Category: Tactics & Analysis
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An economist and a journalist use data to answer questions fans argue about, such as why some countries underachieve and whether transfers really work.
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Christoph Biermann goes inside clubs and data companies to show how analytics moved into recruitment and match preparation.
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An early, readable argument for using data in football, challenging assumptions about goals, luck and what actually wins matches.
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Martí Perarnau’s access to Guardiola’s first season at Bayern Munich: how an elite coach plans training, adjusts systems and manages players.
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David Winner links Total Football to Dutch architecture, art and a national obsession with space; shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year.
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Jonathan Wilson’s history of tactics, from the attack-heavy formations of the 19th century to the modern defensive structures that “inverted” them.
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Michael Cox widens the lens to Europe, tracing how tactical ideas moved between the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Germany and beyond.
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Michael Cox tells the tactical story of the Premier League era season by season.
