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Ending the backpass farce

BRIAN CORRY ON A FOOTBALL LAW CHANGE THAT BREATHED NEW LIFE INTO THE GAME

It’s mine: Denmark’s Peter Schmeichel claims the ball in the Euro 92 final against Germany’s Jurgen Klinsmann

Imagine a player passing the ball back to their keeper and seeing him pick it up is nonsensical in this day and age.
However, this was the general practice right up until after the 1992 European Championships. It was mind-boggling seeing this in action and wondering how it hadn’t been changed many years before. At times, goalkeepers would throw the ball out to a defender only to receive it back again and pic...

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