Jonathan Wilson

Jonathan Wilson (* in Sunderland , Tyne and Wear ) is a British sports journalist .

Act

As a football correspondent, Wilson writes for various English newspapers such as the Financial Times and the Guardian . He also works for soccer magazines in the UK, China, India and Japan.

In addition to his journalistic work, Wilson has also attracted attention as a book author. In his first work, Behind the Curtain Football in Eastern Europe , published in 2006, he deals with football in Eastern Europe. The book was nominated for the NSC Football Book of the Year Award . In Sunderland A Club Transformed , published in 2007, he describes the 2006/07 season for Sunderland FC , in which Roy Keane, who was signed by the club in August 2006, led the team out of the relegation zone of England's second division back to the Premier League . In June 2008, Wilson's third book, entitled Inverting the Pyramid - The History of Football Tactics , was published for the European Championship , a treatise on the history of football tactics , which was published in German in 2011 with the title Revolutions on the lawn - A history of football tactics .

Since March 2011 he has also been the publisher of the quarterly soccer magazine The Blizzard .

Publications

• Jonathan Wilson: Revolutions on the Turf: A History of Football Tactics. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2011. ISBN 978-3-89533-769-7
• Jonathan Wilson: Outsider: A History of the Goalkeeper. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2014. ISBN 978-3-7307-0099-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} "Jonathan Wilson" - description on betfair.com (accessed June 24, 2008)

Web links

• Profile at guardian.co.uk