Writer

Cover of The Power and The Glory

Books

Jonathan has published a novel and thirteen non-fiction books about football.

His new history of the World Cup, The Power and the Glory, has been released in both the UK and the USA. The historian Tom Holland described it as "epic in scope, awesomely rich in detail, and compulsively entertaining", while Duncan Hamilton spoke of "an outstanding book by a truly outstanding writer" and David Kynaston described it as "unfailingly lucid and objective".

Journalism

Jonathan Wilson became a full-time football writer in 2000 at onefootball. He was football correspondent of the Financial Times for four years and has worked for Sports Illustrated, the Independent, the Sunday Telegraph and the New Statesman. He has written recently for the Boston Globe, the New York Times and Bloomberg.

He is currently a columnist for the Guardian and World Soccer and contributes to Unherd.

He was named FSA Football Writer of the Year in 2012, 2017, 2021 and 2024 and in 2023 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Sunderland for his journalism.

Cover of The Blizzard

Publications

In 2011, Jonathan Wilson founded the quarterly football magazine The Blizzard, which he still edits. Over more than 60 issues, it has developed a reputation for in-depth reporting of issues that are often considered too obscure for more mainstream publications.