Introduction Issue 37: Editor’s Note – Jonathan Wilson’s Editor’s Note from Issue Thirty Seven Life and Death All Things To All Men – Dermot Corrigan The goalkeeper Ricardo Zamora was both honoured and imprisoned by both sides in the Civil War A Cup Of Tea Then Blank – Tom Harvey How a badly installed boiler almost killed the […]
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Echoes In Eternity
"When Ferguson moved into management in 1974, part-time at East Stirlingshire for £40 a week, the game was much less lucrative, broadcasters usually only supplied football punditry for special events (FA Cup finals, internationals, World Cups and so forth) and the principal career options for retiring footballers were: opening a sports shop, running a pub […]
In Appreciation of Angelo di Livio – The Blizzard Podcast Episode Ninety Three
"In the summer of 2002, Angelo Di Livio was competing at the World Cup in the shiny new stadiums of Japan and Korea. A couple of months later, he was playing in the Italian fourth division at grounds that held barely 4,000 people. This was not a dramatic fall from grace, however — this was […]
La Renaissance (with Philippe Auclair)
"True to type, France’s 1978 World Cup campaign was a shambles. The tone was set before the actual tournament by a tragicomic episode which must rank among the most bizarre in the history of the competition. On the morning of May 23, driving with his wife to Bordeaux, 24 hours before his team was scheduled […]
Greatest Games Quiz: Brazil 1 England, 1970
LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR PODCAST PLATFORM OF CHOICE OR YOUTUBE Test your memory of this classic 1970 World Cup fixture – name both teams’ starting line-ups in our quiz below. Let us know how you score on Twitter. PLAY HERE: Play more Greatest Games quizzes, here.
Greatest Games Quiz: Spurs 3 Arsenal 1 (1991)
In this quiz name the starting lineups from Tottenham’s famous FA Cup semi-final win against their north London rivals in 1991. Let us know how you score on Twitter. LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE TO THIS EPISODE OF GREATEST GAMES ON YOUR PODCAST PLATFORM OF CHOICE OR YOUTUBE. Order our latest quarterly – including how the COVID-19 pandemic changed […]
Free for All – The Blizzard Podcast Episode Ninety Six
Why is US Soccer so reluctant to promote one of the oldest tournaments in the world? "Such has been the paucity of tournament coverage that for the past two decades, it’s no exaggeration to say that covering both the past and present of the Open Cup has been close to the sole preserve of one […]
Chile 2 Italy 0, 1962 – Cecilia Lagos
On Greatest Games this week, Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller are joined by Cecilia Lagos to remember the 1962 World Cup group stage tie between hosts, Chile, and two-time World champions, Italy – the ‘Battle of Santiago’. David Coleman’s introduction to the BBC’s broadcast of this game is the stuff of legends – “The game […]
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 […]
Greatest Games Quiz: England 1 Poland 1 (1973)
22 players, 5 minutes In this quiz name the starting lineups from Poland’s famous 1974 World Cup qualifying draw at Wembley against England. Let us know how you score on Twitter. LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE TO THIS EPISODE OF GREATEST GAMES ON YOUR PODCAST PLATFORM OF CHOICE OR YOUTUBE. Order our latest quarterly – including how the COVID-19 […]
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