re: Soccer book: Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Football

I liked it. Not sure I loved it, but it was good. Whether or not you really care about the history of tactics in 19th century England is up to you.

Like this book (I haven't read it so I'm going by the reviews here), it's not necessarily comprehensive. The last 20 years or so seemed really rushed. There's also nothing about Spain, for instance. There's a good bit about Eastern Europe (partly because that's Wilson's specialty, and partly because he talks a lot about pressing and he credits the manager of Dynamo Kiev - could be wrong about that, might be another Eastern bloc club - with being the originator of that.)