Ramble Meets... Michael Cox
Football Ramble
Stak Production
4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In the latest episode of Ramble Meets... Luke chats to author, journalist and expert in football tactics Michael Cox.
In this exclusive interview Michael talks about his journey into covering football first as a blogger and then as a journalist and broadcaster for some of the biggest outlets in sport, before writing and publishing his debut book on the history of Premier League tactics, The Mixer, in 2017. Tactical trends, legacies left by managers and the future of the game are subjects all covered in this enlightening and interesting chat with one of the most interesting thinkers in football media.
Michael's second book, a tactical history of European football from 1992 to the present, entitled Zonal Marking, is available now.
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| 0:37.8 | Michael Cox, football journalist and author. |
| 0:46.3 | Michael, your website's own or marking was set up in January 2010. |
| 0:51.1 | Is that right? |
| 0:52.1 | That is correct. |
| 0:53.1 | It provides tactical analysis of football matches. |
| 0:55.8 | What is it that inspired you to make that step into putting some of your ideas out there |
| 1:01.6 | for public consumption? |
| 1:04.6 | My issue was always that I didn't think newspapers covered football matches in a very good way. |
| 1:08.6 | I think newspapers do a lot of good football coverage interviews, they get stories, there's |
| 1:13.1 | often good features. |
| 1:14.9 | In the modern age, there's no need for traditional match reports. |
| 1:18.1 | I haven't gone out my way to read a match report in years because I've always seen the |
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