International football is ceasing to be treated as a reenactment of Europe’s horrible past. Is the age of football as a substitute for war coming to an end? "A World Cup without Germany would be like Star Wars without Darth Vader," remarked David Winner, and Germany were the perfect villain: the bad guy who killed […]
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Football On TV
"On 14 April 1937, the BBC studios at Alexandra Palace played host to the first television demonstration of snooker, an exhibition of play by Horace Lindrum and Willie Smith. The programme lasted 10 minutes, whereupon it made way for Daffodils (“a display of various types of daffodils from the Daffodil Show” — Radio Times). Another […]
Around the Grounds – January 2019
After we asked on Twitter whether anyone was heading to the football last week, we really shouldn’t have been surprised by the sheer obscurity of some the responses we received. We began hoping for FA Cup shocks captured from the terraces on smartphone cameras. What we got instead was a tale of the weekend’s football […]
Around the Grounds – February 2019
We decided to carry on asking if anyone was going to the football on Twitter after the fun of last month’s Around the Grounds. This time it’s to Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and Washington for the football you cared for enough to tell us about. FC Halifax Town 0 – 0 Aldershot Town – Halifax, Yorkshire […]
Football Index Time Machine
Frank Lampard returns to the Bridge this weekend looking for his first goal as Chelsea manager after a 4-0 drubbing away to Manchester United ruined his Chelsea homecoming. It wasn’t too long ago when Frank was last searching for a first league goal in Chelsea colours. It’s the 2001-02 season, he’s in midfield alongside Zenden, […]
Is Football Still Sport?
“What you see is 90 minutes of action treated almost as a distraction from the real business of sport: the narrative of news… Reality is not enough, so it is expanded, meaning is extrapolated, significance is assumed. And all of it around a structure to ensure maximum exposure, maximum interest.” In Episode Fourteen we bring […]
The Blizzard’s Fantasy Football League
We’ve done a Fantasy League thing…
Football on TV – The Blizzard Podcast Episode Eighty Seven
Key moments in the history of televising the game
Championship Football: Brentford Look Capable of Making Amends for Last Season’s Near Miss
After 116 years at Griffin Park, Brentford will begin the 2020-21 season at their new 17,250 capacity Brentford Community Stadium home. It wasn’t quite the fairytale ending Brentford had hoped for at Griffin Park, with the club narrowly missing out on promotion that would have seen them plying their trade in the top-flight of English […]
Against Sanitised Football
"It is a cringe-worthy advert produced by Qatar Airways, starring the players of Barcelona. It is 40 seconds of distilled ideology at its purest. Messi and the gang roll up to the check-in desk in their rock-star gear. Behind them lies a void of squeaky clean airport marble, like a hospital for rich people. It […]
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