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Jonathan Wilson charts how the concept of football tactics spread around the globe. Gradually a marauding five up front became inverted, to the point where one up front, or even no recognized out and out striker, is today far from unusual.
For such a potentially dry subject as soccer formations this was interesting enough. There were a few times I felt like a little more explanation would have been nice though.