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&quot;That 1997-98 Uefa Cup campaign was the last we saw of the &#39;pure&#39; Ronaldo. Nike&#39;s &#39;R9&#39; 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 back from one serious injury after another, he lost two years of his career to chr...
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Tour of Duty (with By Association)
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For this week’s episode we present the most recent offering from By Association, an award-winning narrative podcast about football, based in Australia.
They took inspiration from Davidde Corran’s article ‘Tour of Duty’, originally published in Issue Three of The Blizzard in December 2011.
For a brand new audio documentary each month, subscribe to By Association on Apple Podcasts or wherever you...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1510332196" data-format="short_date">Nov 10, 2017</span></span>
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The Sweep Of History
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Decade by decade league tables chart the changing tides of footballing success
In Episode Ninety Seven of the Blizzard Podcast we revisit &quot;The Sweep of History&quot; by Richard Jolly, first published in Issue Twenty Three in December 2016.
Read the full article here: www.theblizzard.co.uk/article/sweep-history
Issue Twenty Three, like all issues of the Blizzard, is available for £12 plus postage on ...
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34m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1509729044" data-format="short_date">Nov 03, 2017</span></span>
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Free For All
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Why is US Soccer so reluctant to promote one of the oldest tournaments in the world?
&quot;Such has been the paucity of tournament coverage that for the past two decades, it’s no exaggeration to say that covering both the past and present of the Open Cup has been close to the sole preserve of one man in his free time. &quot;
In Episode Ninety Six of the Blizzard Podcast we look back at &quot;Free for All&quot; by ...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1509120210" data-format="short_date">Oct 27, 2017</span></span>
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In The Shadow Of The Goldfish
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&quot;To suggest that Leeds United have kept their descent into torpor rather quiet would most likely be met with cries of derision.
&quot;Of course all the key features of a very public fall are there. For an abridged version of the last decade, try: goldfish, admin, El-Hadji Diouf. The rest of the seemingly limitless archive of public domain material for the casual haters to quote doesn&#39;t seem worth me...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1507304196" data-format="short_date">Oct 06, 2017</span></span>
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&quot;The first full international match between France and England was played on 15 May 1923 at the Stade Pershing in the Bois de Vincennes in Paris. It was an interesting game, attended by an impressive 30,000 spectators, despite driving rain and hail. France had beaten an England Amateurs team at this same venue in 1921, but a similar result was not expected against the full England side.
&quot;The Fr...
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In Appreciation Of Angelo Di Livio
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&quot;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 his choice.
&quot;Just a year after winning the Coppa Italia, Fiorentina were declared bankrupt. Their miserabl...
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Estadio Azteca
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&quot;There have been 836 finals matches in the history of the World Cup, played from Belo Horizonte to Busan. Only 19 of those games have been at the Azteca, yet that tiny sample has provided the amphitheatre for ‘the Game of the Century’, the greatest team goal in World Cup history, one of the biggest controversies in the history of the tournament and ‘the Goal of the Century’. Freakishly high qua...
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Why Is The World Cup Boring?
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&quot;So at a World Cup, what we get is a series of teams intent on defending playing against opponents who, even if they are minded to attack, lack the slickness of a top club side. The result is stodgy football. The 1998 World Cup didn’t feel that special at the time — it was no better than 1994 and no match for 1982 or 1986 — but it stands now as a beacon, as the last good World Cup. Perhaps the ...
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Location, Location, Location
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&quot;Colchester United, Northampton Town, Stoke City, Swansea City: outsiders have to take a detour to visit the town. If you&#39;re looking for the stadium and come across something interesting, you&#39;ve got lost.
&quot;It seems as if no club in England these days can build a stadium without the muscle of a major supermarket chain who use the emotional clout of football as a Trojan horse to win planning perm...
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Bye Bye Bebe
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“I am going to be a brilliant player,” Bebé said. He wasn’t. To our surprise, given his mediocre showing for the reserves, he made his United debut six days later in a Carling Cup win at Scunthorpe (Ferguson, scouting Champions League opponents Valencia, didn’t see Bebé play then either). It was the first of seven senior appearances. Two even brought goals, albeit in fortunate fashion; a shot t...
