“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 […]
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Tottenham Hotspur 3 Arsenal 1, 1991 – Leon Mann
Leon Mann is this week’s guest on Greatest Games, joining Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller to remember the 1991 FA Cup semi-final North London Derby between Terry Venables’ Tottenham and George Graham’s Arsenal. Rather than traipsing the sides up to the midlands, the tie became the first-ever FA Cup semi-final to be hosted at Wembley. […]
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 […]
Chesterfield 3 Middlesbrough 3, 1997 – David Jones
David Jones joins Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller to remember the second 1997 FA Cup semi-final at Old Trafford. About the panel: Jonathan Wilson founded The Blizzard in 2011 and is editor of the magazine. He’s contributed to a number of publications including the Guardian and Sports Illustrated as well as having authored Behind the […]
The Blizzard Live At The National Football Museum (1st Half)
The first half of the Blizzard’s live Q&A event held at the National Football Museum as part of the Manchester Football Writing Festival on Thursday 1st September. Featuring a panel of Jonathan Wilson, Jack Pitt-Brooke and Philippe Auclair, hosted by Rory Smith. The panel took questions from the audience and Twitter on a range of […]
Serbia 0 Albania 3, 2014 – Nick Ames
On this week’s Greatest Games, Nick Ames joins Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller to share his story from the abandoned Serbia v Albania 2016 European Championship qualifier. Eyebrows were raised when the draw placed these two nations in Group I in February 2014. Political disagreements regarding Kosovo, which culminated during the Kosovo War, meant that […]
Greatest Games Quiz: Portugal 1 Iceland 1 (2016)
In this quiz, name the starting lineups from this Euro 2016 Group F opener. Let us know how you score on Twitter. PLAY HERE: 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 football, a look at a […]
Yugoslavia 0 Argentina 0*, 1990 – Sasa Ibrulj
In this week’s Greatest Games, Saša Ibrulj takes Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller back to Florence in 1990 for Yugoslavia and Argentina’s World Cup quarter-final. With social instability in the backdrop of this fixture for both nations, the potential ramifications of this fixture could have extended far beyond football. Reigning champions, Argentina, hoped to reach […]
Marcus Rashford: Becoming English Football’s Most Likeable Star
Twitter, even so-called “Football Twitter”, can be the most toxic of social media platforms. At times, it’s overwhelming to wade through the anger and vitriol, the partisan politics, the fake news and everything else that makes you type angrily into a keyboard. Indeed, it’s so bad that Amnesty International released a special report on the […]
WIN! The Barcelona Legacy by Jonathan Wilson
We’ve got 10 paperback copies of The Barcelona Legacy to giveaway. To get your name in the hat, just send the answer to this less-than tricky question to info@theblizzard.co.uk, subject line: “Barcelona”. Which former Dutch forward managed Barcelona from 1988 to 1996? The Barcelona Legacy is the story of modern football told through the rivalry […]