This week's guest is football writer Michael Cox.
Michael now writes for The Athletic, having risen to prominence by covering football tactics on his blog, Zonal Marking. Since launching that blog, he has written for the Guardian and ESPN and published two books on the history of tactics in the Premier League and European football, The Mixer and Zonal Marking.
We talk about why he start writing about tactics, and why he wouldn't do so if he was trying to break into journalism today. We talk about the incredible influence of Pep Guardiola, why his ideas have spread so quickly and so widely, and whether this is a good thing.
Plus: the tactical illiteracy of the England 'Golden Generation', the trends and statistics we will be talking about in a couple of years' time, and why the end of the Super League does not mean the end of football's major problems.
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