Before The 'D'...Association Football around the world, 1863-1937.

To summarize the development of tactical formations- in the earliest days Association Football was based on all out attack (although the sco...

Herbert Chapman (1878-1934) was once described as the first manager who set out methodically to organize the winning of matches . He is f...

In their first international of 1879, against England at Kennington Oval, Scotland played a very progressive 2-3-5 line up (England pl...

On 5th March 1872 Queen's Park met Wanderers in the  FA Cup semi final at Kennington Oval. The game finished  goalless. Queen's Par...

Throughout most of the 74 year period covered by this blog, 2-3-5, or the pyramid, was the dominant formation in football. The emphases in ...