Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

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The FA failed to respond to Sheffield’s overtures, and so for several years two codes—or rather, two basic codes, because there were also variations in Nottingham and other cities—existed. They met for the first time in 1866, with a match between London and Sheffield in Battersea Park on March 31, 1866. London won 2–0, with contemporary reports suggesting they were the more skillful side but had been unsettled by Sheffield’s physicality. Fourteen years later the southern version of the game took another step towards uniformity as J. C. Thring—the younger brother of Edward, the Uppingham headmaster—having been thwarted in an earlier attempt to draw up a set of unified rules at Cambridge, brought out a set of ten laws entitled “The Simplest Game.” The following October, another variant, the “Cambridge University Football Rules,” was published. Crucially, a month later, the Football Association was formed, and it immediately set about trying to determine a definitive set of laws of the game, intending still to combine the best elements of both the dribbling and the handling game. The conclusion is placed immediately at the beginning (see the bold text on the image above), making the managing director of the company instantly aware from the main subject line of the letter. If he continues reading through the letter, he will notice the first sentence contains the situation, the second sentence includes the complication and question, and everything after is the answers.

Phipps, Keith (October 8, 2021). " Ted Lasso Season-Finale Recap: Last Match of the Season". Vulture . Retrieved March 14, 2023. That said, Wilson's narrative veers between chronological and tactical, and sometimes loses the thread of the historical timeline to chase down a change in formation. For one not totally versed in the lore of football, it can get a bit confusing, as do the references to British (and other) football heroes that are at best only a rumor to American readers.

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I’ve always regarded football as something more than just a game. And even if it was truly a game, then it was never just about scoring goals. Football represents the evolution of cultures and the mixing of ideas among great nations. Football is also about the struggle between individuality and the system, between traditions and avant-gardism. Practically, football is about life. And when the final whistle is over, when one talks about the game that has just ended, it’s not only about the score on the newspaper headlines. It’s about the dreams… fulfilled or ended. It’s about passion… won or lost. It’s bigger than the player. Bigger than the club. It’s as big as life itself. This was eventually superseded by the 4-2-4, which Brazil utilised effectively to win two world cups in 1958 and 1962.

The second letter is significantly shorter and more attention-grabbing by inverting the pyramid with SCQA. The type of writing is concise and effective, and it establishes a story that interests the reader. Related Readings This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, but tactics in football are constantly changing and evolving. In my lifetime, football has changed significantly.Thanks to Philippe Auclair for his help in France, to Christoph Biermann, Raphael Honigstein, and Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger for their assistance with all matters German, to Simon Kuper and Auke Kok for their words of wisdom on Dutch soccer, and to Sid Lowe and Guillem Balagué for their advice on Spain. Thanks also to Brian Glanville for his unfailing generosity of spirit and for putting me right on a number of historical matters. The differing sets of rules frustrated efforts to establish soccer at universities until, in 1848, H. C. Malden of Godalming, Surrey, convened a meeting in his rooms at Cambridge with representatives of Harrow, Eton, Rugby, Winchester, and Shrewsbury—and, remarkably, two nonpublic schools—at which were collated what might be considered the first unified Laws of the Game. “The new rules were printed as the ‘Cambridge Rules,’” Malden wrote. “Copies were distributed and pasted up on Parker’s Piece [an area of open grassland in the center of the city], and very satisfactorily they worked, for it is right to add that they were loyally kept and I never heard of any public school man who gave up playing for not liking the rules.”