Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics - Softcover

Wilson, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1399610090 ISBN 13: 9781399610094

Publisher: Seven Dials, 2023

Synopsis

''MASTERFUL'' Time Out
''REVELATORY'' Scotland on Sunday
''GLORIOUSLY READABLE'' Metro
''FASCINATING'' Independent
''EXCELLENT'' Telegraph
''ABSORBING'' Guardian

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 football''s increased globalisation and commercialisation.

About this title

About the Author

Jonathan Wilson is a columnist for the Guardian and the founder and editor of The Blizzard. Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics was Football Book of the Year in 2009 and was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. Seven of his other books have been shortlisted for football book of the year and he has also won the Premio Antonio Ghirelli in Italy. Angels with Dirty Faces did the double of football book and history book of the year at the Polish Sports Book Awards in 2018. He is a three-time recipient of the FSA Football Writer of the Year award and in 2023 was granted an honorary doctorate by the University of Sunderland. He writes for the Guardian and in 2011 founded The Blizzard, which he still edits. He is also the co-presenter of the football history podcast It Was What It Was.

Twitter/X: @jonawils

Edition details

• Publisher: Seven Dials
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1399610090
• ISBN 13: 9781399610094
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528