"By the ashtray lay a single sheet of paper and an unopened bottle of Scotch. Joao Rocha turning to his interlocutor without as much as a smile, said ‘I’m afraid it’s one or the other, Malcolm’. His time leading Portugal’s famous green and white hoops, brief and glamourously successful, was over in one simple, dramatic […]
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Blizzard-41 Sampler
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Fifth Year Collection
All four hard copy issues from The Blizzard’s fifth year (Issues Seventeen to Twenty inclusive) in one bundle.
Issue Forty One
Introduction Issue 41: Editor’s Note – Jonathan Wilson Jonathan Wilson’s Editor’s Note from Issue Forty One Ownership The President Ultra – Aleks Eror Aleksandar Vučić and the uneasy relationship between football and politics in Serbia Out of the Frying Pan – Heather McKinlay How escaping Roland Duchâtelet took Charlton to the edge of extinction The Forgotten Founder – Reiss […]
Squall Issue 1 8mb
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Football on TV – The Blizzard Podcast Episode Eighty Seven
Key moments in the history of televising the game
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 […]