The ex-Tottenham Hotspur boss is not a fan of something in the game that has become a big deal for a growing number of Premier League managers
Former Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou believes that long throws go against why football was created.
The long throw has become hugely popular this season in particular across more clubs in the Premier League with Mikel Arteta adding former Liverpool throw-in coach Thomas Gronnemark to his staff this season and Thomas Frank, Postecoglou's successor at Spurs, heavily utilising long throws at the club, as he did at Brentford who have used it to great effect this season under Keith Andrews.
For Postecoglou though, he feels that using long throws constantly during matches goes against the ethos of football in its purest form.
"Oh, my God. I'll tell you what I don't like, right, about the long throw and people are going to say, oh, you know, he doesn't like set pieces," he told The Overlap podcast. "It's very, very effective. But the way the game is getting officiated now with the VAR, especially, I don't think the founding fathers of our game created it so that you can score goals or take advantage by using your hands.
"In fact, they took it away. I think there's a reason they said, you know what, to take a throw in you've actually got to have both feet. You've got to put it over your head rather than just throwing it in because they wanted to limit the effectiveness of the hand. It's football, mate.
"And what we've done now, what we've created with the long throws but more the officiating. Now, people say goalkeepers were a protected species. Yes, they were for a reason in that once you create congestion in that six yard box you can't allow goalkeepers to do their job.
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"You can't. They can't do it. And it does my head when I hear referees and the head of referees saying 'oh but players are just standing their ground'. That's a foul."
He added: "So what's that going to create? That's going to create teams now saying well, let's find a long throw-in specialist. But the thing is, what kills me about it is that some people talk about it being some sort of scientific thing, it's the equivalent of throwing it into the mixer, mate.
"It's just throwing it in and what's going to happen is more and more clubs are going to just congest that area more and more. And I don't think that's what we want to see. I don't think that's football. Like I said, I don't think the game was designed that you use your hands to create an opportunity, in my opinion."