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 […]
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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 […]
Christmas Ideas From The Blizzard
Believe it or not, Christmas is around the corner. We’ve got quite the collection of football literature and merchandise that’ll make great gifts here at The Blizzard. The Blizzard is a football quarterly for people who think about the game more than everyone else, in publication since 2011. Every release is committed to offering solace […]
The Blizzard Live in Edinburgh – Part 2
The second half of the Blizzard’s live Q&A event held at the WS Society in Edinburgh on 19th May. Featuring a panel of Jonathan Wilson, Philippe Auclair, Alan Pattullo and Kevin McCarra, hosted by Daniel Gray. The panel took questions from the audience and Twitter on a range of subjects including unintelligent footballers, the upcoming […]
Greatest Games Quiz: Manchester United 1 Manchester City 6 (2011)
In this quiz, name the starting lineups from Manchester United 1 Manchester City 6 (2011). 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. Check out our latest release – including an analysis of some of football’s boldest […]
Blizzard Quiz Takes A Three-Week Break
With European football’s return, and after fifteen consecutive weeks of virtual quiz nights, we have decided to take a two-week break. Our next quiz will be on Monday 31 August. In the meantime, you can continue to enjoy and support the monthly publication these quiz nights have been in aid of – with your entry […]
Decline And Fall
"Created in the early 1960s by the then Private Eye editor Richard Ingrams and the cartoonist Barry Fantoni and cheered on by Peter Cook (who funded the satirical magazine in its early days and wrote editorials as elusive proprietor Lord Gnome), Knee exemplified the Eye’s eccentric, idiosyncratic view of British sport. " In Episode Sixty […]
The Blizzard Live! An Evening Of Football Chat
The Blizzard is returning for another night of football debate and Q&A – live from wherever you fancy – staying socially distanced and digitally adept on a Zoom webinar. Raising money for two London homeless charities, via the Tom Holland Benefit Year 2021. Joining editor Jonathan Wilson on the panel: Miguel Delaney (The Independent) Rory Smith […]
River Plate P-P Boca Juniors, 2018 – Rory Smith
Rory Smith joins Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller on this week’s Greatest Games to reflect on one of football’s most highly-anticipated fixtures to have never even happened – the postponed 2018 Copa Libertadores final second-leg between River Plate and Boca Juniors. A rousing 2-2 draw at La Bombonera had perfectly set-up a winner-takes-all Copa Libertadores […]
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 […]