Inverting the Pyramid: A History of Football Tactics Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Inverting the Pyramid: A History of Football Tactics Book

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, this is the first-ever comprehensive global history of football tactics by the highly acclaimed sports writer Jonathan Wilson.Read More

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    Whether it's Terry Venables keeping his wife up late at night with diagrams on scraps of paper spread over the eiderdown or the classic TV sitcom of moving the salt & pepper around the table top in the transport cafe football tactics are now part of the fabric of everyday life. Steve McLaren's switch to an untried 3-5-2 against Croatia will probably go down as the moment he lost his slim credibility gained from dropping David Beckham; Jose Mourinho meanwhile was often brought to task for trying to smuggle the long ball game back into English football. Here Jonathan Wilson pulls apart the modern game traces the world history of tactics from modern pioneers right back to beginning where chaos reigned. Along the way he looks at the lives of great players and thinkers who shaped the game and probes why the English in particular have 'proved themselves unwilling to grapple with the abstract'.

  • Blackwell

    Soccer fans love to argue about the tactics a manager puts into play, and this fascinating study traces the world history of tactics, from modern pioneers right back to the beginning, where chaos reigned. Along the way, author Jonathan Wilson...

  • 1409102041
  • 9781409102045
  • Jonathan Wilson
  • 28 May 2009
  • Orion
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 384
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