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 Twenty Three contains 19 articles in 6 different sections:
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The Outsiders
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The Exile, by Gunnar Persson - Forced to flee Hungary by anti-Semitism, the forward Kalman Konrad made a new life in Sweden
Standing Out From the Crowd, by Dan Edwards - Marcelo Stones explains how he led an alternative fan movement at Racing
Decline and Fall, by Paul Simpson - The end of Ron Knee, Private Eye and their relationship with football
The Wrong End of the Telescope, by Joe Devine - David Icke on the role of football as an opiate to suppress the masses
The Short Unhappy Life of Dinorah De Assis, by James Young - Love, betrayal, murder and the end of a glorious career
Grassroots Games, by George Osborn - Fifa and ProEvo are more realistic than ever, but there is still a place for simple playable games
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Tangled Webs
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Would the Real CSKA Please Stand Up?, by Jack Robinson - When CSKA Sofia folded, two different entities rose up in their place. Who are the true heirs?
Stars and Shadows, by Ged Naughton - Liberia, child soldiers, truth, false hope and a complicated charity tour
FAT Shaming, by John Duerden - The complicated machinations that followed the downfall of Worawi Makudi
Odd Man Out, by Lukas Vrablik - Football has thrived in the other former Yugoslav republics, so what’s wrong with Macedonia?
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Photo Essay
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The Russian Lower Leagues, by Sergei Novikov - The journey of one photographer through the backwaters of the Russian game
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The Past
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The Eternal Captain, by Samindra Kunti - A previously unpublished interview with Carlos Alberto, who died in October
The Sadness of the Master Builder, by Alexander Jackson - Death, the War and the Bradford Park Avenue manager Tom Maley
Crime of Passion, by Paul Brown - A France international, a champion cyclist, a gun and a deadly affair
Big Ron, by Rob Smyth - Ron Atkinson on tactics, tempo, television and Roland Nilsson
The Sweep of History, by Richard Jolly - Decade by decade league tables chart the changing tides of footballing success
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Fiction
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The Eternal Derby, by Scott Oliver - It is Boca v River in the Libertadores final, and there will not be a penalty shoot-out.
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Eight Bells
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Nutmegs, by Rupert Fryer - A selection of nutmegs that for reasons of context or aesthetics had special significance
Issue Twenty Three contains 19 articles in 6 different sections:
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The Outsiders
----------------
The Exile, by Gunnar Persson - Forced to flee Hungary by anti-Semitism, the forward Kalman Konrad made a new life in Sweden
Standing Out From the Crowd, by Dan Edwards - Marcelo Stones explains how he led an alternative fan movement at Racing
Decline and Fall, by Paul Simpson - The end of Ron Knee, Private Eye and their relationship with football
The Wrong End of the Telescope, by Joe Devine - David Icke on the role of football as an opiate to suppress the masses
The Short Unhappy Life of Dinorah De Assis, by James Young - Love, betrayal, murder and the end of a glorious career
Grassroots Games, by George Osborn - Fifa and ProEvo are more realistic than ever, but there is still a place for simple playable games
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Tangled Webs
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Would the Real CSKA Please Stand Up?, by Jack Robinson - When CSKA Sofia folded, two different entities rose up in their place. Who are the true heirs?
Stars and Shadows, by Ged Naughton - Liberia, child soldiers, truth, false hope and a complicated charity tour
FAT Shaming, by John Duerden - The complicated machinations that followed the downfall of Worawi Makudi
Odd Man Out, by Lukas Vrablik - Football has thrived in the other former Yugoslav republics, so what’s wrong with Macedonia?
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Photo Essay
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The Russian Lower Leagues, by Sergei Novikov - The journey of one photographer through the backwaters of the Russian game
----------------
The Past
----------------
The Eternal Captain, by Samindra Kunti - A previously unpublished interview with Carlos Alberto, who died in October
The Sadness of the Master Builder, by Alexander Jackson - Death, the War and the Bradford Park Avenue manager Tom Maley
Crime of Passion, by Paul Brown - A France international, a champion cyclist, a gun and a deadly affair
Big Ron, by Rob Smyth - Ron Atkinson on tactics, tempo, television and Roland Nilsson
The Sweep of History, by Richard Jolly - Decade by decade league tables chart the changing tides of footballing success
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Fiction
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The Eternal Derby, by Scott Oliver - It is Boca v River in the Libertadores final, and there will not be a penalty shoot-out.
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Eight Bells
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Nutmegs, by Rupert Fryer - A selection of nutmegs that for reasons of context or aesthetics had special significance
