The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Fourteen

Jonathan Wilson · Philippe Auclair · Iain Macintosh · Ben Lyttleton · Rob Smyth · Scott Murray · Tim Vickery · Gabriele Marcotti · Dion Fanning · Simon Kuper

Sep 2014 · Blizzard Media Ltd

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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.

Contents of Issue Fourteen

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World Cup Review

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* Cassiano Gobbet, The End of the Affair - Brazil’s 7-1 semi-final defeat will reverberate through history: what went wrong?

* Ben Lyttleton, The Inevitable Conclusion - Another World Cup exit on penalties: why can’t the Dutch win shoot-outs?

* Various, Notes from a Tournament - It wasn’t all about the football. Memories of the 2014 World Cup.

* Ryu Voelkel, A selection of the best images from the 2014 World Cup

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Past Glories

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* Elko Born, The Velvet Revolution - Johan Cruyff, Ajax and the struggle for the soul of Dutch football

* Dan Nolan, Orbán Planning - The Hungarian prime minister’s attempts to restore the national team to glory

* Rob Smyth, Lars Eriksen, Mike Gibbons, The End of the Affair - How Spain and a misplaced backpass halted Denmark’s glorious 1986 World Cup campaign

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The Misfits

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* Richard Jolly, Bye-bye Bebé - The strange Manchester United career of the Portuguese striker

* Luke Alfred, Best in Show - While most fans were focused on the 1974 World Cup, George Best was playing in South Africa

* Joachim Barbier, The Still Point - Can a player like Javier Pastore make it at a club like PSG?

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The Revolutionaries

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* Alex Footman, $10 Per Day - Aid poverty and political turmoil, football goes on in Afghanistan

* John Harding, Football’s First Millionaire - How Bolton’s Jack Slater smashed class barriers to make his fortune

* Pedar Foss, The Rise and Fall of Castel Rigone - The entrepreneur, the village team and the experiment in humanistic capitalism

* Gunnar Persson, A Passage to Indiana - The Swedish great Murren Carlsson’s doomed attempt to make it in the USA

* Philippe Auclair, The Second Birth of French Football - Michel Hidalgo survived kidnapping to lead France to the 1978 World Cup

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Fiction

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* Iain Macintosh, Quantum of Bobby - Spinning through time and space, Bobby Manager finds himself in Escape to Victory

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Greatest Games

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* Michael Yokhin, Russia 1 Ukraine 1 - Euro 2000 qualifier, Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, 9 October 1999

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Eight Bells

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* Jack Lang, Brazilian Courtroom Dramas - A selection of controversies in the Brazilian game that were settled off the pitch

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