"Why Leeds? Well, apart from a rumoured offer from Kuwait, they were the only club that came in for him. Even then, Stein wasn’t the first choice to replace Jimmy Armfield at Elland Road. He wasn’t even second choice. Cussins initially offered the job to Lawrie McMenemy and his suggestion of John Giles was over-ruled […]
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Introducing Man the Footballer: Homo Passiens
The introductory chapter for Man the Footballer: Homo Passiens, available to order today from our online bookshop. A spectre is haunting the university corridors, the libraries, the classrooms and lecture theatres, the journals, the laboratories, the field stations, the professors, the academics, and students of evolutionary biology. A spectre that challenges and revises, and yet […]
Quiz! Bundesliga All-Time Top Goalscorers
7 minutes, 25 players Bundesliga matchday one is this Friday, with the champions, Bayern Munich, hosting David Wagner’s Schalke in Bavaria. In this quiz, we’re asking for the top 25 goalscorers of all-time in Germany’s top flight. Let us know your score on Twitter. Try these quizzes too: Can you name every team Robert Lewandowski […]
How Roy Race Ruined English Football
He may be Britain’s most popular comic footballer, but Roy of the Rovers embodies everything that’s wrong about the English game” Episode One of the Blizzard Podcast, a new venture where we’ll be bringing you some audio editions of our favourite articles from the Blizzard archives. To kick things off, where else to start but […]
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