This week on Greatest Games, Brian Homewood joins Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller to discuss the 1981 Uefa Cup Winners’ Cup quarter-final first-leg between West Ham United and Dinamo Tbilisi. So to the Boleyn Ground for this one, where the ardent West Ham crowd – then used to cruising second division and on the verge […]
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Italy 2 Czechoslovakia 1, 1934 – Herbie Sykes
It’s a World Cup final edition of Greatest Games! Herbie Sykes joins Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller to discuss Italy’s first World Cup triumph on home soil in 1934. Mussolini’s Italy greeted the world for the second Fifa World Cup competition, the first to feature teams from three continents. In a tournament designed to highlight […]
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 […]
Portugal 1 Iceland 1, 2016 – Steve Crossman
Steve Crossman joins Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller on this week’s Greatest Games to discuss the Euro 2016 Group F opener between eventual champions, Portugal, and the tournament’s surprise package, Iceland. The Nordic nation had never featured at a major tournament finals before but were unfazed by going toe-to-toe with the 2004 finalists, captained by […]
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 […]
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 […]
Quiz! European Cup Final Goalscorers
33 players, 7 minutes In this quiz, name every player to have scored more than one European Cup/Champions League final goal. Let us know how you do on Twitter. PLAY HERE: Order our upcoming quarterly – including how escaping Roland Duchâtelet took Charlton to the edge of extinction, how recent handball controversies have made football ask […]
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
The Race Card – The Blizzard Podcast Episode Eighty Six
"At some point we probably need to grow up and agree what we will and will not allow in our football grounds. Right now, anything goes, except for racist, anti-Semitic and — but seemingly only if Rangers or Celtic are playing — sectarian abuse. And, at some point, we need to ask ourselves why we […]
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 […]