The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Three

Issue Three Contents

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Spartak

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* Fallen Idol, by Igor Rabiner—The decline of Spartak Moscow is inextricably bound up with the fortunes of their former coach, Oleg Romantsev

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Interview

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* Zagallo and Tostão—Mario Zagallo and Tostão talk to Tim Vickery about 1970, Pelé and the Brazilian style

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New Beginnings

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* A Crisis of Legitimacy, by Brian Oliver—Kenyan clubs are leading the fight against corruption in their football association

* For Richer, For Poorer, by Shaul Adar—How nationalism has shaped the rise and fall of Beitar Jerusalem

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In Appreciation of...

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* Angelo Di Livio, by Michael Cox—How the midfielder's loyalty inspired Fiorentina's return from bankruptcy

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Theory

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* The Mind has Mountains, by Lars Sivertsen—Egil Olsen talks about his conception of the game, Wimbledon and geographical trivia

* The Harmony of the Sphere, by Philippe Auclair—An exploration of the links between football and music

* Smash and Thunder, by Alexander Jackson—How a change of approach helped Newcastle cast off their chokers tag in the 1910 FA Cup final

* The Head Case, by John Sinnott—Standard Liège's Michel Bruyninckx leads the way in developing footballers' mental capacity

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Foreign Soil

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* The Bomb and the Bowler Hat, by Barney Ronay—How modern football was shaped in an internment camp in Berlin

* Tour of Duty, by Davidde Corran—With the Vietnam War at its height, Australia sent a team to play in a tournament in Saigon

* The Kennedy Conundrum, by Paul Doyle—Ireland's 1986 tour of Iceland brough their first international trophy, but ended an international career

* The Midfield, by David Ashton—A veteran remembers the no-man's-land football of the First World War

* The Youth of Today, by Jonathan Wilson—Clouds, clubs and the collective: reflections on the Under-20 World Cup

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Polemics

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* Comparing Apple with Oranje, by Simon Kuper and David Winner—Were Johan Cruyff and Ajax the John Lennon and Beatles of Amsterdam?

* The Race Card, by Gabriele Marcotti—Racist chanting is deplorable, but does the rush to condemn it obscure deeper issues?

* The Dawson's Creek Principle, by Musa Okwonga—Could it be that a US teen drama helps explain anomalies of football history?

* What's a Vote Worth?, by Steve Menary—How Fifa's attempts to devolve power could be a bribers' charter

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Football Manager

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* The Ballad of Bobby Manager: My Autobiography", by Iain Macintosh—When somebody takes their game of Football Manager just a little too seriously...

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Greatest Games

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* Denmark 4 USSR 2, by Janus Køster-Rasmussen—World Cup qualifier, Idrætsparken, Copenhagen, 5 June 1985

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Eight Bells

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* Great Finishes in Japan, by Ben Mabley—A selection of the most gripping climaxes to the J.League and JSL season