Tag: throw

How could you affect a team’s long throw? Give them less space for a run-up perhaps? That is exactly what Sunderland did when Arsenal visited the Stadium of Light.

Many teams also used it as a tactic against Pulis’ Stoke.

Sunderland have form for this, having brought the boards closer to the pitch for the second leg of their Championship play-off semi-final against Coventry in May, which they drew on