![]() Wilson charts this trend back almost a century, starting with the great Hungarian team of the 50s, who refused to stay in a rigid attacking pattern and hence bamboozled the English defence. Heat maps or average position markers after a game, for instance, very rarely resemble the team sheet a side sends out. One thing that’s clear is how reductive formation is as a tool to talk about tactics. ![]() While there’s very little editorialising from Wilson in the book, reading it did leave me with some lasting impressions on how we discuss football in the modern era. Viewed by many as the Rosetta stone of football tactics, and actually used in the UEFA coaching badges course, it’s an unapologetically niche deep dive into the history and current state of football around the world. I know right, what a social life this guy has. ![]() Over the Easter vacation I read Jonathan Wilson’s Inverting the Pyramid, a History of Football Tactics. ![]()
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