︎fox in a box
n.— «Your article states we need a “fox in the box”! MM doesn’t allow strikers to play like that, thats where all our problems come from. If you stand in the box as a striker, MM calls you lazy. He wants you to put a so called shift in, running around like a headless chicken.» —“606: Joe Ledley and Billy Sharp” by CFSEVLOW BBC Dec. 26, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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