The 2010 World Cup in South Africa thus heralds the end of capital’s progressive function of spreading football to all corners of the globe, after which it becomes essentially decadent. This school of thought has long held that communism remains a tendency within proletarian subjectivity incapable of adequate realization until the FIFA World Cup has been held in all five major continents. On the one hand there has been the focus on the direct correlation between the growth of football and proletarian formation. Previous embryonic theoretical explorations have in different ways grasped football as essentially either a precursor to or pre-figuration of communism. But it does at least point towards a novel trajectory that any theoretical efforts aspiring towards a dialectical approach will be forced to engage with. This book in turn also fails to adequately address the problematic. But the salient points are worthy of more general consideration and we trust that readers will enjoy extracting them from the bullshit.ĭespite its obvious importance the relationship between football and communism remains relatively neglected by theorists in both camps. And we have little time for the author’s apparent targets. We obviously reject the notion that a book can be read politically so as to imbue it with a meaning which was not intended by the original author. We have decided to print this review of Inverting the pyramid – The history of football tactics by Jonathan Wilson (Orion books, 2008) despite its spurious nature.

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