The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Fourteen

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The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Fourteen

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 Fourteen

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World Cup Review
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* Cassiano Gobbet, The End of the Affair - Brazilâ€™s 7-1 semi-final defeat will reverberate through history: what went wrong?
* Ben Lyttleton, The Inevitable Conclusion - Another World Cup exit on penalties: why canâ€™t the Dutch win shoot-outs?
* Various, Notes from a Tournament - It wasnâ€™t all about the football. Memories of the 2014 World Cup.
* Ryu Voelkel, A selection of the best images from the 2014 World Cup

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Past Glories
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* Elko Born, The Velvet Revolution - Johan Cruyff, Ajax and the struggle for the soul of Dutch football
* Dan Nolan, OrbÃ¡n Planning - The Hungarian prime ministerâ€™s attempts to restore the national team to glory
* Rob Smyth, Lars Eriksen, Mike Gibbons, The End of the Affair - How Spain and a misplaced backpass halted Denmarkâ€™s glorious 1986 World Cup campaign

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The Misfits
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* Richard Jolly, Bye-bye BebÃ© - The strange Manchester United career of the Portuguese striker
* Luke Alfred, Best in Show - While most fans were focused on the 1974 World Cup, George Best was playing in South Africa
* Joachim Barbier, The Still Point - Can a player like Javier Pastore make it at a club like PSG?

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The Revolutionaries
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* Alex Footman, $10 Per Day - Aid poverty and political turmoil, football goes on in Afghanistan
* John Harding, Footballâ€™s First Millionaire - How Boltonâ€™s Jack Slater smashed class barriers to make his fortune
* Pedar Foss, The Rise and Fall of Castel Rigone - The entrepreneur, the village team and the experiment in humanistic capitalism
* Gunnar Persson, A Passage to Indiana - The Swedish great Murren Carlssonâ€™s doomed attempt to make it in the USA
* Philippe Auclair, The Second Birth of French Football - Michel Hidalgo survived kidnapping to lead France to the 1978 World Cup

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Fiction
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* Iain Macintosh, Quantum of Bobby - Spinning through time and space, Bobby Manager finds himself in Escape to Victory

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Greatest Games
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* Michael Yokhin, Russia 1 Ukraine 1 - Euro 2000 qualifier, Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, 9 October 1999

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Eight Bells
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* Jack Lang, Brazilian Courtroom Dramas - A selection of controversies in the Brazilian game that were settled off the pitch

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	The Blizzard Media Ltd
Manufacturer	The Blizzard Media Ltd
PublicationDate	2014-09-16
Publisher	The Blizzard Media Ltd
ReleaseDate	2014-09-16
Studio	The Blizzard Media Ltd

The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Fourteen

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