After we asked on Twitter whether anyone was heading to the football last week, we really shouldn’t have been surprised by the sheer obscurity of some the responses we received. We began hoping for FA Cup shocks captured from the terraces on smartphone cameras. What we got instead was a tale of the weekend’s football […]
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Marcus Rashford: Becoming English Football’s Most Likeable Star
Twitter, even so-called “Football Twitter”, can be the most toxic of social media platforms. At times, it’s overwhelming to wade through the anger and vitriol, the partisan politics, the fake news and everything else that makes you type angrily into a keyboard. Indeed, it’s so bad that Amnesty International released a special report on the […]
Bring Your Dinner, Ewan Flynn
John Sitton, the Rwandan genocide and the fabled Leyton Orient documentary Tuesday, 7 February 1995, half-time: Leyton Orient 0 Blackpool 1. Home Dressing Room. “What did I say to you about good players wanting to be good players all the time? Do you not know how profound that is? Have you not examined the fucking […]
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Where’s Darth Vader Gone?
International football is ceasing to be treated as a reenactment of Europe’s horrible past. Is the age of football as a substitute for war coming to an end? "A World Cup without Germany would be like Star Wars without Darth Vader," remarked David Winner, and Germany were the perfect villain: the bad guy who killed […]
Live in Dublin #4 – The Blizzard Podcast Episode Seventy Nine
Our live Q&A event at Dublin’s Sugar Club on 24th April
Quiz! Premier League Managers Under 40
45 managers, 10 minutes Later than usually billed, the 29th Premier League season is upon us. In this quiz, we’re asking you to name the 45 managers to take charge of a Premier League fixture whilst aged under 40. Let us know your score on Twitter. Try these quizzes too: Can you name every team […]
Issue Forty One
Introduction Issue 41: Editor’s Note – Jonathan Wilson Jonathan Wilson’s Editor’s Note from Issue Forty One Ownership The President Ultra – Aleks Eror Aleksandar Vučić and the uneasy relationship between football and politics in Serbia Out of the Frying Pan – Heather McKinlay How escaping Roland Duchâtelet took Charlton to the edge of extinction The Forgotten Founder – Reiss […]
Quiz! Liverpool 0 Arsenal 2 (1989)
22 players, 5 minutes Whenever Arsenal and Liverpool come up against each other that Anfield night in 1989 is revisited over and over again. And for good reason – the top two, the final day of the season, the title still undecided – “I swear you’ll never see anything like this ever again,” said Martin […]
Fifth Year Collection
All four hard copy issues from The Blizzard’s fifth year (Issues Seventeen to Twenty inclusive) in one bundle.