LONDON -- It was not so long ago that a team such as Doncaster Rovers might rock up at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with a well-worn and occasionally effective plan for downing a Premier League giant. Keep it tight in open play, trust yourselves to nick something from a set piece at the other end. Eighteen months ago, when Ange Postecoglou was at his most dismissive about the value of specialist set piece coaching, it might even have worked.

In 2025, however, what was once a great equalizing factor between the EFL and the Premier League looks to be another aspect of the game where money talks. Whenever Xavi Simons stood over a corner or Rodrigo Bentancur stood over a free kick, Andreas Georgson would step out from Thomas Frank's shadow to supervise another carefully crafted routine. C

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