Jamie Carragher on Franco Baresi… now for Patreon members. #baresi #milan #iwwiw www.patreon.com/cw/ItWas?l=e...
Jonathan Wilson
@jonawils.bsky.social
Author of Inverting the Pyramid, Angels with Dirty Faces, The Names Heard Long Ago and Two Brothers. Editor of the Blizzard. Journalist for the Guardian. Co-host of It Was What It Was: the Football History Podcast. www.jonawils.com
Ajax start catching the eye, and Feyenoord win the European Cup. It Was What It Was’s series on Total Football continues. #totalfootball #iwwiw #cruyff #ajax #feyenoord podfollow.com/1745066482 Or to join our Patreon and binge the whole series now, go to… www.patreon.com/c/ItWas
How Gianni Infantino Tried to Sell the World Cup and Destroyed his Presidency. The latest Libero… pod.fo/e/4f06ba Or sign up for SC Libero now… www.liberopodcast.com/subscription
How Gianni Infantino Tried to Sell the World Cup and Destroyed his Presidency. The latest Libero… pod.fo/e/4f06ba Or sign up for SC Libero now… www.liberopodcast.com/subscription
Ajax start catching the eye, and Feyenoord win the European Cup. It Was What It Was’s series on Total Football continues. #totalfootball #iwwiw #cruyff #ajax #feyenoord podfollow.com/1745066482 Or to join our Patreon and binge the whole series now, go to… www.patreon.com/c/ItWas
Are things actually looking up for Spurs? #thfc #spurs #premierleague #osimhen jonawils.substack.com/p/how-high-c...
Are things actually looking up for Spurs? #thfc #spurs #premierleague #osimhen jonawils.substack.com/p/how-high-c...
Total Football - the start of an epic series on the most influential style of the post-War years. #totalfootball #cruyff #footballhistory #iwwiw podfollow.com/1745066482 Or binge the whole series by signing up here: www.patreon.com/c/ItWas
Can signing two former Sunderland players really make Chelsea contenders? #chelsea #sunderland #premierleague #wilsonsworld jonawils.substack.com/p/can-experi...
Can signing two former Sunderland players really make Chelsea contenders? #chelsea #sunderland #premierleague #wilsonsworld jonawils.substack.com/p/can-experi...
Total Football - the start of an epic series on the most influential style of the post-War years. #totalfootball #cruyff #footballhistory #iwwiw podfollow.com/1745066482 Or binge the whole series by signing up here: www.patreon.com/c/ItWas
Do great fees mean great players? And why are Real Madrid seemingly willing to pay so much for Yan Diomande? #realmadrid #diomande #wilsonsworld jonawils.substack.com/p/yan-dioman...
As Fall River Marksmen establish themselves as the pre-eminent side of the early American Soccer League, hints emerge of the crisis to come. #usa #soccerhistory #wilsonsworld jonawils.substack.com/p/anxiety-an...
Issue 61, along with all in-stock back issues, is available now on the Blizzard website theblizzard.co.uk/shops/issues/
The Blizzard@theblizzard.bsky.social · 2mo agoIssue 61 of The Blizzard, edited as ever by @jonawils.bsky.social, is out now and packed with wonderful long-form football writing from Julien Laurens, Sam Kunti, Richard Fitzpatrick, Mark Franek and more More here👇 theblizzard.co.uk/shop/issues/...
Do great fees mean great players? And why are Real Madrid seemingly willing to pay so much for Yan Diomande? #realmadrid #diomande #wilsonsworld jonawils.substack.com/p/yan-dioman...
An interview with Jordi Cruyff to kick-off our series on the birth of Total Football podfollow.com/1745066482 All five episodes available to Patreon members: www.patreon.com/c/ItWas #iwwiw #jordicruyff #totalfootball
An interview with Jordi Cruyff to kick-off our series on the birth of Total Football podfollow.com/1745066482 All five episodes available to Patreon members: www.patreon.com/c/ItWas #iwwiw #jordicruyff #totalfootball
As Fall River Marksmen establish themselves as the pre-eminent side of the early American Soccer League, hints emerge of the crisis to come. #usa #soccerhistory #wilsonsworld jonawils.substack.com/p/anxiety-an...
Why do England and Argentina keep retreating into the same stereotypical behaviours? #worldcup2026 #england #argentina jonawils.substack.com/p/national-m...
Thoughts on the World Cup the day before the final, from Infantino to flyovers. #worldcup2026 #messi #ronaldo #infantino jonawils.substack.com/p/weary-thou...
The important thing to remember as we approach the World Cup final, is that I was briefly assistant coach to this Argentina team. www.theguardian.com/football/art...
Scouting, WhatsApp messages and Messi – my two weeks as Argentina assistant coach
Nothing will make a journalist doubt himself more than the knowledge that their work will be read by actual football people – but I had to give it a go
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Finished reading @jonawils.bsky.social’s brilliant The Power and the Glory. A superb humane history which brilliantly gets at why the World Cup continues to enthrall and appall.
In memory of Antonio Rattin, who died on Sunday. He was one of the great number 5s, a far better player and more interesting figure than the bogeyman image allows. #worldcup #argentina #rattin jonawils.substack.com/p/rememberin...
In memory of Antonio Rattin, who died on Sunday. He was one of the great number 5s, a far better player and more interesting figure than the bogeyman image allows. #worldcup #argentina #rattin jonawils.substack.com/p/rememberin...
The historian and DJ Peter Fankopan has once again produced a World Cup playlist. This time… the quarter-finals. #worldcup2026 jonawils.substack.com/p/a-playlist...
In 1986 Ellison Onizuka took his daughter Janelle’s football on the Challenger Space Shuttle. Incredibly, it survived the disaster. 30 yrs later, Shane Kimbrough took it into space. It’s now on display in Houston. A piece on an extraordinary artefact www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...
The soccer ball that went to space – 30 years after surviving a first attempt which ended in disaster (Gift Article)
It was on the Challenger when the shuttle exploded in 1986, but the ball remained intact. Years later, it finally reached its destination
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A playlist for the World Cup last 16, as selected by top historian and DJ, Peter Frankopan. #worldcup2026 #playlist jonawils.substack.com/p/a-playlist...
