Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Foreword to the Revised Edition xiii
Prologue xvii
1 From Genesis to the Pyramid 1
2 The Waltz and the Tango 21
3 The Third Back 36
4 How Fascism Destroyed the Coffeehouse 53
5 Organized Disorder 77
6 The Hungarian Connection 86
7 Harnessing the Carnival 98
8 The English Pragmatism (1) 122
9 The Birth of the New 146
10 Catenaccio 159
11 After the Angels 182
12 Total Football 204
13 Science and Sincerity 219
14 Fly Me to the Moon 235
15 The English Pragmatism (2) 255
16 The Return of the Back Three 282
17 The Coach Who Wasn't a Horse 305
18 Total Recall 320
19 Ghosts and the Machine 334
20 Pressing and Possessing 363
21 The Post-Cruyffian World 385
Epilogue 405
Bibliography 411
Index 423