Graham Westley

EX-STEVENAGE, PRESTON, PETERBOROUGH AND NEWPORT MANAGER

JONATHAN Wilson is a renowned student of the game, famed for his book ‘Inverting the Pyramid’ which examines how football tactics have evolved over the course of time.
When I was young, my father loved to sell me the 2-3-5 shape from his playing days, with two full-backs sat behind three half-backs in support of five forwards.
He hated that football had turned that around to have a back five sitting behind three midfielders and two forwards. ‘No fire in the belly nowadays’ he would say and Wilson looks into how th...