The Blizzard (magazine)

Frustratingly, in the 61st edition of The Blizzard we failed to update the crossword from our previous edition. We extend our apologies to all our readers for this mistake in the magazine. The correct crossword and it’s subsequent answers, are available to download and print off below, so those who would like to give knut’s fiendish puzzle a go, can. In order to download and print off the correct crossword and solutions, you need to copy and paste the links below into a new tab on your browser.

THE WORLD CUP Don’t Come Home Too Soon – Ewan Flynn The last time all eyes were turned on the Tartan Army Ending as it Began – Vladimir Novak When Serbia-Montenegro crashed and burned in Spain No League, No Problem – Steve Menary Curaçao are about to take their World Cup bow Notes from a Small Island – Simone Pierotti It will also be Cape Verde’s first appearance in the tournament The Blue-and-black Myth – Rad Willems Hector Goetinck, Belgium’s first national coach The (Silk) Road to the...

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America’s World Cup travails before their big moment this summer This piece was written by Mark Franek, features in the 61st edition of The Blizzard and is adapted from a chapter in American Soccer Nation: The Remarkable 150-Year History of Yanks on a Roll, from Mob Football to the Modern Game by Mark Franek and is used with permission from BenBella Books. Find out more about the book and the project here. Follow the project on IG @AmericanSoccerNation “I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan.

How a Bosnian kayaker survived the war to play football for Singapore This piece was written by Aleksandar Djurić with Vladimir Novak for issue 45 of The Blizzard I grew up in Lipac, a village near Doboj in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and from my early childhood I loved football. I guess I inherited it from my father who always followed broadcasts of matches of the Yugoslav league on his transistor radio. I started playing football at the age of seven, with friends in our village and in school.

Binga, the Malian second-division side who reached the play-off round of the CAF Confederation Cup This piece was written by Alasdair Howarth for issue 44 of The Blizzard 900km into the bus journey from Mali to Liberia, the Binga FC squad were devastated to hear that they could go no further. Just outside the village where they had stopped for a break, they were told that the road ahead had eroded and they would not be able to get past.

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Ron Newman, Freddie Goodwin, Gordon Bradley and the English takeover of NASL This piece was written by Nige Tassell for issue 43 of The Blizzard The 7,700-odd fans in the Lockhart Stadium were far from sure what it was they were witnessing. It was late April 1978, the fourth game of the NASL season for the local heroes, the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. They’d made an inauspicious start to the new campaign. Inauspicious was putting it kindly.

Approaching the last FIFA World Cup, the one in Qatar, much of the talk was surrounding it taking place in the middle of the European season, forcing domestic leagues to take a break and, possibly, fatiguing a bunch of the world’s best players. The winter World Cup was hugely controversial, but by the time it came around, sentiments had simmered. Now, with the 2026 FIFA World Cup taking place across an entire continent, the focus has greatly been on the money involved.

Gipo Viani and the development of catenaccio at Salernitana This piece was written by Alberto Facchinetti for issue 42 In the summer of 1940, Giuseppe Ferruccio ‘Gipo’ Viani found himself unemployed with an estranged wife, a partner and a four-year-old son to provide for. He didn’t know where to turn. His footballing career had just come to an end after a mere five appearances in his final season in Serie A, in Turin with Juventus.