THE LOWDOWN EPISODE #103 - THE RELATIONIST APPROACH w/ JAMIE HAMILTON

"It is in destabilization and movement and not stability and fixedness that reality finds opportunities to develop in interesting and unpredictable ways".

Argentina's recent World Cup success represented a shift in the eco system of World Football. Football after all is a cultural expression however lately the local forces in which the game emerged have been usurped by global idealism as to how the game ought to be played. "Without a vibrant, bubbling multiplicity of footballing realities interacting with each other the game becomes stagnant, mineralised in its current state, fossilised and frozen in time." The Argentine's crowning glory saw the universalization of the European positionist approach meeting "La Nuestra" (our way) of the Argentinian's and came up short.

Is this triumph of localism a one off success?

Is it happening elsewhere?

Have we reached Year Zero and the dawn of a new beginning?

Esteemed tactics writer and football coach; Jamie Hamilton joins me to discuss all the above and so much more.

Listen to find out more including;

- The issue with treating football tactics as a problem to be solved.

- Juanma Lillo and the homogenisation of football.

- How people misconstrue Total Football?

- Fluminense, Napoli and the dawn of a new era.

-Messi, Van Gaal and the altercation which encapsulates the tension between two counter schools of football.

Timestamps;

00:00 - 05:43 - Intro

05:44 - 11:42 - Theory v Practice

11:43 - 15:55 - Consumption of Football

15:56 - 23:15 - Total Football

23:16 - 31:30 - Relationist Approach

31:31 - 43:02 - La Nuestra

43:03 - 49:41 - New Age

49:42 - 58:04 - Coaching

Jamie's Twitter; https://twitter.com/stirling_j?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Jamie's Medium; https://medium.com/@stirlingj1982