I would love it - just once! - if Dunk stood there with his foot on the ball and the opposition just stood there stock still. Who would blink first? :lolol:
Oh yes, because there's so many deep thinkers on here. Seems like OUR football has the same needy saps falling for it every time. Remember under Poyet? Instead of Ankergren just hoofing the ball upfield from a goal kick, he'd pass it to T.Elphick. Who would pass it to El-Abd. Who would pass it...
The very best thing ever would be if an opposition manager instructed his players to all stand in their own half, and not move out of it while we did the dicking about in defence thing to our heart's content. Suspect we'd very soon be made to look very stupid.
It's just dicking around and taking unnecessary risks. There may well be some grand post-modern theory behind it, but I doubt it holds much water. The climax to the dicking around is more often than not the ball skids off midfield for a throw when it finally timidly gets played forward. Still...