In this week’s Greatest Games, Paul Hayward joins Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller for a tactical review of one of the World Cup’s most famous matches – the 1970 Group C encounter between Brazil and England. For holders England, the 1970 summer kicked off with controversy after the skipper, Bobby Moore was arrested in Colombia […]
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Zambia 0* Ivory Coast 0, 2012 – Paul Myers
This week on Greatest Games, Paul Myers joins Jonathan and Marcus to discuss the 2012 Cup of Nations final and one of the most emotional stories in football history. Extraordinarily reaching the final meant that Zambia would compete to win their first-ever Cup of Nations in Libreville, Gabon – the city where 30 passengers and […]
England manager Bobby Robson and Paul Gascoigne 1990
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – MAY 01: England manager Bobby Robson talks with player Paul Gascoigne during a training session circa 1990. (Photo by Allsport/Getty Images)
The Jewel Thief
Harry Trainer was a centre-forward for Wales and Wrexham, but his dark side ended his career. In Episode One Hundred and Eighteen, we take an early look at "The Jewel Thief" by Paul Brown, to be published in Issue 33, in June 2019. You can preorder Issue 33 here: https://www.theblizzard.co.uk/shop/product/issue-thirty-three And access our entire archives […]
Team of the Years
The PFA Team of the Year has just been announced for the current season with a few eyebrows being raised over the only non-Liverpool/Manchester City inclusion: Paul Pogba. So as people debate whether his penalties and assists are worth his inclusion in the eleven, we thought we’d look back to some of the last few […]
The Birth Of The Fan
“We were sorry to hear the offensive shouts of one ‘Mackintoshed stranger’, which, however, were almost entirely drowned out by the universal supporters of the Druryites.” In Episode Forty Five we revisit Paul Brown’s ‘The Birth of the Fan’ from Issue Thirteen, which looks back at historical sources to review the birth of football fandom […]
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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 […]
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