In this first full length excursion into The 3rd Circle, Jamie and Martin try to make sense of the complex tactical landscape that we find ourselves in today.

Our hosts trawl through obscure old newspaper articles and match reports as they sketch out a timeline of football's recent tactical history.

Pep Guardiola's 'superhuman' Barcelona, Carlo Ancelotti's Milanese diamond and Roger Schmidt's taurine powered Red Bull Salzburg machine all serve as references as we hurtle through a tumultuous period of radical change and paradigm shifts.

So, strap yourselves in, turbulence is expected.

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Episode 1: In The Beginning, There Was Now