Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics - Jonathan Wilson

Inverting The Pyramid. Football, the beautiful game, how did it get from the universities and colleges in the eighteen hundreds where it was played as an unrecognisable scrum to the tactical masterpiece it has become. The book is written by Jonathan Wilson the much respected sports writer and columnist, it documents footballs history in chronological order from the rugby scrum when players surrounded a piece of leather resembling a ball to the 2-3-5 formation used by England when Scotland were playing the passing game to the WM and 4-2-4, 4-3-3, 4-4-2, 4-5-1, 5-3-2 thus the Pyramid became inverted from 2-3-5 to 5-3-2. We are taken on a ...  Read the complete review