Sid Lowe joins Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller to discuss a game, a team and a Spanish principality close to his heart – this week’s Greatest Game is the Asturian derby of January 1997 – Sporting Gijón 0 Real Oviedo 0. Managed by Juanma Lillo, now assistant to Pep Guardiola at Manchester City, Real Oviedo […]
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An Evening With The Blizzard | Live At Your Place
At this time of year we’d normally be inviting you to join us somewhere in London for a live Q&A, celebrating a new issue and another year of our humble quarterly. Unfortunately, due to the current circumstances, that won’t be possible this June. However, this year we are excited to invite everyone from around the […]
Quiz! MLS Past, Present & Future
33 ‘franchises’, 10 minutes Tonight (11 August) the enthrallingly-named MLS Is Back Tournament culminates with its showpiece finale. And just to prove that the MLS Is Back Tournament really isn’t a cartoon mouse of a competition, the final will be played at the newfound capital of US sports – just as the rest of the […]
The Unmarked Grave – The Blizzard Podcast Episode Eighty Eight
What really happened to Andrew Watson, British football’s first black star
Issue Zero, Statement – Jonathan Wilson
The following article first appeared in Issue Zero, released in March 2011. The Blizzard was born in a pub, Fitzgeralds on Green Terrace to be precise, the night last season that Sunderland beat Bolton 4-0. I’d been frustrated for some time by the constraints of the mainstream media and in various press-rooms and bars across the […]
The Death Of Mystery
"That is what has been lost: identity. Individuality, tradition, difference: all of the things that once made football such a gloriously varied menagerie. Football is a homogenous game now. Everywhere you look, it looks the same. Gone are the days when Dinamo Tbilisi might be the best side Liverpool face on the way to a […]
A Sentimental Journey (with Jonathan Wilson)
“Perhaps, in this age of quasi-franchises and superclubs, when the structure of the competitions and the nature of globalisation makes the rich richer so they exist at an impossible remove to the rest, this is all that remains of the traditional mode of support: football not as an expression of provincial industrial pride, but as […]
44 Days, Later – The Blizzard Podcast Episode Seventy Eight
Why Jock Stein lasted no longer than Brian Clough at Elland Road
Greatest Games: England 2 Croatia 3, 2008
LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR PODCAST PLATFORM OF CHOICE OR YOUTUBE On Greatest Games this week, Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller are joined by Alex Holiga to discuss the final game of Euro 2008 qualifying in Group E between England and Croatia. A late winner for Israel against Guus Hiddink’s Russia just four days beforehand […]
Tales of My Father (with Jonathan Wilson)
“His memory was gone, ravaged by Alzheimer’s, but when I told him, I saw a flicker in his eyes. ’Do you remember Clough?’ I asked, talking, to be honest, for the sake of talking; he couldn’t have told me, by then, what day it was or what he’d had for lunch. ‘Of course I do,’ […]