The Super Bowl and Champions League Final are two of the biggest yearly sporting events in the world. So, a comparison between both events does not necessarily mean one is better than the other. Both events attract over fifty thousand live attendees, and viewers in their hundreds of millions every year. Fans of both events […]
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Why are Some of the UK’s Football Teams Some of the Most Famous?
Why are the UK’s football teams some of the most well-known no matter where you go in the world? We take a closer look here. Head anywhere in the world and you will be able to start a conversation about football with someone. The beautiful game is loved worldwide, there is no doubt about that, […]
Diplomatic Manoeuvres – From The Pages Of Podcast
What Russia’s World Cup stadiums say about Vladimir Putin’s government. In Episode One Hundred and Thirty Five, we feature “Diplomatic Manoeuvres” by Luke Connelly, first published in Issue Five of The Squall, in September 2020. Find the link to listen to the article and subscribe to our podcast below. While you listen, test your World […]
Quiz! Liverpool 1 Chelsea 0 (2005)
22 players, 5 minutes Liverpool and Chelsea. A non-existent rivalry just two decades ago, but encounters between these two have been packed with infamous moments since the millennium passed. Jesper Gronkjaer. Daniel Agger. Demba Ba. All names now synonymous with occasions at Anfield and Stamford Bridge. However, the moment which really stirred this rivalry was […]
Why is the World Cup Boring? The Blizzard Podcast Episode Ninety One
How the nature of international football leads inevitably to sluggish football
Algeria 1 Egypt 0, 2009 – Maher Mezahi
Maher Mezahi joins Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller for this week’s episode of Greatest Games to look back on the chaotic World Cup qualifying play-off between north African rivals Algeria and Egypt in 2009. The match was the third of the year between the two sides played on neutral grounds in Omdurman, Sudan. The rivalry […]
Tour Of Duty
"Two days later the Australians were back at the Cong Hoa Stadium to face the hosts South Vietnam. The atmosphere was tense, the pitch surrounded by barbed wire, army snipers and soldiers armed with fixed bayonets." In Episode Twenty Two we look back to Davidde Corran’s ‘Tour of Duty’ which details the unlikeliest of football […]
South Of The River
"South London, to fans who came to the game with the advent of the Premier League, probably seems rather similar to, say, East Anglia – not a hotbed, but with one or two clubs who occasionally spend a season or two among the elite before sinking back to their natural level." It was not always […]
Argentina 0 Colombia 5, 1993 – Carl Worswick
This week, Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller are joined by Carl Worswick to discuss the 1994 World Cup qualifier which saw Argentina host Colombia in Buenos Aires. Heading into the match, qualification for the 94 World Cup was not yet confirmed for either side, however Colombia’s successful campaign so far meant they were only required […]
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 […]
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