allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture” allowfullscreen> Gameweek 38 has wrapped up the season once again. Gone are the days of stealing those last few hours of work on a Friday for making last-minute Fantasy Premier League transfers; staring blankly at those shouty blokes on Soccer Saturday whilst clinging to your phone and shaking your head […]
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Fifth Year Collection
All four hard copy issues from The Blizzard’s fifth year (Issues Seventeen to Twenty inclusive) in one bundle.
Issue Forty
Introduction Issue 40: Editor’s Note – Jonathan Wilson Jonathan Wilson’s Editor’s Note from Issue Forty Politics The Years of Lead – John Irving Juventus, Torino and visiting Turin during Italy’s decade of political violence The Green Giant – Leonard Jägerskiöld Velander Sampdoria’s Morten Thorsby and changing football’s relationship with the environment The Rebels – Ewan Flynn The chaotic attempts […]
Budapest
This article is based on Ashley Hyne’s biography of Jimmy Hogan, The Greatest Ever Football Coach?
The Man Who Ate His Hat
"[The BBC’s] first adventure into live football came on 16 September 1937 when the London service from Alexandra Palace, transmitting to nearly 100 viewers in the Muswell Hill area, ran the following packed schedule: 3pm Fancy That!; 3.30pm British Movietone News; 3.40pm Football at the Arsenal; 3.55pm Cartoon; 4pm Close. Obviously what everyone really wants […]
Third Year Collection
All four hard copy issues from The Blizzard’s third year (Issues Nine to Twelve inclusive) in one bundle.
Homo Passiens Gallery
A selection of artwork by Matt Kenyon for Man the Footballer: Homo Passiens. Homo Passiens: Man the Football is available to order today from our online bookshop. Artist’s impression of athletic, right-sided “Man The Footballer” based on skeletal remains from 0.9 million years ago, unearthed in East Africa. The Cernes Abbas Giant as it appeared […]
The Unmarked Grave – The Blizzard Podcast Episode Eighty Eight
What really happened to Andrew Watson, British football’s first black star
Tour Of Duty
"Two days later the Australians were back at the Cong Hoa Stadium to face the hosts South Vietnam. The atmosphere was tense, the pitch surrounded by barbed wire, army snipers and soldiers armed with fixed bayonets." In Episode Twenty Two we look back to Davidde Corran’s ‘Tour of Duty’ which details the unlikeliest of football […]
Quiz! Liverpool 1 Chelsea 0 (2005)
22 players, 5 minutes Liverpool and Chelsea. A non-existent rivalry just two decades ago, but encounters between these two have been packed with infamous moments since the millennium passed. Jesper Gronkjaer. Daniel Agger. Demba Ba. All names now synonymous with occasions at Anfield and Stamford Bridge. However, the moment which really stirred this rivalry was […]