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The Blizzard: The Football Quarterly - Issue 56
Published in March 2025, Issue Fifty Six and its six sections contains 16 articles including the story of Botafogo rallying from collapse to bring home the Libertadores; how football enabled a Finnish academic to find a new home; why 2023-24 was so special for Bayer Leverkusen fans; how Exeter City make fan ownership work in the modern world.
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Published March 19, 2025
About the author
Jonathan Wilson
87 books53 followersJonathan Wilson is a British-born writer and professor who lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
Jonathan Wilson is the author of seven books: the novels The Hiding Room and A Palestine Affair, a finalist for the 2004 National Jewish Book Award, two collections of short stories Schoom and An Ambulance is on the Way: Stories of Men in Trouble, two critical works on the fiction of Saul Bellow and most recently a biography, Marc Chagall, runner-up for the 2007 National Jewish Book Award. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and Best American Short Stories, among other publications, and he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate, Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University.
Wilson also writes a column on soccer for the Internet Newspaper, The Faster Times.
Jonathan Wilson is the author of seven books: the novels The Hiding Room and A Palestine Affair, a finalist for the 2004 National Jewish Book Award, two collections of short stories Schoom and An Ambulance is on the Way: Stories of Men in Trouble, two critical works on the fiction of Saul Bellow and most recently a biography, Marc Chagall, runner-up for the 2007 National Jewish Book Award. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and Best American Short Stories, among other publications, and he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate, Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University.
Wilson also writes a column on soccer for the Internet Newspaper, The Faster Times.
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May 9, 2025
Another consistently strong compendium of essays from The Blizzard, purveyors of the best in longform football journalism for over a decade. Among the highlights of issue fifty-six of The Blizzard are Chris Lepkowski’s harrowing account of the last hours of Jock Stein’s life, as the legendary manager passed away on the touchline of a Wales v. Scotland World Cup qualifier. A further high point of this issue is Sean Cole’s superb piece on the horror tackle that almost ended the career of the Arsenal striker Eduardo. And there are excellent articles on topics as diverse as German fan culture, India’s nascent football scene, football’s relationship with Nationalism, and Red Star Belgrade.
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