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The Unmarked Grave
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&quot;Watson, described by the Scottish Football Association Annual of 1880-81 as “one of the very best backs we have”, represented two of the 19th century’s most prestigious clubs in Queen’s Park and Corinthians, forging a successful career on both sides of the border as he won multiple domestic trophies and attracted widespread admiration for his robust but proficient style of play. Yet until only...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1501857267" data-format="short_date">Aug 04, 2017</span></span>
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Football On TV
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&quot;On 14 April 1937, the BBC studios at Alexandra Palace played host to the first television demonstration of snooker, an exhibition of play by Horace Lindrum and Willie Smith. The programme lasted 10 minutes, whereupon it made way for Daffodils (“a display of various types of daffodils from the Daffodil Show” — Radio Times). Another couple of months down the line, and the BBC were off to Wimbled...
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23m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1500651812" data-format="short_date">Jul 21, 2017</span></span>
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The Race Card
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&quot;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 ban certain speech in football grounds. Is it to make some sort of social statement? Is it simply a ...
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17m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1500040919" data-format="short_date">Jul 14, 2017</span></span>
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A Game Of Three Halves
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&quot;It was at that point that the original referee arrived. According to the Derby Daily Telegraph, Kirkham claimed to have been “misdirected by a ticket collector at Halifax”, resulting in the missed connection. He’d set off from his home in good time, but arrived at Newcastle Road three hours late.
As the teams loitered around the clubhouse at what seemed to be half-time, many in the crowd suspe...
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8m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1499432234" data-format="short_date">Jul 07, 2017</span></span>
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Setting Sun
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“Leyton Orient Football Club is not my life, but it has been the only constant in it. I realise that every major event, every stage, every shifting moment, is connected in some way to this daft, infuriating football team.
“It defined my childhood, inspired my education, gave me my sense of humour, united my family. It has brought some joy, but mostly pain. Yet it has always been a wonderful, ha...
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19m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1498847034" data-format="short_date">Jun 30, 2017</span></span>
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Issue 25 And An Update
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An update on why things have been quiet on the podcast front for the last couple of weeks (aside from a live event and a collaboration with By Association). We&#39;ve relaunched the website, now with everything we&#39;ve ever published available online, for free.
Listen in for more details, including Jonathan Wilson&#39;s editor&#39;s note from Issue Twenty Five (which is out now), or just visit www.theblizzar...
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5m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1497625694" data-format="short_date">Jun 16, 2017</span></span>
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The Silenced Crowd (in Collaboration With By Association)
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“There was no fooling the 18,000 spectators at Old Trafford. “Play up, you rotters!” they screamed. The fix was on. They knew it, as Manchester United went through the motions against Liverpool on 2 April 1915, winning 2-0 in a listless performance.”
In Episode Eighty Two we revisit ‘The Silenced Crowd’ by Richard Fitzpatrick from Issue Ten, which looks at the greatest scandal in British footba...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1496391495" data-format="short_date">Jun 02, 2017</span></span>
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Live in Edinburgh - 2017 (Part Two)
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Despite being on a podcast hiatus while we work on some exciting things behind the scenes we still found time to do a live recording of our Q&amp;A event in Edinburgh last week. This is the second half of that discussion.
Hosted by football writer Daniel Gray, the panel of Jonathan Wilson, Jonathan Northcroft and Jonathan Liew took questions from the audience, and discussed footballing matters of i...
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49m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1496158497" data-format="short_date">May 30, 2017</span></span>
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Live in Edinburgh - 2017
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Despite being on a podcast hiatus while we work on some exciting things behind the scenes we still found time to do a live recording of our Q&amp;A event in Edinburgh last week. This is the first half of that discussion.
Hosted by football writer Daniel Gray, the panel of Jonathan Wilson, Jonathan Northcroft and Jonathan Liew took questions from the audience, and discussed footballing matters of im...
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51m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1496158314" data-format="short_date">May 30, 2017</span></span>
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The Other Cup
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Now glance at the name “Europa League”. What information does it convey? It’s a league for… the abstract concept of Europe? For women who ride off on divine white bulls? Uefa can’t call the competition what it is, since “The Second-Tier Distribution of Teams as Apportioned by Mathematical Coefficients Cup” lacks a certain Heineken Factor.&quot;
Episode Eighty of the Blizzard Podcast, and Brian Phill...
