We always get told to tuck our shirts in and I was quite small then.
“It’s something I’ve always done from youth level. Their public representative - if they really needed one - is the infamously Tesco-carrier-bag-wielding Tierney, who explained his shirt/shorts philosophy to culture magazine The Face back in March. Spread as they are across five different clubs, these militant tuckers-in even look like outliers within their own teams. Of the 887 individual appearances made in the Premier League in the first three rounds of fixtures this season, just 14 have begun and ended with the player’s shirt safely secured in his shorts. They are the only remaining Premier League shirt-tuckers. The truth is that they represent a stubborn 1.6 per cent of Premier League players in 2022, five consistently tidy throwbacks, a quintet of standards-maintaining sticklers. I know what you’ve been wondering for the last 21 days since the Premier League season kicked off: what sets Kieran Tierney, Lukasz Fabianski, Cesar Azpilicueta, Adama Traore and Rodri apart from their 400-odd top-flight colleagues? The Great Premier League Sock Census, 2022 Welcome to the first instalment of It Is What It Is, the sister column to Adam Hurrey’s Football Clichés podcast, a parallel mission into the heart of the tiny things in football you never thought really mattered… until you were offered a closer look.
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