Think it's the current wankfest over Allardyce and his new "west ham way" bollocks - there were some stats on MoTD last night that proved they're playing the same % of long and short passes as last year.
not had all that good a year. And I'd personally hope the more extreme form where possession is the sole goal rather than any real attempt to score as many goals as possible is dead and gone.
Think teams are better set up to play against it now