The Search for Football’s Missing Link: The Evolution of Dribbling – Part 1

Srijandeep Das

7th November 2017 | 5:43 AM

This is a series on the history of English Football’s Anxieties. This is part 5.
Here’s part 1 – Masturbation and muscular Christianity2, part 2 – It’s Bad Manners Being Clever!, part 3 – Magician, Stakhanovite, Stanley Matthews, part 4 – Vinnie Jones, the Portrait of an Antagonist.

Football’s Missing Link was the last common ancestor of yesterday’s dribblers and today’s. His dribbles were not merely dribbles – they were expeditions.

The Search for Football’s Missing Link: The Evolution of Dribbling – Part 1

Note: This article is to be read in the voice of Sir David Attenborough. If you’re not as adept in mimicry as the cockatoo Cacatuidae, the plum-headed parakeet, or even the beluga whale, there’s always your imagination. If, by any stroke of luck, the dear reader happens to dabble in the occult, and would like the full Dolby Digital Surround SoundTM experience, he/she is welcome to the use of an Ouija board.

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