Absolute Cinema

‘When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.’ This is a section from Sun Tzu’s legendary text ‘The Art of War.’ A lot of Sun Tzu’s observations in the Art of War relate to war as a form of theatre and deception of getting inside the head of your opponent and filling them with doubt. Very little of the text covers the actual act of combat (as implied by its title, in fairness).

Back in October, The Athletic recorded a podcast entitled ‘How Arsenal mastered setpieces’.