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12m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1494599934" data-format="short_date">May 12, 2017</span></span>
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Live in Dublin #4 (Second Half)
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The second half of our Q&amp;A event at Dublin’s Sugar Club held on Monday 24th April. The panel of Jonathan Wilson, Philippe Auclair and Iain Macintosh, hosted by Eoin McDevitt, take in a range of topics, from Liverpool’s underperformance against bottom half teams to big Sam’s tactics, whether you’d like to be too warm or too cold, and a good amount of Jose/Pep chat.
There’s some time spent wonder...
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54m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1493138031" data-format="short_date">Apr 25, 2017</span></span>
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54m
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Live in Dublin #4 (First Half)
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The first half of our Q&amp;A event at Dublin’s Sugar Club held on Monday 24th April. The panel of Jonathan Wilson, Philippe Auclair and Iain Macintosh, hosted by Eoin McDevitt, take in a range of topics including the weekend’s Clasico between Real Madrid and Barca, along with a hefty amount of Messi/Ronaldo chat.
There’s talk on dynastic teams, whether football is still fun, the benefits of being ...
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44 Days, Later
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&quot;Why Leeds? Well, apart from a rumoured offer from Kuwait, they were the only club that came in for him. Even then, Stein wasn’t the first choice to replace Jimmy Armfield at Elland Road. He wasn’t even second choice. Cussins initially offered the job to Lawrie McMenemy and his suggestion of John Giles was over-ruled by the Leeds board.&quot;
Episode Seventy Eight of the Blizzard Podcast looks back ...
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The Dawson&#39;s Creek Principle
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&quot;Now that I’m fully aware of this principle, I look for its application whenever I’m watching football. Whenever a player scores a tremendous goal, I now count back two or three passes in the move to find out who might have been covertly responsible. It’s an approach that I wouldn’t have taken, had it not been for watching Dawson’s Creek; and so if any of you are willing to have a similar
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1491579636" data-format="short_date">Apr 07, 2017</span></span>
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Where Now For Iceland?
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&quot;In some ways Iceland has been lucky. Had the country’s banks collapsed a few years earlier than they did in 2008, there would not have been the same level of investment in football and none of this would have been possible. But by then the pitches were already built, the indoor complexes well established, the coaches already at work. There is even an argument that the crash may have helped the...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1490974253" data-format="short_date">Mar 31, 2017</span></span>
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Orban Planning
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&quot;Only a month before the 8-1 defeat in Amsterdam, the government had announced its plan to host European Championship games in 2020... News of the grand seven-year plan was all over the state media for days. As in the Communist era, irreverent political jokes abounded: what’s the difference between Orbán and Platini? One’s an autocratic, ageing, overweight midfielder and the other one was Europ...
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Senior Citizen
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&quot;At that point the Italian Marco Barlotta, 42, was named as the oldest player still in action. Robert had already turned 48 at that point. Determined to see his own name among the world’s tallest and shortest men, the biggest omelette and the longest beard, he requested his registration from the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF)and began the quest to gain recognition as the sport’s eldest of...
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Identity Crisis
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&quot;But while club identity clings on bravely in this fast-shifting world, rooted in local history and socio-politics as much as what’s happened on the pitch, team identity is at worst a myth; at best a luxury.&quot;
In episode Seventy Three we look at &quot;Identity Crisis&quot; by Gary Hartley, from the upcoming Issue Twenty Four. For the fans of consistently competent teams that never win anything, perhaps as...
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A Sense Of Responsibility
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&quot;There is a need, now more than ever, for a sense of responsibility. that’s true for readers and commenters, but it’s especially true for writers and editors. It matters less in football coverage than elsewhere, but standards are important whatever the field. Truth has never been a virtue in such need of being upheld.&quot;
In episode Seventy Two of the Blizzard Podcast we look ahead to the upcoming...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1487953278" data-format="short_date">Feb 24, 2017</span></span>
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Slaggy Island
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&quot;South Bank lies three miles east of Middlesbrough. Locally they call it Slaggy Island in honour of the ring of spoil heaps that once cut it off from the outside world. It’s not as glamorous as that nickname makes it sound. South Bank was the home of the Smith’s Dock shipyard, of Bolckow Vaughan and Dorman Long steelworks, clusters of iron foundries, warrens of brickyards. Blast furnaces, smelt...
