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Inverting the Pyramid
- The History of Football Tactics
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 18 hrs and 51 mins
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Summary
Winner of the British Sports Book Awards
Football 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 footballs increased globalisation and commercialisation.
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Critic reviews
"One of the most revelatory sports books of the year." (Scotland on Sunday)
"Masterful...it could be the best thing to have happened to English football in years." (Time Out)
"Gloriously readable, eccentric and informative." (Metro)
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- Pen Namme
- 17-04-21
excellent
Detailed and extensively researched. Interesting narratives which consider broader historical trends across countries as well as across time.
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- Robert Fitzpatrick
- 30-10-20
history of football through the lens of formations
stunning audiobook about formations and history in football. uses changes in back 3 and front 5 to show how history and priority changed the game.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-10-22
Football history
An excellent roadmap of football history, and tactical innovations. It gives great insight into how environment and attitude mould footballing cultures
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- Stuart Crawford
- 26-01-24
Comprehensive coverage of the tactics of football and an understanding behind the history
Long winded but quite necessary - a good listen but I’ll need to listen again sometime soon
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- David
- 25-04-20
Excellent
Excellent history of the tactical side of the game, updated recently to include Pep and also Gegen pressing. Well worth a listen.
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- Mr B.
- 06-12-20
Excellent overview of the entire history of football tactics
Meticulous researched and excellently written, Jonathan Wilson provides a thorough overview of football tactics linking trends, styles and systems between coaches and their influences from England in 1800s to Bayern Munich in 2017. I became hooked and longed for more, particularly on the current game. I must admit that I found I had to commit to get through some of the detailed analysis, for example, of Argentinian football in the 1950s, but that is the purpose of the book, a wide-ranging and detailed examination of the world game. With these passages it would have been a highlights package - more thrilling, but lacking the whole picture. The audiobook is well read and I enjoyed Damian Lunch’s voice and style. An excellent listen. Thank you.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-05-19
Brilliantly Insightful
Awesome. Only knocked down on rating due to my own personal opinion regarding not enough modern day tactics; Diego Simeone's Atleti of '17, Redknapp's Spurs of '08, etc. This, however, is due to my age and me wanting more of modern football.
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- David Walsh
- 16-06-20
Great book but...
It’s a delightful insight to the history of modern tactics however - as it is a book on football tactics you don’t have the joy of any diagrams (apart from the visualisation in your head - which could be wrong)
I also feel there was too much time spent on the historical elements leaving me sometimes detached by the mention of unrecognisable names
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- Craig Chad
- 24-02-19
excellent in depth footballing history book.
this book talks about the tactics that constantly changed to game and the personalities that did it. Excellent book which has been meticulously researched.
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- MR I HARRIS
- 19-06-20
Excellent insights into the evolution of football!
Excellent details into tactics from the begining of English football to the dominance of Barcelonas Tic-a-tac style.
I honestly think any football coach or fan with an interest in the tactical side of football, must read/listen to this book.
Not always knowing the players was different when learning about Austrian, Danish or other forgotten teams, but it was worth listening to the end.
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