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Crossing is not an efficient route to goal. On average, only one in 90 open-play crosses end up in the back of the net. There’s a better chance of a flipped coin landing on heads six times in a row. But a select group of individuals has been able to make a mockery of these unflattering figures. Long before the ineffectiveness of crossing was quantified, beating an opponent and swinging the ball into the penalty box was the only job of the best wingers in the world for decades. Even in the modern day, when elite clubs have vast data departments stuffed with astrophysicists and mathematicians, some of the greatest players on the planet have reached those lofty heights by mastering the most inefficient aspect of the game. Wide players, rampaging full-backs and wandering midfielders have all had the ball on the end of a string. Here are the maverick figures who have consistently confounded the calculations and established themselves as the best crossers ever to take to a football pitch.
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Kevin Sheedy.