7 Quotes by Jonathan Wilson

Many before have hailed the end of history; none have ever been right.

Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse.

Football is not about players, or at least not just about players; it is about shape and about space, about the intelligent deployment of players, and their movement within that deployment.

In the beginning there was chaos, and football was without form.

That tension – between beauty and cynicism, between what Brazilians call futebol d’arte and futebol de resultados – is a constant, perhaps because it is so fundamental, not merely to sport, but also to life: to win, or to play the game well?

Golden ages, almost by definition, are past: gleeful naivety never lasts for ever.

The danger all goalkeepers face is thinking too much, that the nature of their position gives them time to dwell on doubts.