Full name: Inverting The Pyramid: The History of Soccer Tactics

Author: Jonathan Wilson Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Sports, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781568587387 9780752889955 1568587384 0752889958

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, an erudite and detailed writer who never loses a sense of the grand narrative sweep, takes a look at the lives of the great players and thinkers who shaped the game, and discovers why the English in particular have proved themselves so "unwilling to grapple with the abstract." This is a modern classic of soccer writing that followers of the game will dip into again and again. Similar books: Football Against The Enemy by Simon Kuper The Ball is Round by David Goldblatt The Best Game Ever by Mark Bowden A Few Seconds of Panic by Stefan Fatsis Brilliant Orange by David Winner The Numbers Game by Chris Anderson Take Your Eye Off the Ball by Pat Kirwan Forza Italia by Paddy Agnew Fear and Loathing in La Liga by Sid Lowe The Essential Smart Football by Chris B. Brown Paper Lion by George Plimpton Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano The Little League That Could by Ken Rappoport War Room by Michael Holley Soccernomics by Simon Kuper The Billionaire and the Mechanic by Julian Guthrie Trading Bases by Joe Peta Judo by Hayward Nishioka Norwich by Karen Crouse A Home on the Field by Paul Cuadros