THE PYRAMID LOSES ITS POINT (via Glenn Dryfoos):

Scotland Will Have A Go Against Spain, Says Levein (Reuters, 10/10/10)

Scotland manager Craig Levein defended his widely-criticised defensive approach on Monday but said he would "have a go" at world champions Spain in Tuesday's Euro 2012 qualifier.

Levein played without any recognised forward in a formation described by local media as "4-6-0" in the Czech Republic on Friday and lost a tight game 1-0.

In his exhaustive history of football tactics, Inverting the Pyramid, Jonathan Wilson traces the process by which soccer went from a game in which your whole team was trying to score to the modern one where no one is trying to. Why bother?

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 11, 2010 1:00 PM