The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Twenty-One

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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 Twenty One contains 15 articles in 8 different sections:
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Behind the Throne
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The Captain's Coup, by Alex Holiga - Zvonimir Boban, a controversial interview and Croatia and its conflicted relationship with its national side
The Alchemist, by Samindra Kunti - Michel Sablon on how his ideas helped shaped Belgium and its Golden Generation
Standard Bearer, by James Montague - How Ismail Morina and his drone shaped Albania and their Euro qualification
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Coaches
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The Idiot on the Right, by Dan Brigham - The tempestuous playing career of the Ireland manager Martin ONeill
From Nowhere, by Michael Walker - Michael ONeill on how he inspired Northern Ireland to qualification
Changing the Culture, by Karel Haring - How Pavel Vrba changed the mindset of Czech football
Mellow Peril, by Lukas Vrablik - Jan Kozak on calming down to take Slovakia to the Euros
The Cat Rescuer, by Igor Rabiner - How a fall from a tree set Leonid Slutsky on his way to the top
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The Hosts
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The Burial of the Exotic, by Philippe Auclair - Andre-Pierre Gignac plays in Mexico but could be France’s key striker
Le Vocab, by Tom Williams - A lexicon of French football terms and what they mean
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Impression: England 1966
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Golden Anniversary, by Amy Lawrence - A history told by the people of England and the 1966 World Cup triumph
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Photo Essay
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The Golden Squad, by Lajos Kozak - For 60 years, extraordinary pictures of the great Hungary team lay undeveloped
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Fiction
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Quantum of Bobby, by Iain Macintosh - Bobby answers the call to lead his nation at Euro 2016
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Greatest Games
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Denmark 3 Belgium 2, by Rob Smyth - European Championship group stage, Stade de la Meinau, Strasbourg, 19 June 1984
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Eight Bells
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Euro 76, by Scott Murray - A selection of key games from perhaps the greatest ever international tournament