The following article first appeared in Issue 16, released in March 2016. As the political wrangling continues over Qatar’s World Cup, what’s the reality on the ground? At the edge of an empty man-made lagoon near to the shore of the Arabian Gulf, I count skyscrapers looming from the dust. The road, lined on one […]
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Introducing Man the Footballer: Homo Passiens
The introductory chapter for Man the Footballer: Homo Passiens, available to order today from our online bookshop. A spectre is haunting the university corridors, the libraries, the classrooms and lecture theatres, the journals, the laboratories, the field stations, the professors, the academics, and students of evolutionary biology. A spectre that challenges and revises, and yet […]
Tenth Year Collection
All four hard copy issues from The Blizzard’s tenth year (Issues Thirty Seven to Forty inclusive) in one bundle.
Man the Footballer: Homo Passiens
The latest addition to our bookshop collection. Welcome to this serious nonsense. Introducing, Man the Footballer: Homo Passiens, the latest addition to our online bookshop. Homo sapiens are the imposters. Walking on two legs – bipedalism – couldn’t have possibly been evolved simply for terrestrial locomotion. Why on earth would the Homo species choose just […]
Champions League of Champions League Winners
The first Champions League final of a new decade takes place this week in unchartered conditions. Yes, Lisbon might have hosted the showpiece twice before but not without a few genuine supporters and thousands of corporate associates, and certainly not in late-August. These finals are often, unsurprisingly, determined by goals. Sometimes maybe good goals, sometimes […]
Homo Passiens Gallery
A selection of artwork by Matt Kenyon for Man the Footballer: Homo Passiens. Homo Passiens: Man the Football is available to order today from our online bookshop. Artist’s impression of athletic, right-sided “Man The Footballer” based on skeletal remains from 0.9 million years ago, unearthed in East Africa. The Cernes Abbas Giant as it appeared […]
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 […]
Foreword (or Forward) by Irvine Welsh
The foreword for Man the Footballer: Homo Passiens by Irvine Welsh. Now I get it! Homo sapiens is a recently arrived imposter in the evolution of the genus Homo – a mountebank, a charlatan, a confidence trickster, a fraud, a fraudster, a rogue, a villain, a scoundrel, a quack! All that academic stuff about consciousness, […]
Quiz! Champions League Semi-Final Headers
26 headers, 5 minutes “Football is played with the head. Your feet are just the tools.” – said the newly-appointed Juventus boss Andrea Pirlo once, apparently. In this quiz, just recall who scored the 26 Champions League semi-final headed goals since 1998. Let us know how you do on Twitter. Try these quizzes too: Can […]