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'Wilson belongs alongside David Goldblatt and the daddy if them all, Brian Glanville, in the triumvirate of great British football historians. Wilson's Inverting the Pyramid is the seminal modern work on football tactics. Anatomy of England is its companion volume.' (FINANCIAL TIMES )
'Absorbing in detail... By analysing 10 England matches which sum up the prevailing ethos in the English game, Wilson's forensic examination of events on the bench are lent a broader context and perspective.' (FOUR FOUR TWO )
'[A] thought-provoking reappraisal of 10 key games in England's football history... Whatever happens in South Africa, this book should be required reading for all future England squads.' (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY )
'fascinating' (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY )
'Absorbing in detail... By analysing 10 England matches which sum up the prevailing ethos in the English game, Wilson's forensic examination of events on the bench are lent a broader context and perspective.' (FOUR FOUR TWO )
'[A] thought-provoking reappraisal of 10 key games in England's football history... Whatever happens in South Africa, this book should be required reading for all future England squads.' (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY )
'fascinating' (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY )
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'Wilson belongs alongside David Goldblatt and the daddy if them all, Brian Glanville, in the triumvirate of great British football historians. Wilson's Inverting the Pyramid is the seminal modern work on football tactics. Anatomy of England is its companion volume.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Absorbing in detail... By analysing 10 England matches which sum up the prevailing ethos in the English game, Wilson's forensic examination of events on the bench are lent a broader context and perspective.' FOUR FOUR TWO '[A] thought-provoking reappraisal of 10 key games in England's football history... Whatever happens in South Africa, this book should be required reading for all future England squads.' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'fascinating' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
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Jonathan Wilson's renowned ability to dissect tactics, players and managers and boil them all down to their constituent parts is very much to the fore in The Anatomy of England, which I'd go so far as to say ought to be essential reading for fans of the English game. Like other reviewers, when we get into what in fact turns out to be more than ten games throughout the chapters (as important matches that surrounded the key ones are interpreted also), there is a lot of description of play that doesn't altogether seem necessary at times. But who can doubt that Wilson's video/DVD remote hasn't been getting a hammering because, amongst the many delights here, he reminds us of games we thought we knew (and fair few we didn't!) but which really turned on a specific moment of magic/luck/disaster etc that then shaped the collective memory of England at the time. That England weren't particularly great in the early stages of the 1966 World Cup, or that the Argentina game that year wasn't nearly as brutal as it's often remembered to be; that England were close to dreadful for parts of the 1990 tournament; that McAllister missed a penalty for Scotland in Euro 96 moments before Gascoigne's wonder goal; all of these moments are not there to remind the reader that we misremember the past for our own convenience so much as they are to construct a longer history of hope, expectation and punctured ambition. And that is the really beneficial aspect of a "serious" book about football like this one. First, it isn't always so serious as to neglect the humour and pathos of the game (much of it here involving Gascoigne!), and second Wilson enforces that point that we as fans, critics, and commentators have been round this set of houses many times before in our pleading with the national team to, just for once, get its act together. Wilson asserts that the so-called "golden age" of English football had calls for change and involved the castigation of players just as much as the Robson/Taylor/Eriksson/McClaren years had and the Capello reign continues to do. It's a smart idea for a book, it's for the most part terrifically well-assembled (especially the early games which are in many ways the most interesting)and it seriously says something about the national psyche, and not just in relation to football. Recommended.
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If you have read Inverting the Pyramid you won't need to read a review of this book to want to buy it. Quite simply Wilson is the best football writer around at the moment.
Even in passages which include forensic detail about a minute moment of a match he is always readable.
Football is a game which most fans think they understand but reading this book constantly made me re-evaluate my firmly held beliefs. It is enlightening, engaging and enjoyable. It made me want to get the DVDs of the matches it covers and sit down with my pause button at the ready.
A must have for anyone who calls him/her self a football fan.
Even in passages which include forensic detail about a minute moment of a match he is always readable.
Football is a game which most fans think they understand but reading this book constantly made me re-evaluate my firmly held beliefs. It is enlightening, engaging and enjoyable. It made me want to get the DVDs of the matches it covers and sit down with my pause button at the ready.
A must have for anyone who calls him/her self a football fan.
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This book is excellant. I am delighted I purchased and read it. A must have for any england sports fan. Very interesting and insightful.
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