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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.<br/><br/>Issue Ten contains 22 articles in 10 different sections:<br/><br/>----------------<br/>Forgotten<br/>----------------<br/>The Dreamers, by Philippe Auclair — Amid the protests of 1968, a group of journalists took French football leaders hostage<br/>The Silenced Crowd, by Richard Fitzpatrick - When Manchester United and Liverpool colluded to fix a match<br/>The Reluctant Cabbie, by Michal Petrák - The tragically curtailed career of the Czechoslovak great Rudolf Kucera<br/>The Unmarked Grave, by Tom Adams - What really happened to Andrew Watson, British football’s first black star<br/>The Talent Spotters, by Mike Calvin - A glimpse into the murky and unglamorous world of football scouts<br/>----------------<br/>Interview<br/>----------------<br/>Fatih Terim, by Andy Brassell - The Emperor on the rise of Turkish football and breaking the glass ceiling with Galatasaray<br/>---------------------<br/>Nationalisms<br/>---------------------<br/>Anyone But China, by Henryk Szadziewski - Football plays a vital role in establishing a sense of identity for the Uyghur people<br/>The Hamburg Factor, by Simon Kuper - The Euro 88 semi-final marked the peak of the Dutch-German football rivalry<br/>No Man’s Land, by Jonathan Wilson- Sinisa Mihajlovic, Vukovar and the compromises of war<br/>---------------------<br/>Photo Essay<br/>---------------------<br/>Golden Vision, by Felix Lill and Javier Sauras - The Olympic dream that fires the world’s greatest blind footballer<br/>------------<br/>Theory<br/>------------<br/>Notes on Street Football, by Aleksandar Hemon - What kickabouts reveal about the tortured artists of neo-romantic myth<br/>A Man for all Seasons, by Aleksandar Holiga - To