Jonathan Wilson. The Blizzard. Brian Clough. Financial Fair Play. Tactics.

Oliver Sparrow and Eric Beard had the pleasure of spending an hour with esteemed author and journalist Jonathan Wilson on the AFR Podcast. Jonathan writes for The Guardian, The Independent, Sports Illustrated, World Soccer, and FourFourTwo. He is also the editor of a quarterly publication called The Blizzard, which is filled with content from some of the biggest names in football journalism. The idea behind The Blizzard - available to download online or order as a hard copy - is to allow journalists to tell stories that they normally wouldn’t be able to have published in a paper.

Beyond The Blizzard, we talk with Jonathan about his new biography on Brian Clough entitled “Nobody Ever Says Thank You” and we also touch on the pros and cons of Financial Fair Play. We couldn’t let Mr. Wilson go without some tactics talk, so we pressed him on everything from the most talented manager in South America to Frank Lampard’s role at Chelsea.

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