Jonathan Wilson | |
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Born | Jonathan Mark Wilson 9 July 1976 Sunderland, England |
Occupation(s) | Author, journalist |
Jonathan Mark Wilson (born 9 July 1976) [1] is a British sports journalist and author who writes for a number of publications, including The Guardian and Sports Illustrated . He is a columnist for World Soccer and Unibet and founder and editor of The Blizzard . He also appears on The Guardian's football podcast, Football Weekly ". [2] [3]
Wilson studied English at Oxford University and was the sports editor of the student paper, The Oxford Student. [4] He was unable to continue on to postgraduate studies at Oxford after failing to attain a first-class degree and instead read for a Master's degree at Durham University, where he was a member of the Graduate Society. [4]
Wilson has written for The Independent , FourFourTwo magazine and The Daily Telegraph , and was football correspondent for the Financial Times from 2002 to 2006. He writes for The Guardian and Sports Illustrated and is a columnist for World Soccer .
In 2011 he founded the quarterly football journal The Blizzard , which he edits. [5]
Wilson was the main contributor to a feature on The Guardian website, "The Question", in which he analyzes modern trends and evolutions in football. "The Question" has included articles on the decline of the box-to-box midfielder, the importance of the modern full-back and the evolution of the defensive striker. [6] He is currently the main football columnist for The Observer .
His book, Inverting the Pyramid was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2008, [7] and won 'Best Football Book' at the British Sports Book Awards in 2009. [8] Five of his other books have also been shortlisted for the award. Inverting the Pyramid also won the Premio Antonio Ghirelli and was shortlisted for the German football book of the year award. [9]
His book, "Angels with Dirty Faces" won "Best Football Book" and "Best Historical Book" at the Polish Sports Book Awards (Sportowa Książka Roku) in 2018. [10]
He won FSA Football Writer of the Year in 2012, 2017 and 2021. [11] [12]
He supports Sunderland A.F.C. in football. [13] [14] [15] He plays cricket on the Authors XI team with other British writers. [16] He is also an occasional player for Hutton CC 5th XI, with whom his most memorable innings of an unbeaten 117 runs was achieved on July 9th 2022 against Belhus CC 5th XI. He appeared in Series 10 of the quiz show Only Connect as part of the Nightwatchmen team. He resides in Wandsworth, South London. [17]
In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundaries, with mobility and passing ability, they are often referred to as deep-lying midfielders, play-makers, box-to-box midfielders, or holding midfielders. There are also attacking midfielders with limited defensive assignments.
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