little startling to think we have had only 70 Premier League matches to this point, with 310 more still to go through the slog of autumn into spring. Seven rounds of games? Really? Is that all? If it feels like more, this is to some extent a function of the Bald Fraudification of English football,...