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The Centre-back And The Kitchen Knife
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&quot;I think I was looking for something to replace the adrenaline rush, the buzz you get, that feeling of really being alive. You get used to performing in front of thousands every week and when that’s gone then suddenly there’s a huge mental void which becomes almost impossible to fill. At least for me. I just sat at home or did what I wanted to do, go on holiday, whatever. It became a vicious ci...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1486745592" data-format="short_date">Feb 10, 2017</span></span>
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But You Can&#39;t Change..
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&quot;You are among the football hacks summoned to Downing Street by Margaret Thatcher. She has the eyes of a tawny owl and clearly terrifies her ministers, who dance attendance. She goes around the table, asking each visitor what they would do to solve football hooliganism. You might as well quote Afghani poetry, because her mind is made up before anyone opens their mouth. In her world, football fa...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1486142250" data-format="short_date">Feb 03, 2017</span></span>
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Meanwhile Back In Sunderland
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&quot;Back home, the locals closed up their shops and descended upon those neighbours who were fortunate enough to own colour televisions. Local boys, accompanied by a dog with a rosette pinned to its collar, had a kickabout in a side street within a few yards of Roker Park and large groups began clustering around Vision Hire on Fawcett Street for an impromptu street party. When the game kicked off ...
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14m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1485534622" data-format="short_date">Jan 27, 2017</span></span>
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14m
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The Dictionary Of Received Ideas
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&quot;JOHN TERRY (Updated, 2012 edition) Refer to his “strong personality” and “bravery”.
LA MASIA The incubator of Spain’s golden age. Point out that it means “the farmhouse”.
LEADS 2-0 is the most dangerous.
LEFT FOOT The only human extremity capable of becoming &quot;cultured”.
LITERALLY Figuratively.&quot;
Thanks to Brian Phillips and Episode Sixty Seven of the Blizzard Podcast, you too can learn to speak...
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15m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1484930404" data-format="short_date">Jan 20, 2017</span></span>
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15m
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Care for the Community
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&quot;But what if football rethought its relationship with TV? What if you could come up with a plan that would, at once, revitalise local support, help smaller clubs market themselves better, boost attendances and, yes, increase the size of the pie for everyone?
In Episode Sixty Six of the Blizzard Podcast, we revisit Gabriele Marcotti&#39;s thought experiment &#39;Care for the Community&#39; from Issue Six, f...
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20m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1484324201" data-format="short_date">Jan 13, 2017</span></span>
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20m
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Chaos Theory
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&quot;We tend to trace the route of a goal back to the opening of the move – or at most, the breakdown of the previous one – when in truth its foundations stretch back to kick-off and the first decisions made by every player on the pitch. The reason Götze scored that goal was no more because of Schürrle’s trickery or Götze’s skill, as it was an Argentinian player’s decision to make a back-pass rathe...
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18m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1483720270" data-format="short_date">Jan 06, 2017</span></span>
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Wenger, L&#39;Auteur
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&quot;Yet there is maybe another reason that Wenger’s own cinematic narrative increasingly resembles a hubristic Greek tragedy rather than a story of redemption. Just as Sonny Corleone’s death scene in The Godfather no longer shocks, the methods which gave Wenger such an edge in the mid-90s are no longer so unique. Every team now applies science to their preparation; many others possess youth system...
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16m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1482487726" data-format="short_date">Dec 23, 2016</span></span>
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The Death Of Mystery
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&quot;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 European Cup final.”
In Episode Sixty Three we revisit ‘The Death of Myster...
