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 […]
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The Race Card
"At some point we probably need to grow up and agree what we will and will not allow in our football grounds. Right now, anything goes, except for racist, anti-Semitic and — but seemingly only if Rangers or Celtic are playing — sectarian abuse. And, at some point, we need to ask ourselves why we […]
Setting Sun – The Blizzard Podcast Episode Eighty Four
Leyton Orient’s slide out of the football league and why it matters
In Appreciation Of Angelo Di Livio
"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 […]
The Race Card – The Blizzard Podcast Episode Eighty Six
"At some point we probably need to grow up and agree what we will and will not allow in our football grounds. Right now, anything goes, except for racist, anti-Semitic and — but seemingly only if Rangers or Celtic are playing — sectarian abuse. And, at some point, we need to ask ourselves why we […]
Groups A & B – Jonathan Wilson’s Guide to Afcon 2019
The 2019 Africa Cup of Nations is upon us, so we had a chat with our editor, Jonathan Wilson, about every nation involved this year. Starting with Group A, the group of the hosts, are we right to expect Egypt to top this group? Egypt are massive favourites. They’re the most successful team in Cup […]
Location, Location, Location
"Colchester United, Northampton Town, Stoke City, Swansea City: outsiders have to take a detour to visit the town. If you’re looking for the stadium and come across something interesting, you’ve got lost. "It seems as if no club in England these days can build a stadium without the muscle of a major supermarket chain who […]
Roy’s Swedish Revolution, Gunnar Persson
The following article first appeared in Issue Eleven, released in December 2017. How Roy Hodgson transformed the face of the Swedish game Roy Hodgson — young, unknown and unproven — got his first experience of front-line coaching in November 1975 when he was appointed by the Swedish no-hopers Halmstads Bollklubb. A year later he could light […]
Blizzard-38 Sampler
Blizzard-38 Sampler