The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue TwelveJonathan Wilson, Philippe Auclair, Rob Smyth, Sid Lowe, Iain Macintosh, James Montague, Graham Hunter, Miguel Delaney, Tim Vickery, Sergio Levinsky Blizzard Media Ltd, 3. 3. 2014. - 190 страница 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.
---------------- The Rivals ---------------- * Miguel Delaney, Gamechanger - Johan Cruyff on his role in creating the style of Barcelona and modern football * Graham Hunter, An Honourable Man - How Vicente del Bosque overcame rejection by Real Madrid to lead Spain to glory A Game of Chess --------------------------- * Scott Oliver, Play Jazz, not Chess - Reflections on football, order and the imagination, and the need for improvisation Theory ------------ * Sergio Levinsky, The Cult of the Pibe - Argentina’s love affair with scruffy urchins with feet of gold Defenders of the Faith ------------------------------ * James Montague, Jerusalem Syndrome - The mysterious disappearance of Guma Aguiar, the saviour of Beitar Jerusalem * Brian Homewood, Identity Crisis - Unpicking the convoluted threads of Mexico’s franchise system * Bartosz Nowicki, Dream Fulfilled - Relief and glee as Cardiff City finally found their way into the Premier League Against the Odds -------------------------- * Robin Bairner, Sleeping Giant - In 1982, Jean-Pierre Adams was given anaesthetic before knee surgery. He hasn’t woken up. * Richard Jolly, And Not to Yield - Only one sportsman can match Ryan Giggs for longevity: the New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter * Javier Sauras and Felix Lill, The Street Dogs of Manila - The Philippines are rising through the rankings, but are they Filipino enough * Matthew Campelli, Second City Syndrome - Why has Birmingham struggled for football success for 30 years? --------------- Polemics --------------- * Tim Vickery, Alternate Title - The lessons sports journalists can draw from the Monkees Fiction --------------- Greatest Games ------------------------- Eight Bells ----------------- |