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The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Nine

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 Nine contains 21 articles in 11 different sections:

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Iran

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* The Vacant Lot, by Gwendolyn Oxenham — The search for a kickabout in Iran is complicated by religion and gender politics

* Conflict Management, by Noah Davis — Dan Gaspar is a key part of Iran's qualifying campaign for Brazil 2014 despite holding a US passport

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Interview

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* Zbigniew Boniek, by Maciej Iwanski — The Polish great discusses Juventus, the modern game and his friendship with Michel Platini

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For the Good of the Game

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* The Only Way is Ethics, by Philippe Auclair- Fifa's super-cop Michael J Garcia explains his mission to wash the corruption out of football

* Power Play, by James Corbett — The Asian Football Confederation's presidential elections highlight football's murky governance

* Genesis, by Davidde Corran — How a tournament in China in 1988 changed women's football forever

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Theory

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* The Weight of the Armband, by Joel Richards — The Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella explains why he made Lionel Messi national captain

* Pep's Four Golden Rules, by Simon Kuper — How Guardiola made Barcelona the masters of the pressing game

* Taking the Initiative, by Nick Ames — Andy Roxburgh, the former Uefa technical director, on how football tactics are changing

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The North

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* City and the City, by David Conn — What does Sheikh Mansour's investment mean for the city of Manchester?

* Meanwhile Back in Sunderland, by Jon Spurling — How a Tyne Tees documentary on Cup final day 1973 captured the spirit of the town

* That Grandish Pile of Swank, by Anthony Clavane — Tracing Leeds United's place in the tradition of Northern Realism

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Lev Yashin

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* The Jersey That Wasn't Black, by Igor Rabiner — Lev Yashin's widow and Eusébio remember the great Soviet goalkeeper

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Polemics

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* Partisans and Purists, by Charlie Robinson — Do fans experience football differently to those who watch without a vested interest?

* The Lager of Life, by Tim Vickery — Football is haunted by violence, but can it be blamed for it?

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Past Glories

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* The Nearly Men, by Ian Hawkey — Zimbabwe's nostalgia for the Dream Team of Bruce Grobbelaar and the Ndlovu brothers

* The Grand Griguol, by Dan Colasimone — How El Viejo defied accusations of boringness to inspire the golden age of Ferro Carril Oeste

* A Dream Denied, by Antonis Oikonomidis — But for the politics of Greek football, Ferenc Puskás might have ended up in Athens not Madrid

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Fiction

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* In Search of Punditaria, by Scott Oliver — An anthropologist heads into the jungle to discover a society founded by stranded football journalists

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Greatest Games

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* Bari 4 Internazionale 1, Rory Smith — Serie A, Stadio San Nicola, Bari, 6 January 1996

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Eight Bells

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 194
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781908940100
  • Genres
  • football, sports
  • Release date
  • 2013