Football, Tactics & History - with Jonathan Wilson
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2019
⏱️ 79 minutes
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How did he write 'Inverting The Pyramid' in nine months? What does his desktop look like? Who's the most influential tactician of all time? Jonathan Wilson joins Tifo to answer all of these questions and more.
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| 0:00.0 | My name's Sharzad Kiade. I'm a Gemini Pescatarian, a mom of two wild little boys. I'm Susan Yara. I'm a mom of two also. This morning, I went to the bathroom alone. I woke up at five, put my boob in her mouth, and then she took a dump because that's what she uses me for. That's what you're going to hear a lot of our stories and experiences and our crazy journeys to motherhood. It's for all moms, |
| 0:22.9 | not for all dads, not fathers and moms, for all moms. It's going to be good all time. You guys are |
| 0:27.6 | going to want to stick around, promise. So subscribe. Hello, and welcome to the TIFO football |
| 0:34.8 | podcast. I'm Joe Devine, and I'm joined today by Alex Stewart. Hello. And we are both delighted to be joined by Jonathan. Hello, Jonathan. Hi, how you doing? I'm good, thanks. How are you? Not too bad, thank you. Thanks so much for coming in. I really appreciate it. Jonathan, to those of you who don't know, which I can't imagine there'll be many people listening to this podcast who don't know is a sort of prolific football author. |
| 0:56.5 | You write for the Guardian. |
| 0:57.6 | You feature on Guardian Football Weekly. |
| 1:00.0 | You've written Inverting the Pyramid, which I think is considered like the Bible of Football Tactics, or at least the history of football tactics. |
| 1:07.9 | And eight other book, are you written nine books? |
| 1:11.6 | Ten, published. Eleven will be out in the autumn. |
| 1:13.7 | Right. Okay. There you go. What's the new one on? |
| 1:16.0 | It's on Hungarian football between 1960 and 1956. |
| 1:20.1 | Okay. |
| 1:20.5 | So, I mean, most people will know of the great Hungarian team of the early 50s. |
| 1:25.9 | I think that's actually the real, |
| 1:28.9 | they're already on the way down. |
| 1:31.4 | And I have to say, |
| 1:32.8 | I didn't really find why this has happened, |
| 1:34.9 | but you had this incredibly rich culture in Budapest, |
| 1:38.2 | particularly in the early 1920s. |
| 1:41.1 | As I say, |
| 1:42.0 | I don't know why it was so rich.'ve got a couple of theories but I'm not |
| 1:45.9 | convinced by any of them but then because of the political and economic situation in |
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