After 116 years at Griffin Park, Brentford will begin the 2020-21 season at their new 17,250 capacity Brentford Community Stadium home. It wasn’t quite the fairytale ending Brentford had hoped for at Griffin Park, with the club narrowly missing out on promotion that would have seen them plying their trade in the top-flight of English […]
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Que Sera, Sera, Joseph Fox and Orlando Gili
The following photos are a selection from a broader photo essay first released in Issue 33. In today’s big-money football industry, the focus is typically on star players and managers. We saw the 2016-17 FA Cup, the game’s oldest cup competition, as an opportunity to reverse the camera and capture fan culture from grassroots up […]
Ask Me Nothing
Mark Lawrenson obviously had nothing to do on Monday as he somehow ended up doing a Reddit “Ask Me Anything”. The former Liverpool defender and Ireland international spent years (probably too long) being a pundit alongside Gary Lineker and Alan Hansen on Match of the Day, but he hasn’t been seen in a while, except […]
Budapest
This article is based on Ashley Hyne’s biography of Jimmy Hogan, The Greatest Ever Football Coach?
Three Great Sporting Technologies
Tasks have become quicker and simpler thanks to technological advancement. This rapid development is evident in many sectors, including sports, and has influenced the way games are played. According to Statista, 69% of sports fans have admitted to the positive influence these emerging technologies have on their perception of sports. What are some of these developments, and […]
Crime Of Passion
"The first full international match between France and England was played on 15 May 1923 at the Stade Pershing in the Bois de Vincennes in Paris. It was an interesting game, attended by an impressive 30,000 spectators, despite driving rain and hail. France had beaten an England Amateurs team at this same venue in 1921, […]
Accidental Hero
“It was a relief to see the team sheet and to find out that Beardsley was not there,” said Lenny Lawrence, the Charlton manager, “Instead they started with somebody we didn’t know. The relief turned very quickly into sheer horror. They set Ronnie on us and he tormented us that day.” In Episode Fifty Eight […]
Quiz! MLS Past, Present & Future
33 ‘franchises’, 10 minutes Tonight (11 August) the enthrallingly-named MLS Is Back Tournament culminates with its showpiece finale. And just to prove that the MLS Is Back Tournament really isn’t a cartoon mouse of a competition, the final will be played at the newfound capital of US sports – just as the rest of the […]
Seventh Year Collection
All four hard copy issues from The Blizzard’s seventh year (Issues Twenty Five to Twenty Eight inclusive) in one bundle.
The Search For Space
“Just as a newly-formed political party would be best off finding the point on the ideological spectrum where it can find the biggest ‘space’ (assuming this party has absolutely no ideological principles and is solely concerned with the pursuit of power), an intelligent playmaker given a free role will venture to the position on the […]