Inverting the pyramid :

Wilson, Jonathan,

Inverting the pyramid : a history of football tactics / Jonathan Wilson. - New edition. - viii, 470 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm

This edition originally published: 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Jonathan Wilson charts how the concept of football tactics spread around the globe. Gradually a marauding five up front became inverted, to the point where one up front, or even no recognized out and out striker, is today far from unusual.

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