When the backpass was outlawed in 1992, I was too young to see how it changed the game of football in real time. But all the evidence seems to point to it being a worthwhile change.
No longer could teams kill a few minutes by passing the ball back to the goalkeeper for him to scoop it up, roll it back out to his defenders, and repeat the process. From t…
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