I'm Joe Devine and welcome to Whiteboard Football Extra.

Today I'm joined by Alex Stewart to discuss the evolution of tactics at the World

Cup between 1930 and 1950, but before that, I'd like to announce that throughout the summer

period, UMMAX at football is running a series of weekly competitions, giving viewers, listeners and readers

the opportunity to win a number of pretty cool prizes. The first competition starts today.

There should be a video on the YouTube channel explaining everything in more detail,

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and you could win one of those three Lutz books. I think it's at the end of the week. We'll be drawing three random winners. So thanks very much and enjoy the podcast. So you mentioned that in 1880, a 2-6 was the primary formation,

and then it took some decades for that to shift to a two, three, five,

which I suppose at the time was quite a big shift.

But for us, looking back, it seems, you know, it's just the dropping of an additional

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