Many outstanding performances in the first week of the Premier League, including the one from 16 year-old West Ham player Reece Oxford. Traditionally, English football loves a tricky dribbler. Passing is widely popular across Europe -- never more so than now -- but England has always been resistant to sterile, suffocating possession play. It's why a player like Michael Carrick isn't appreciated in his home country as he would be in Spain or Italy; why there's an audible moan whenever an outfielder hits a backpass to a goalkeeper; why Xavi Hernandez, the most influential passing midfielder of his generation, was famously patronised...Source: Michael Cox Blogger - Premier League Live News
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