The next decade: how football tactics will develop

25 December 2009

Jonathan Wilson wrote the book on the evolution of football tactics, and takes a typically fresh and thorough approach in this piece for The Guardian when looking at the future. Wilson suggests the poacher could be all but gone within 10 years . . . or making a comeback. Meanwhile, could North Korea's 3-3-3-1 shock the world in South Africa next summer? Or has their isolationism merely produced a system to bring about their downfall? Answers on the back of a polymath...