The Blizzard: The Football Quarterly - Issue 60

by Jonathan Wilson, Dave Hannigan, Philippe Auclair

Published in March 2026, Issue Sixty and its four sections contains 12 articles including the story of Nacional’s 1927 tour of the USA; how a safecracker bought Darlington and left them in crisis; the impact Newcastle United’s Carabao Cup win had on the success-starved city; how many goes it took Pelé to get his overhead equaliser right in Escape to Victory.

Genres: Football

269 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 17, 2026

About the author

Jonathan 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.