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The Pub
The Blizzard was born in a pub, Fitzgeralds on Green Terrace to be precise, the night in 2010 that Sunderland beat Bolton 4-0.
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Frustration
I’d been frustrated for some time by the constraints of the mainstream media and, in various press-rooms and bars across the world, I’d come to realise I wasn’t the only one who felt journalism as a whole was missing something.
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Theories
As I floated thoughts and theories to those around the table in Fitzys, I became aware there were other writers so keen to break the shackles of Search Engine Optimisation that they were prepared to write for a share of potential profit, that the joy of writing what they wanted and felt was important outweighed the desire to be paid.
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The Result
The result, about a year later, is The Blizzard.
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