This week on Greatest Games, Brian Homewood joins Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller to discuss the 1981 Uefa Cup Winners’ Cup quarter-final first-leg between West Ham United and Dinamo Tbilisi. So to the Boleyn Ground for this one, where the ardent West Ham crowd – then used to cruising second division and on the verge […]
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For the Want of a Nail, Jim Keoghan
What if Everton had followed up initial interest in Ian Rush in 1980? “And it’s played across for Rush… that’s another one! And that will make it safe for Liverpool.” Brian Moore’s words cemented what those watching had felt for some time, that the 1986 FA Cup was Anfield-bound. Outplayed by Everton and 1-0 down […]
44 Days, Later – The Blizzard Podcast Episode Seventy Eight
Why Jock Stein lasted no longer than Brian Clough at Elland Road
The Sacred Eyeball, Scott Oliver
The following article first appeared in Issue 27, released in December 2017. Fans are vital to the modern game but tribalism too often means they fail fully to realise their power The signs are reasonably unambiguous: “MODERN FOOTBALL IS RUBBISH”. Thumbing through an increasingly thick catalogue of examples, past Manchester City’s boutique fan-experience innovation, the Tunnel […]
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The Other Cup – The Blizzard Podcast Episode Eighty
How do you solve a problem like the Europa League?