Jon Mackenzie
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464 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 30 Aug
Jon Mackenzie’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So I'll probably err on the side of, yeah, it's good that Guardiola was here.
But I think you can also make the argument it's good that he's not here anymore because...
And this is the story that my book is about, about how Guardiola rose to prominence and how he eventually fell away at the end.
That's how football evolution happens.
And probably few coaches have ever had that sort of same level of success.
But whatever the level of success you have as a manager, it always comes to an end and we enter a new period.
And that's what we're doing now.
It's why the opening day of the Premier League, I think, was incredibly exciting because no one knows what to expect anymore.
Yeah, 2008 in League Two, very close to actually dropping out of the English leagues altogether.
So yeah, an incredible turn of events.
And, you know, I mean, we say 20 years, but it was only the point at which Iraola arrived where they narrowly avoided relegation from the Premier League.
And it was quite a controversial appointment at the time because Gary O'Neill had saved them from relegation.
And then they made the decision to bring in Iraola.
And yeah, I guess the rest is history.
It's funny, you know, because I think everyone focuses on Arreola's out-of-possession approach, and I think rightly so.
But actually, I've heard him say that he thinks that his out-of-possession approach is slightly overrated and his in-possession approach is slightly underrated.
And I think the story of his time in the Premier League is...
Very much one of imposing that out of possession style.
That's a non-negotiable, obviously famously taking a little time getting that going at Bournemouth.
And, you know, the fundamentals of that style are to have this sort of hybrid approach to defending where at times you're going to jump up really aggressive man to man and try and destabilize the opponent while they're trying to build up.
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