About the Book: Inverting The Pyramid: The History Of Football Tactics
In Inverting the Pyramid, Jonathan Wilson pulls apart the finer details of the
worlds 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.This tenth-anniversary edition of a footballing modern classic has been
fully updated to include the development of gegenpressing as pioneered by German
coaches such as Ralf Rangnick and Jurgen Klopp, and