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For soccer fans following discussing and arguing about the tactics a manager puts into play are part of what makes the sport so appealing. This fascinating study traces the history of soccer tactics back from such modern pioneers as Rinus Michels Valeriy Lobanovskyi Catenaccio and Herbert Chapman. 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 will be a modern classic of soccer writing that followers of the game will dip into again and again.