The So, Ladies and gentlemen as part of our summer series of interviews with various people from the

football world I'm extremely pleased

to be joined by Michael Cox well known throughout the internet as

Zonal marking but now Michael we have to use your real name because you're not just an internet person anymore.

You're now like a proper grown-up author.

Yeah, existing in the real world and not just on Twitter.

Yeah, it's nice to have that upgrade, yeah. So tell us a bit about the book, The mixer, which has just come out pretty recently.

Yeah, it's basically a history of the Premier League.

Obviously, the 25th anniversary this summit seemed like a good occasion

for someone to write a book about the Premier League.

They've never really been a particularly comprehensive account written before.

Obviously it focuses a little bit on tactics,

but it's, you know, something total, there's stories,

there's fun stuff, it's not too technical,

there's no diagrams, and it's it's you know a story rather than a

kind of technical handbook so I'm confident that it's quite a good read.

Fantastic. You're of course very well known for your tactical stuff and I'm really interested in whether

so when you went and kind of look back to do the book even if the bent was a bit more a bit more generalist and not quite

so specifically tactical did you did you discover anything about the tactical

evolution of the Premier League that you weren't expecting yeah I mean a few things really I mean you know the book starts with a look at the

the change to the back bus rule and I've kind of always been aware that was quite you

know a important thing in the

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