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 Seven Contents
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El Dorado
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* The Ball and the Gun, by Carl Worswick—After a political rival was murdered, the Colombian government set up the world's richest league
* The Blond Giant, by Stany Sirutis—Among the influx of foreign players to El Dorado was the Lithuanian goalkeeper Vytausas Krisciunas
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Interview
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* Ivica Osim — The great Bosnian coach reflects on the war, Japan and Alan Mullery's lack of fair play
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The Victorian Age
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* The First Columnist, by Paul Brown—How an early journalist for the Northern Echo helped shape the modern game
* Stiffy the Goalkeeper, by John Harding—Lazy, drunken and corruptible, the first footballing hero of the stage could hardly have been less heroic
* Out with a League Team, by Henry Leach—A journalist, writing in 1900, describes his experiences travelling the country reporting on Notts County
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Theory
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* Don Leo's Odyssey, by Joachim Barbier—From Amsterdam to Madrid to Gaudalajara to Budapest, Leo Beenhakker has never stopped learning
* The English Spaniard, by Philippe Auclair—Roberto Martínez discusses his conception of football and the difficulties of addapting to the dark nights of Lancashire
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The Vanishing
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* The Strange Disappearing of Leslie Goldberg, by Anthony Clavane—How the right back who became Les Gaunt encapsulated the experiences of many 1930s Jewish footballers
* Ten Past Ten and Ten Pastis, by Gunnar Persson—Gunnar Andersson's journey from Marseille legend to homeless alcoholic
* End of the Road, by Richard Winton—Gretna's rise was a romantic fairy tale, their collapse provides grimly real lessons for all of Scottish football
* Safe as Houses, by Paolo Bandini—Espen Baardsen was a Norway international but at 25 he gave up football to work in finance
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Polemics
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* Breaking the Mould, by Zac Lee Rigg—Last year Johnny Saelua became the first transgender person to play in World Cup qualifying
* In Arsene We Trust, by Zach Slaton—However frustrating this season, the numbers suggest Arsenal would be worse off without Arsene Wenger
* Dictionary of Received Ideas, by Brian Phillips—A guide to what pundits really mean when they use certain terms
* Follow the Money, by Elliot Turner—How Nicaragua's national stadium highlights the problems with Fifa's Goal project
* The Third Party, by Sergio Levinsky—A tax avoidance scandal in Argentina could have ramifications across the globe
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Fiction
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* The Limping God, part 2, by David Ashton—His football career ended by injury, John Brodie's life is going nowhere until he is sucked into the world of crime
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Greatest Games
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* Lazio 4-2 Ipswich Town", by Dominic Bliss—Uefa Cup, second round, second leg, Stadio Olimpico, Rome, 7 November 1973
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Seven Bells
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* Fouls and Fisticuffs, by Scott Murray—A selection of unsavoury incidents we're supposed to condemn
