It involves quickly laying the ball off to a teammate and running past the marking tackler to collect the return pass.
[1] It was devised and developed by Arthur Rowe,[2] who was the then manager of English football club Tottenham Hotspur from 1949.
[4] This possession-based game of play of McWilliam has been traced back to Scottish players who first conceived of the idea of keeping possession of the ball instead of dribbling and charging in their first ever football international against England in 1872.
[5] Aside from Rowe, McWilliam also taught other Spurs players such as Bill Nicholson and Vic Buckingham such possession-based passing game.
Buckingham would then pass on this pass-and-move style of play when he went on to manage Barcelona and Ajax, where it would influence the development of Total Football.