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Was the Scots who first thought to pass the ball between teammates. To become the leisure-time passion of the English working class, it 6).Īlthough the sport emerged from folk custom via public schools Technique versus physique on the other” (p. Interlinked tensions: aesthetics versus results on the one side and Wilson’s study of tactics reveals “the history of two May win (or cynically try not to lose) by negating creativity with But a team less talented or less concerned with spectacle

Movement that dazzles the eye through the synthesis of teamwork and A team mayĪttempt an aesthetically pleasing style of play, with passing and Played, what ideas inform the way each team plays. Inverting the Pyramid, depends upon how each game is The truth, as one learns from Jonathan Wilson’s Those less impressed dismiss what most of the world calls footballĪs boring. Lovers of soccer often call the sport the Beautiful Game while In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
