"We tend to trace the route of a goal back to the opening of the move – or at most, the breakdown of the previous one – when in truth its foundations stretch back to kick-off and the first decisions made by every player on the pitch. The reason Götze scored that goal was no […]
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Greatest Games: Ajax 2 Spurs 3
LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR PODCAST PLATFORM OF CHOICE OR YOUTUBE This week, Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller are joined by Nihal Arthanayake to discuss Spurs’ dramatic 2019 Champions League semi-final second-leg in Amsterdam against Ajax. There was disappointment at the recently opened new home of Tottenham Hotspur in the first-leg and after de Ligt […]
The Unmarked Grave – The Blizzard Podcast Episode Eighty Eight
What really happened to Andrew Watson, British football’s first black star
The Birth Of The Fan
“We were sorry to hear the offensive shouts of one ‘Mackintoshed stranger’, which, however, were almost entirely drowned out by the universal supporters of the Druryites.” In Episode Forty Five we revisit Paul Brown’s ‘The Birth of the Fan’ from Issue Thirteen, which looks back at historical sources to review the birth of football fandom […]
Eighth Year Collection
All four hard copy issues from The Blizzard’s eighth year (Issues Twenty Nine to Thirty Two inclusive) in one bundle.
The Bomb and the Bowler Hat
"It’s possible something brilliantly illuminating happened there, part Escape To Victory, part footballing salon, part late-colonial Woodstock distilled through sternly moustachioed men of empire." In Episode Eight of the Blizzard Podcast we bring you Barney Ronay’s ‘The Bomb and the Bowler Hat’ from Issue Three, looking back at the extraordinary collection of football minds interred […]
Issue Thirty Eight
Introduction Issue 38: Editor’s Note – Jonathan Wilson Jonathan Wilson’s Editor’s Note from Issue Thirty Eight Ideals Who Really Ran BeoutQ? – Ben Jacobs An investigation into the murky world of the pirate television station BeoutQ Corinthian Democracy – Moara Passoni How Sócrates and his teammates offered a model of governance and why it ended Liaoning Cannot […]
The Squall – Update
The first issue of The Squall, out in early May, has now been commissioned, so please don’t send any more pitches about right-backs! For more about the birth of The Squall, click here. The next three Squalls – July, August, October – although I don’t yet know in which order, will be on: Sliding doors […]
Blizzard-41 Sampler
Hungary 4 Uruguay 2, 1954 – Martin da Cruz
This week on Greatest Games, Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller discuss a 1954 World Cup semi-final with Martin Da Cruz – Hungary 4 Uruguay 2. Going into the match in Lausanne, Switzerland, Hungary’s ‘Mighty Magyars’ hadn’t lost a full international since 1950 – winning Olympic gold and thrashing England a couple of times in that […]
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