The Authors

Joshua Robinson is the European sports correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. In addition to the English Premier League, he has covered everything from the NFL to the World Cup to the Tour de France. Robinson’s work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post and Sports Illustrated. A native of the South of France, he was raised in the U.K. and is a graduate of Columbia University. He is based in Paris.

Jonathan Clegg is a senior editor for The Wall Street Journal. He joined the Journal in 2009 as the paper’s first Europe-based sports reporter, and has since written about every major sport, covering the Super Bowl, the College Football Playoff, the World Cup and the Olympics. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics and lives with his wife and two children in Brooklyn.