The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Seventeen

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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.

Issue Seventeen Contents:----------------

Beyond the Game

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* The Player of the People, by Igor Rabiner - The death of Igor Cherenkov last year prompted an astonishing outpouring of grief from Spartak fans

* The Man who Sacked Himself, Philippe Auclair - Gabriel Hanot was a player, a coach, a journalist and a pioneer who remains oddly neglected in France

* Looking Forward, by Brian Oliver - How the former Chelsea defender John Dempsey left football behind to work in a care home

* The Complicated Symbol, by Shaul Adar - Bnei Sakhnin's journey to establish themselves as an Arab team in Israel's top flight

* Namesakes, by James Corbett - Everton have had two Alex Youngs: one's the subject of a Ken Loach film, the other killed his brother

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Interview

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Paul Breitner, by Miguel Delaney - How a Bayern Munich defeat paved the way for West Germany's 1974 World Cup triumph

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Belfast

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* A Patchwork City, by Lefkos Kyriacou - Mapping the fan-bases of the major club's in Northern Ireland's capital

* Requiem for a Stand, by Keith Bailie - A history in seven key moments of the short life of the Kop at Windsor Park

* Before the Shopping Centre, by Conor Heffernan - How crowd violence brought an end to the existence of Belfast Celtic

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Theory

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* The Man who Built White Ships, by Alex Holiga - Stanko Poklepovic, the oldest coach in Europe, and the importance of spiral impostations

* The Whisky Option, by Simon Curtis - Malcolm Allison's time at Sporting was brief but fans remember him fondly

* Messi and the Machine, by Richard Fitzpatrick - Could playing video games be shaping the present generation of footballers?

* Not at All Costs, by George Caulkin - Paul Tisdale has not only revolutionised how Exeter City play, but how they think

* Wrestling with the All-Blacks, by Charlie Eccleshare - How Declan Edge is trying to make New Zealand take football seriously

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Polemic

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* Against Sanitised Football, by Alexander Shea - Can fans fight back against clubs who seek to ignore their history for bland branding?

* The Trials of Baghdad Bob, by Paul Brown - Can Roberto Martinez restore his reputation after a season of wilful blinkeredness?

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Fiction

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* The Tackle, by David Ashton - John Brodie, the former winger turned detective, returns to hunt down some stolen medals

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Greatest Games

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* Scotland 3 England 1, by Paul Brown - Home International, Hampden Park, Glasgow, 17 April 1937

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* Eight Bells

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* Unexpected Relegations, by Michael Yokhin - A selection of giants who have unexpectedly lost their place in the top tier

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