Michael Cox (journalist)

Michael Cox is an English journalist and author.

He created the website Zonal Marking about formations and tactics in association football.[1][2][3]

Under the moniker ‘Zonal Marking with Michael Cox’ he has regularly contributed to The Guardian[4] and ESPN.[5] For the duration of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Cox is writing regularly for The Independent newspaper.[6]

Cox featured regularly on The Guardian Football Weekly Podcast[7] and appears frequently as a pundit on The Totally Football Show.[8]

He has written a book about the history of tactics in the Premier League called The Mixer.[9][10][11][12][13] Cox created a podcast called The Mixer with Marcus Speller which coincided with the release of the book and over a few episodes chartered the history of the Premier League position by position.[14]

At the 2015 football blogging awards he was nominated alongside the likes of Gary Lineker and Piers Morgan as ‘best football influencer’.[15] He was runner up for the 2013 world soccer talk ‘best blogger’ award.[16] Zonal Marking won best website at the 2011 Football Supporters Federation Awards,[17] and was nominated again in 2012.[18] At the 2013 FSF’s Zonal Marking was nominated for the best independent website.[19]

He was named seventh most influential football Twitter user in UK football.[20]

Personal life

His local teams are Kingstonian FC and AFC Wimbledon. He studied at Bristol University and although his first love was cycling Cox has commented that he was always committed to football journalism.[21]

References

  1. ↑ "Vox in the Box: Michael Cox". Thesetpieces.com. 27 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "Interview: Michael Cox, Zonal Marking". Tomwfootball.com.
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ "Michael Cox". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  5. ↑ "Tactics & Analysis Blog - ESPN FC". Espnfc.com.
  6. ↑ https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/australia-world-cup-time-watch-football-vs-france-popular-national-sports-a8400931.html%3Famp
  7. ↑ Richardson, Presented by James; Bandini, produced by Ben Green; with Paolo; Cox, Michael; Glendenning, Barry (4 May 2017). "Real Madrid and Juventus a class apart - Football Weekly Extra". Theguardian.com.
  8. ↑ "Goalkeeping gripes, defensive walls, and Spurs look to end their Wembley wobbles - Totally Football Show". Thetotallyfootballshow.com.
  9. ↑ "Beyond 4-4-2: Michael Cox on 25 years of Premier League tactics". Inews.co.uk.
  10. ↑ Template:Date=May 2018
  11. ↑ Template:Date=May 2018
  12. ↑ "Secrets of the Premier League and European football". The Economist.
  13. ↑ "How Arsene Wenger changed defending: Extract from Premier League tactics book The Mixer". Skysports.com.
  14. ↑ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-mixer-podcast/id1239369251?mt=
  15. ↑ https://www.footballbloggingawards.co.uk/blog/finalists-released-2015/
  16. ↑ http://worldsoccertalk.com/2013/05/21/2012-13-epl-awards-winners-revealed-the-best-of-the-premier-league-season/4/
  17. ↑ http://www.fsf.org.uk/latest-news/view/the-fsf-writers-awards-in-association-with-cult-zeros
  18. ↑ http://www.fsf.org.uk/latest-news/view/the-fsf-writers-awards-2012-2
  19. ↑ http://www.fsf.org.uk/latest-news/view/fsf-awards-2013
  20. ↑ https://www.coral.co.uk/football/100-influential-people-football-twitter_49123.html/
  21. ↑ http://footballthisweekend.blogspot.com/2011/05/big-interview-michael-cox-of-zonal.html?m=1
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