Jonathan Wilson
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3,871 appearances
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 1 Sep
Jonathan Wilson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Overlap · 2: Football's Coming Home: How England Won The 1966 World Cup | Part Two · 24 Jun 2026
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Educated?
About football?
To understand football requires the intellectuality of the gnat.
LL... JL Manning.
What I think is fascinating here is, we alluded to it in the first half with that Ramsey quote about having to be better in both boxes.
It sort of feels like the beginning of modern football discourse because I don't think anybody would write this quite in the same way today.
Football, over-intellectualise, like, oh, everybody's talking about trick artistas and fantasistas and registas.
Or Dean Saunders, in my day, we just called it chasing the ball.
It's pressing.
It's the same thing.
It's hating jargon.
And to some extent, I sort of sympathize that I think there are people who use jargon to make what they're saying.
Yeah, there are definitely people who use that jargon to make it look like they're saying more complicated things than they actually are.
But I think Manning is a particular type.
I mean, we'll keep quoting him because he has a great tournament.
He's very, very quotable.
But I think actually the person who gets this right is Ray Wilson.
Ray Wilson's a very considered, very good...
commenter commenter on football and he says and he's very he's quite sympathetic he says in 1966 the supporters have been weaned on the football just after the war where everything was open crowds didn't understand when teams came to defend so he sort of he understands why the crowds are reacting as as they do while also saying that they were wrong
The final line of his column...
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