Ramble Meets... Jonathan Wilson
Football Ramble
Stak Production
4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In the latest episode of Ramble Meets, Luke welcomes author, historian and broadcaster Jonathan Wilson into the studio to discuss a life and career spanning ten books, countless newspaper articles and editorship of a quarterly football periodical.
A graduate of Oxford University, Jonathan cut his teeth working for onefootball.com before writing his first book about Eastern European football, called Behind The Curtain. Books about football tactics, Brian Clough, and Argentinian football have followed, and this year Jonathan's tenth work, The Barcelona Legacy, hit the shelves.
In this revealing interview, Jonathan talks candidly about his career, his upbringing in the north east, and explains why Louis van Gaal will always be a terrifying man.
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| 0:34.0 | This episode of ramble meets is sponsored by Betfair 365. |
| 0:38.0 | Jonathan Wilson, journalist historian, lone wolf. |
| 0:47.9 | Jonathan, we are used to reading all about your books and knowing you as a prominent |
| 0:54.2 | author, particularly in football. |
| 0:57.0 | What's the most important thing other than being able to write, of course, that an author |
| 1:01.0 | needs? |
| 1:02.0 | Patience, I guess. |
| 1:05.3 | You know, writing a book is a long process. |
| 1:07.8 | You don't do it in a week. |
| 1:09.7 | It takes a year, new enough. |
| 1:13.3 | Ends of day face took three and a half years. |
| 1:16.0 | So you've got to be prepared to do the research, do the legwork. |
| 1:21.0 | You often find yourself spending days researching something that turns out to be half a line. |
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