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.

Contents of Issue Twelve

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The Rivals

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* Sid Lowe, Power Play - Carles Rexach and Jorge Valdano discuss the changing nature of the Real Madrid-Barcelona rivalry

* Miguel Delaney, Gamechanger - Johan Cruyff on his role in creating the style of Barcelona and modern football

* Graham Hunter, An Honourable Man - How Vicente del Bosque overcame rejection by Real Madrid to lead Spain to glory
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A Game of Chess

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* Philippe Auclair, Beyond the System - Could the lessons of chess show football the way to an exciting new future?   

* Scott Oliver, Play Jazz, not Chess - Reflections on football, order and the imagination, and the need for improvisation
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Theory

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* Steve Menary, Maximum Opportunity - Was Charles Hughes a long-ball zealot, or pragmatist reacting to necessity?

* Sergio Levinsky, The Cult of the Pibe - Argentina’s love affair with scruffy urchins with feet of gold
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Defenders of the Faith

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* Paul Brown, The Birth of the Fan - Why Victorians flocked to watch 22 men kicking a pig’s bladder about

* James Montague, Jerusalem Syndrome - The mysterious disappearance of Guma Aguiar, the saviour of Beitar Jerusalem

* Brian Homewood, Identity Crisis - Unpicking the convoluted threads of Mexico’s franchise system

* Bartosz Nowicki, Dream Fulfilled - Relief and glee as Cardiff City finally found their way into the Premier League 
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Against the Odds

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* Robin Bairner, Sleeping Giant - In 1982, Jean-Pierre Adams was given anaesthetic before knee surgery. He hasn’t woken up. 

* Richard Jolly, And Not to Yield - Only one sportsman can match Ryan Giggs for longevity: the New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter

* Javier Sauras and Felix Lill, The Street Dogs of Manila - The Philippines are rising through the rankings, but are they Filipino enough

* Matthew Campelli, Second City Syndrome - Why has Birmingham struggled for football success for 30 years?

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Polemics

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* Alex Keble, Artist or Machine? - An investigation into the paradoxical relationship between sport and creativity

* Tim Vickery, Alternate Title - The lessons sports journalists can draw from the Monkees
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Fiction

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* Iain Macintosh, The Quantum of Bobby - After his exile in Qatar, Bobby Manager returns to English football. Or does he…?
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Greatest Games

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* Rob Smyth, England 1 West Germany 1* - World Cup semi-final, 4 July 1990, Stadio delle Alpi, Turin
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Eight Bells

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* Michael Yokhin, Non-identical twins - A selection of twins who looked the same but played very differently