The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Twenty
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The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Twenty
The Blizzard is a quarterly football publication, put together by a cooperative of journalists and authors, its main aim to provide a platform for top-class writers from across the globe to enjoy the space and the freedom to write what they like about the football stories that matter to them.
Issue Twenty contains 21 articles in 10 different sections:
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Experience
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* Fear and Loneliness in Recife, by James Young - Life, love and the return of Santa Cruz from the fourth flight
* Peace Ball, by Nicholas Hogg - Travelling the world with a Japanese charity, using football to bring goodwill
* Senior Citizen, by Dan Edwards - The 54-year-old Robert Carmona on being the oldest footballer in the world
* An Australia Swears at Selhurst, by Jarrod Kimber - The cricket writer goes to a Premier League football match for the first time
* Square Posts, by Robin Bairner - The Hampden Park goal-frames have pride of place in the St Etienne club museum
* Fading Embers, by Jake Walerius - With most of MLS booming, what has gone wrong for Chicago Fire?
* Inca Trail, by Joseph Marshall - A trip across the Andes and down the Amazon for a drab draw
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Interview
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* Total Recall, by Lukas Vrablik - Barry Hulshoff on Rinus Michels and the tactical approach that underpinned Ajax
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Impression: Zenit
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* Before They Were Rich, by Igor Rabiner - The chaos and occasional glory of Zenit St Petersburg’s pre-Gazprom past
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Scandal
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* Crime and Punishment? by James Corbett - The political ramifications of the Fenerbahce match-fixing case
* Man Over, by Sergio Levinsky - A farcical election and AFAs struggles to move on after the death of Julio Grondona
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Photo Essay
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* A River Runs Through It, by Stephen Glennon - Football and the awkward relationship of Moldova and Transnistria
* Photo Essay, by Chiara Dazi - Football and the awkward relationship of Moldova and Transnistria
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Odd Games
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* Shamrock Rovers v Brazil, by Nick Miller - At the height of the Troubles, a united Ireland side took on the world champions and nearly won
* Serie A v the Football League, by Tom Collomosse - Matthaus v McMahon, Van Basten v Wright, Aldair v Rush
* Dinamo Moscow v Arsenal, by Jon Spurling - In 1954 Arsenal travelled to the USSR. It proved a chastening experience
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The Art of Football
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* Behind the Scenes at the Red Lion, by Alex Stewart - The playwright Patrick Marber discusses his football, drama and his football drama
* The Second Game, by Mircea Raianu - The Romanian New Wave director Corneliu Porumboiu discusses his film on the 1988 Bucharest derby
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Greatest Games
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* Motherwell 4 Dundee United 3 (aet), by Paul Macdonald - Scottish Cup final, Hampden Park, Glasgow, 18 May 1991
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Fiction
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* Bobby Manager, by Iain Macintosh - It is 2030. Can Bobby help England win the World Cup at last?
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Eight Bells
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* Zeman's Prodigies, by Michael Yokhin - A selection of players who were given their starts by the idiosyncratic Czech