Inverting the pyramidJonathan 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

Many MPs are of the lowest imaginable quality

to find such old-fashioned clarity of belief and deed

Alicia shoots Gabriel five times and then never speaks another word

or aggression - he's helped to fix it

who is running a struggling boarding school for girls

haunted daily by terrible visions of the dead

She skips school

'Deliciously addictive

Kate shares her deeply personal story

But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep

the widowed farmer

People suffer fits