VAR is coming to the Premier League next season and whilst we are a bit terrified of the things that are definitely going to go wrong and the fact that literally nobody is going to be able to understand how the handball law works anymore, we can’t wait for one thing: Yellow cards being upgraded […]
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Greatest Games: Milan 3 Liverpool 3, 2005 – John Brewin
Champions League Final, Atatürk Olympic Stadium, Istanbul, 25 May 2005. Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller are joined by freelance sports journalist, John Brewin, to discuss the 2005 Champions League Final between Milan and Liverpool. It was the last match that the Liverpool squad at the time would play together, many aware that they were soon […]
Groups C & D – Jonathan Wilson’s Guide to Afcon 2019
Is there a potential threat to Egypt in Group C? If anybody is going to upset Egypt, Senegal probably have the best chance. Aliou Cissé has been in charge since 2015 – there seems to be a general movement in Africa to give coaches more time and I think that there are a lot of […]
Declan Rice Prank
West Ham are back in action in the Premier League this weekend but what have the players been getting up to off the pitch? Declan Rice took part in a West Ham and Betway photoshoot, playing FIFA 20 with team-mate Ryan Fredericks. All is going well until Rice goes outside and realises his car is […]
Is Football Still Sport?
“What you see is 90 minutes of action treated almost as a distraction from the real business of sport: the narrative of news… Reality is not enough, so it is expanded, meaning is extrapolated, significance is assumed. And all of it around a structure to ensure maximum exposure, maximum interest.” In Episode Fourteen we bring […]
The Squall Update – June 19
The idea of The Squall is to help out freelance writers during the Covid-19 crisis. For it to survive and thrive, we are asking readers to pay what they can and we suggest a minimum donation of £3. You can pay into The Squall’s bank account (sort code 40-05-17 and account number 71515942) or via […]
Setting Sun – The Blizzard Podcast Episode Eighty Four
Leyton Orient’s slide out of the football league and why it matters
Italy 2 Czechoslovakia 1, 1934 – Herbie Sykes
It’s a World Cup final edition of Greatest Games! Herbie Sykes joins Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller to discuss Italy’s first World Cup triumph on home soil in 1934. Mussolini’s Italy greeted the world for the second Fifa World Cup competition, the first to feature teams from three continents. In a tournament designed to highlight […]
No Vinnie
You know that feeling where you sink back into your seat frustrated and confused as Anton Ferdinand, Djimi Traore, Phil Jagielka, Eric Dier or Vincent Kompany line up a shot from 30-odd yards out. You close your eyes and tut knowing exactly what happens next. The ball goes flying high and wide before taking an […]
Ronaldo In Moscow
"That 1997-98 Uefa Cup campaign was the last we saw of the ‘pure’ Ronaldo. Nike’s ‘R9’ brand soon sprang into action, forgetting it had a human at its core. The striker changed his Inter shirt number from 10 to 9 and became the greatest commodity in world sport, selling everything from tyres to sunglasses. Rushed […]
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