Jonathan Wilson
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Mourinho’s jibes at Klopp show he believes Spurs can win title
- English Soccer
- December 17, 2020, 17:08
In its own way, the post-match interview was a classic of its type. There was José Mourinho, rumpled, bestubbled, firing off his darts. The headline (...)

Can Thiago bring the right dynamics to save Liverpool from entropy?
- English Soccer
- September 26, 2020, 09:00
All great sides are haunted by entropy. Even in their most transcendent moments, it is there in the shadows, hissing its insistent question: “What nex(...)

Sporting Cathedrals: The Maracana and its myth and magic
- Soccer
- July 28, 2020, 06:00
The Maracana wasn’t so much built as a venue for the 1950 World Cup as the stage on which Brazil would win it. When things didn’t quite go to plan, th(...)

Guardiola’s quest for control at Manchester City undermined by VAR
- English Soccer
- August 18, 2019, 23:00
Football remains a magnificently capricious sport. You can crush its competitiveness with a self-perpetuating structure that leads to a radically uneq(...)

Big guns ready to rumble again as the new season beckons
- English Soccer
- August 4, 2019, 22:30
It is the Community Shield. Both sides were very obviously rusty. Both sides were slack in ways one would not expect them to be. Even the spray of sh(...)

Ken Early: What if Maradona had been more like Messi?
- International
- June 17, 2019, 00:00
On Saturday night Argentina began their Copa America campaign by losing 2-0 to Colombia. They have picked up where they left off at the World Cup – a (...)

A whole different ballgame – Frank McNally on the literature of football
- Opinion
- May 3, 2019, 18:01
It’s not just football tactics that have grown more complex since Roy Keane’s day, as Ken Early explained brilliantly this week. Football metaphors ar(...)

Bielsa emerges from ‘espionage’ furore as a figure of great humility and integrity
- English Soccer
- January 17, 2019, 19:40
Marcelo Bielsa’s first job in coaching was at the city university in Buenos Aires. He hadn’t made it as a player, too slow to make more than four a(...)

Ten vintage Massey Fergusons stolen from premises in Co Down
- Crime & Law
- August 11, 2018, 11:49
Twelve vintage tractors, including ten Massey Fergusons, were stolen in Co Down on Thursday, police in the North have said. The theft took place at (...)

Roger Waters at 3Arena: Everything you need to know
- Music
- June 25, 2018, 22:10
As Jimmy Page is the keeper of the flame for fans of Led Zeppelin, so Roger Waters is for Pink Floyd. Waters, however, would bristle if he thought peo(...)