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Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
Jonathan Wilson
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'MASTERFUL' Time Out
'REVELATORY' Scotland on Sunday
'GLORIOUSLY READABLE' Metro
'FASCINATING' Independent
'EXCELLENT' Telegraph
'ABSORBING' Guardian
Winner of the British Sports Book AwardsFootball Book of the Year
The fifteenth anniversary edition, fully revised and updated, of Jonathan Wilson's modern classic.
In the modern classic, Jonathan Wilson pulls apart the finer details of the world's game, tracing the global history of tactics, from modern pioneers right back to the beginning, when chaos reigned. Along the way, he looks at the lives of great players and thinkers who shaped the sport, and probes why the English, in particular, have proved themselves unwilling to grapple with the abstract.
Fully revised and updated, this fifteenth-anniversary edition analyses the evolution of modern international football, including the 2022 World Cup, charting the influence of the great Spanish, German and Portuguese tacticians of the last decade, whilst pondering the effects of football's increased globalisation and commercialisation.
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Praise for Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
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[A] fascinating history of tactics, a book that is guaranteed to enhance your football watching; your team may still lose, but you'll have a far better idea why they did - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYThis must surely go down as one of the most revelatory sports books of the year, as well as one of the best. Who would have thought that a book charting the history of football tactics and strategy, from the 1870s to the present day, could be so engrossing and entertaining - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAYA masterful work; it could be the best thing to have happened to English football in years - TIME OUTAbsorbing and informative - The GuardianA gloriously readable, eccentric and informative trawl through the changing tactical mindsets and formations that have helped shape the beautiful game - METROYou will never read a more entertaining or erudite history - SUNDAY TELEGRAPHA masterful piece of research... Fascinating - SCOTSMAN, Books of the YearA fascinating analysis... it is hard to imagine a more readable or thorough effort - IRISH EXAMINER
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