"In the summer of 2002, Angelo Di Livio was competing at the World Cup in the shiny new stadiums of Japan and Korea. A couple of months later, he was playing in the Italian fourth division at grounds that held barely 4,000 people. This was not a dramatic fall from grace, however — this was […]
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Issue Thirty Seven
Introduction Issue 37: Editor’s Note – Jonathan Wilson’s Editor’s Note from Issue Thirty Seven Life and Death All Things To All Men – Dermot Corrigan The goalkeeper Ricardo Zamora was both honoured and imprisoned by both sides in the Civil War A Cup Of Tea Then Blank – Tom Harvey How a badly installed boiler almost killed the […]
Island Games
This is an extract from World In Motion: The Inside Story of Italia ’90 by Simon Hart and published by deCoubertin. You can win a copy of the book by entering our competition here. Island games Part 2 – Republic of Ireland The rain came down in Cagliari. Occasionally, so too did the ball. It […]
The Rejected Retraction, Richard Jolly
What if Alex Ferguson had retired in 2001, and Sven-Göran Eriksson had replaced him at Old Trafford? Sir Alex Ferguson rang Maurice Watkins. He had changed his mind, the Manchester United manager reported. Or rather it had been changed for him. The Ferguson family, corralled by Cathy, his wife, had informed him he was not […]
The Squall, Issue Four – Red
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Issue Thirty Six
Introduction Editor’s Note – Jonathan Wilson’s Editor’s Note from Issue Thirty Six Bielsa The Quest For Happiness – Federico Bassahún Marcelo Bielsa’s management has always examined his own soul São Paulo 1 Newell’s Old Boys 0 – Joshua Law The Libertadores final defeat that established the pattern of Bielsa near-misses No Airs – Rob Bagchi How Bielsa’s honesty and […]
Sixth Year Collection
All four hard copy issues from The Blizzard’s sixth year (Issues Twenty One to Twenty Four inclusive) in one bundle.
Blizzard-41 Sampler
The Worst Foul In History?, Ian Baker
Wycombe’s Jason Cousins and a lunge that encapsulates the brutal past of the position Jason Cousins does not have the status of Dani Alves, Philipp Lahm, Cafu and Kyle Walker but the former Wycombe Wanderers right-back gained a measure of fame in September 1993 for what might be the worst foul of all time. Cousins […]
Wenger, L’Auteur
"Yet there is maybe another reason that Wenger’s own cinematic narrative increasingly resembles a hubristic Greek tragedy rather than a story of redemption. Just as Sonny Corleone’s death scene in The Godfather no longer shocks, the methods which gave Wenger such an edge in the mid-90s are no longer so unique. Every team now applies […]