The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Seventeen

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The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Seventeen

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 Seventeen contains 19 articles in 8 different sections:

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Beyond the Game
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* The Player of the People, by Igor Rabiner - The death of Igor Cherenkov last year prompted an astonishing outpouring of grief from Spartak fans
* The Man who Sacked Himself, Philippe Auclair - Gabriel Hanot was a player, a coach, a journalist and a pioneer who remains oddly neglected in France
* Looking Forward, by Brian Oliver - How the former Chelsea defender John Dempsey left football behind to work in a care home
* The Complicated Symbol, by Shaul Adar - Bnei Sakhnin's journey to establish themselves as an Arab team in Israel's top flight
* Namesakes, by James Corbett - Everton have had two Alex Youngs: one's the subject of a Ken Loach film, the other killed his brother
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Interview
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Paul Breitner, by Miguel Delaney - How a Bayern Munich defeat paved the way for West Germany's 1974 World Cup triumph
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Belfast
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* A Patchwork City, by Lefkos Kyriacou - Mapping the fan-bases of the major club's in Northern Ireland's capital
* Requiem for a Stand, by Keith Bailie - A history in seven key moments of the short life of the Kop at Windsor Park
* Before the Shopping Centre, by Conor Heffernan - How crowd violence brought an end to the existence of Belfast Celtic
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Theory
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* The Man who Built White Ships, by Alex Holiga - Stanko Poklepovic, the oldest coach in Europe, and the importance of spiral impostations
* The Whisky Option, by Simon Curtis - Malcolm Allison's time at Sporting was brief but fans remember him fondly
* Messi and the Machine, by Richard Fitzpatrick - Could playing video games be shaping the present generation of footballers?
* Not at All Costs, by George Caulkin - Paul Tisdale has not only revolutionised how Exeter City play, but how they think
* Wrestling with the All-Blacks, by Charlie Eccleshare - How Declan Edge is trying to make New Zealand take football seriously
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Polemic
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* Against Sanitised Football, by Alexander Shea - Can fans fight back against clubs who seek to ignore their history for bland branding?
* The Trials of Baghdad Bob, by Paul Brown - Can Roberto Martinez restore his reputation after a season of wilful blinkeredness?
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Fiction
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* The Tackle, by David Ashton - John Brodie, the former winger turned detective, returns to hunt down some stolen medals
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Greatest Games
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* Scotland 3 England 1, by Paul Brown - Home International, Hampden Park, Glasgow, 17 April 1937
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* Eight Bells
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* Unexpected Relegations, by Michael Yokhin - A selection of giants who have unexpectedly lost their place in the top tier
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Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Blizzard Media Ltd
Manufacturer	Blizzard Media Ltd
NumberOfPages	227
PublicationDate	2015-06-10
Publisher	Blizzard Media Ltd
ReleaseDate	2015-06-10
Studio	Blizzard Media Ltd

The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Seventeen

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