This week, Harry Pearson joins Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller to discuss the third fixture of the 1998 World Cup – Italy 2 Chile 2. Having reached the final four years ago, Cesare Maldini’s Who’s Who of Italian football in the 90s were hoping to get off to a flyer against Chile. However, with one […]
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The Van Basten Of Hartlepool
"When van Basten was visiting galeries, eating steamed vegetables and discussing the boundaries of freedom, Boydy was downing pints and going to grab-a-granny nights in clubs with two-for-one offers on blue Bacardi Breezers and fights in the car-park." In Episode Twenty Five we feature Harry Pearson’s tale of Hartlepool United great Adam Boyd, ‘The Van […]
Greatest Games Quiz: Italy 2 Chile 2, 1998
LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR PODCAST PLATFORM OF CHOICE OR YOUTUBE This week, Harry Pearson joins Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller to discuss the third fixture of the 1998 World Cup – Italy 2 Chile 2. Having reached the final four years ago, Cesare Maldini’s Who’s Who of Italian football in the 90s were hoping […]
The Jewel Thief
Harry Trainer was a centre-forward for Wales and Wrexham, but his dark side ended his career. In Episode One Hundred and Eighteen, we take an early look at "The Jewel Thief" by Paul Brown, to be published in Issue 33, in June 2019. You can preorder Issue 33 here: https://www.theblizzard.co.uk/shop/product/issue-thirty-three And access our entire archives […]
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Slaggy Island
"South Bank lies three miles east of Middlesbrough. Locally they call it Slaggy Island in honour of the ring of spoil heaps that once cut it off from the outside world. It’s not as glamorous as that nickname makes it sound. South Bank was the home of the Smith’s Dock shipyard, of Bolckow Vaughan and […]
The Beeches – Following Tividale
Nestled in the West Midlands, just off the A4123 between Dudley and West Bromwich, is Tividale Football Club of the Midland League Premier Division. In recent times, Tivi’ have experienced the highs of promotion but also endured the lows of financial difficulty and the consequent relegations that come with that. During their 2018-19 campaign for […]
Slaggy Island – The Blizzard Podcast Episode Seventy One
South Bank was a grim industrial pocked of Teesside – and the home to a wealth of footballing talent