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'' MASTERFUL '' Time Out '' REVELATORY '' Scotland on Sunday '' GLORIOUSLY READABLE '' Metro '' FASCINATING '' Independent '' EXCELLENT '' Telegraph '' ABSORBING '' Guardian Winner of National Sporting Club Book of the Year, shortlisted for William Hill Sports Book of the Year. The fifteenth anniversary edition, fully revised and updated, of Jonathan Wilson''s modern classic. In Inverting the Pyramid , 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''. This 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 its subsequent influence on the world game. It also analyses the tactical evolution of Pep Guardiola, the increasing alternatives to possession-based football and the changing role of the goalkeeper, as well as investigating the trend of full-backs developing into midfielders and the consequent return of three at the back.
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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