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20m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1481907757" data-format="short_date">Dec 16, 2016</span></span>
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Decline And Fall
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&quot;Created in the early 1960s by the then Private Eye editor Richard Ingrams and the cartoonist Barry Fantoni and cheered on by Peter Cook (who funded the satirical magazine in its early days and wrote editorials as elusive proprietor Lord Gnome), Knee exemplified the Eye’s eccentric, idiosyncratic view of British sport. &quot;
In Episode Sixty Two we feature &#39;Decline and Fall&#39; by Paul Simpson, which ...
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17m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1481302370" data-format="short_date">Dec 09, 2016</span></span>
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Drowning In A Sea Of Irrelevance
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&quot;There was a time when loudmouth megalomaniacs of questionable political beliefs were football managers and quietly eloquent, slightly bland men who avoided giving offence were politicians. With Gareth Southgate, at the time of writing, seemingly about to be appointed England manager and Donald Trump president-elect of the USA, it&#39;s hard not to think that at some point we got that a the wrong w...
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9m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1480681169" data-format="short_date">Dec 02, 2016</span></span>
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Before The Shopping Centre
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“Out of seeming nothing;
Out of shadow and gloom;
Out of a hollowed vacuum
Came something to keep us in tune.
Something to interest and please us;
Something we call our own;
Something we almost worship;
Loving beyond control.
Boys by practice and training;
Diligently keeping fit;
Men by planning and scheming
Built it bit by bit.
Loyally working together;
Faithful to their scheme;
Out of little ...
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25m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1479482180" data-format="short_date">Nov 18, 2016</span></span>
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The Waiting Game
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“In the place of the regular pressure to perform is the more diffuse but arguably more terrifying prospect of having to come on, at a moment’s notice, with the certain knowledge that your teammates, your manager and your fans are all thinking, “Oh, no.”&quot;
In Episode Fifty Nine of the Blizzard Podcast we look back on &#39;The Waiting Game&#39; by Andi Thomas from Issue Eleven, first published back in Dec...
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14m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1478883705" data-format="short_date">Nov 11, 2016</span></span>
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Accidental Hero
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“It was a relief to see the team sheet and to find out that Beardsley was not there,” said Lenny Lawrence, the Charlton manager, “Instead they started with somebody we didn’t know. The relief turned very quickly into sheer horror. They set Ronnie on us and he tormented us that day.”
In Episode Fifty Eight of the Blizzard Podcast we revisit &#39;Accidental Hero&#39; by Shaul Adar from Issue Eighteen, fi...
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21m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1478273803" data-format="short_date">Nov 04, 2016</span></span>
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21m
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&quot;In the past, the football of results tended to refer to a physical or cynical style but the recent success of Spain awoke a new realisation: technically excellent football could be dull. In decades to come, as the specifics of their triumphs fade into the yellowed pages of history, how will Spain’s era of tiki-taka dominance be remembered?&quot;
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&quot;Hysen, Careca, Southall, Van Basten, Lentini... Even football’s most diligent historians might find it difficult to fathom how these 13 seconds of action were possible. How were these players on the same pitch at the same time?
&quot;This was no charity match, nor a friendly played for dubious benefits in a country with a questionable human rights record.&quot;
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&quot;São Tomé eventually lost their Fifa vote and were dropped from the rankings... signs of international activity remain an apparition as Brazilian journalist Rafael Maranhão found on visiting São Tomé. Few journalists make the lengthy trip. Surprised at this interloper, the new FSF board told Maranhão that a friendly with Equatorial Guinea was scheduled for July 2011. That was a surprise to the ...
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&quot;Had Scotland contrived to bring home the World Cup, then perhaps the nationalist cause would have gathered even greater momentum. As it was, enthusiasm melted away like snow in the summer sunshine. When the government held a referendum on Scottish devolution the following March, only one in three people voted for it.&quot;
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&quot;Towards the end of the game I began to wonder how many of the devoted fans we had met would be able to name the Earthquake’s starting XI. At times the Ultras reminded me of Orsino from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, more in love with the idea of being in love than with the object of his desire.&quot;
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The second half of the Blizzard&#39;s live Q&amp;A event held at the National Football Museum as part of the Manchester Football Writing Festival on Thursday 1st September. Featuring a panel of Jonathan Wilson, Jack Pitt-Brooke and Philippe Auclair, hosted by Rory Smith.
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