On this edition of Greatest Games, Gary Al-Smith is on the pod to remember a dramatic Afcon semi-final which took place six years ago on Friday alongside Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller. Tournament hosts, Equatorial Guinea, meet a Ghana side managed by Avram Grant and looking in great stead to win the Cup of Nations. […]
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River Plate P-P Boca Juniors, 2018 – Rory Smith
Rory Smith joins Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller on this week’s Greatest Games to reflect on one of football’s most highly-anticipated fixtures to have never even happened – the postponed 2018 Copa Libertadores final second-leg between River Plate and Boca Juniors. A rousing 2-2 draw at La Bombonera had perfectly set-up a winner-takes-all Copa Libertadores […]
Romania 3 Argentina 2, 1994 – Rory Smith
Live In Manchester (Jose Mourinho edition)
The first half of our live event in Manchester on Thursday 30th August. Yes, we know the sound quality isn’t the greatest throughout, and we apologise, but would like to bring you at least some of the evening’s discussion for those who couldn’t make it along. The panel, hosted by Rory Smith, featured Jonathans Wilson […]
The Blizzard Live At The National Football Museum (1st Half)
The first half of the Blizzard’s live Q&A event held at the National Football Museum as part of the Manchester Football Writing Festival on Thursday 1st September. Featuring a panel of Jonathan Wilson, Jack Pitt-Brooke and Philippe Auclair, hosted by Rory Smith. The panel took questions from the audience and Twitter on a range of […]
Football On TV
"On 14 April 1937, the BBC studios at Alexandra Palace played host to the first television demonstration of snooker, an exhibition of play by Horace Lindrum and Willie Smith. The programme lasted 10 minutes, whereupon it made way for Daffodils (“a display of various types of daffodils from the Daffodil Show” — Radio Times). Another […]
The Blizzard Live At The National Football Museum (2nd Half)
The second half of the Blizzard’s live Q&A event held at the National Football Museum as part of the Manchester Football Writing Festival on Thursday 1st September. Featuring a panel of Jonathan Wilson, Jack Pitt-Brooke and Philippe Auclair, hosted by Rory Smith. The panel took questions from the audience and Twitter on a range of […]
The Blizzard Live! An Evening Of Football Chat
The Blizzard is returning for another night of football debate and Q&A – live from wherever you fancy – staying socially distanced and digitally adept on a Zoom webinar. Raising money for two London homeless charities, via the Tom Holland Benefit Year 2021. Joining editor Jonathan Wilson on the panel: Miguel Delaney (The Independent) Rory Smith […]
Slaggy Island
"South Bank lies three miles east of Middlesbrough. Locally they call it Slaggy Island in honour of the ring of spoil heaps that once cut it off from the outside world. It’s not as glamorous as that nickname makes it sound. South Bank was the home of the Smith’s Dock shipyard, of Bolckow Vaughan and […]