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Contents
Contents
The Blizzard, Issue Five
Introduction
03.
65.
Editors Note
68.
41.
93.
59.
Theory
Interview
48.
Photo Essay
98.
Contents
Fall
144. Sergio
110. Lars
Sandbrook, My Name
is Ally MacLeod and I am a
Winner
How Scotlands humiliation at the 1978
World Cup knocked nationalism off
course
Fiction
148. David Ashton, The Glasses
A gift from a mysterious visitor changes
life for a man on a Scottish estate...
Greatest Games
155. Vladimir
Novak, Romania 4
Yugoslavia 6
121. Jonathan
Polemics
Five Rings
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Five tales from the rich history of
Olympic football
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190.T-Shirts
30.
Gone?
Is the age of football as a substitute for war
coming to an end?
Editors Note
Jonathan Wilson, Editor
Even before the astonishing nale,
2011-12 had been voted the best
ever Premier League season. After
Manchester City had scored two goals
in injury-time to win it, there was every
reason to support that conclusion. This
was a season of superb and unlikely
games, of collapses and recoveries, of
brilliance and stupidity, of a title race
that went to the very last second. This
was drama of the very highest order, of
the sort that only sport can provide.
It feels churlish to say it, but behind the
excitement there must be a doubt and
it is this: United collected 89 points
and still didnt win the title. Only twice
before in a 38-game season have they,
by far the most successful side of the
Premier League era, surpassed that tally.
In the only season that has come close
to 2011-12 for drama, 1998-99, they
took only 79 points and won the league.
This year, United won 28 of 38 games
and still didnt win the title. Really, how
unpredictable was this season?
True, the champions arent as far ahead
of the rest as in 2005, when Chelsea
racked up 95 points, but the trend is
obvious. Where 80 points tended to be
enough to win the league in the late
nineties, now its 90. City and United
nished 19 points ahead of the rest.
Admittedly, its fair to assume Chelsea
and Arsenal will improve next season,
and Tottenham, Newcastle and Liverpool
may do so as well, but still, 19 points is a
huge margin and without signicant
investment youd be surprised if Sir Alex
June 2012
47
Interview
Socrates
Socrates
The former Brazil captain talks about why footballers
have a political responsibility
By David Tryhorn
48
David Tryhorn
49
Socrates
50
109
Fall
...the police, the ambulance people,
I threatened them with a huge
kitchen knife.
110
Lars Sivertsen
111
112
132
Polemics
...the real fan is a rhetorical device
deployed to strengthen whatever argument the deployer wants to make.
136
Simon Kuper
137
138
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