The Blizzard is a quarterly football magazine published by Blizzard Media. The recommended retail price is £12 per issue. It took its name from an eclectic Sunderland-based newspaper which ran for 12 issues and was established in 1893.

Issue Zero was launched in March 2011 and was made available in a PDF format via download only at a price that the customer specified. From Issue One onwards it has been available in both hard copy and in electronic formats.

Contributors

• James Appell
• Luke Alfred
• Philippe Auclair
• Andy Brassell
• Michael Cox
• Ouriel Daskal
• Ian Hawkey
• Uli Hesse
• Raphael Honigstein
  Raphael Honigstein
  Raphael Honigstein, a native of Bavaria, is a German journalist and author. Before becoming a journalist he studied law. Honigstein is currently the English football correspondent for the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, and German football correspondent for the British newspaper The Guardian...
  
  
• James Horncastle
• Saša Ibrulj
• Simon Kuper
  Simon Kuper
  Simon Kuper is a British author. He writes about sports "from an anthropologic perspective."Kuper was born in Uganda of South African parents in 1969, and moved to Leiden in the Netherlands as a child, where his father, Adam Kuper, was a lecturer in anthropology at Leiden University. He has also...
  
  

• Iain Macintosh
  Iain Macintosh
  Iain Macintosh is a UK sports journalist and author who writes for the Singapore daily The New Paper. He writes under the column "Your English Kaki" for the sports section ....
  
  
• Gabriele Marcotti
  Gabriele Marcotti
  Gabriele Marcotti is an England-based Italian sports journalist, sports author, and radio-television presenter.Born in Italy and now based in London, he was raised in Chicago, Poland, Germany, New York and Japan...
  
  
• Scott Murray
• Vladimir Novak
• Musa Okwonga
• Michael Orr
• Joel Richards
• Lars Sivertsen
• Rob Smyth
• Jacob Steinberg
• Paul Tomkins
  Paul Tomkins
  Paul Tomkins is an English football columnist and author. He writes solely about Liverpool F.C., of whom he is an avid fan. He is 36 years old and was diagnosed with Chronic fatigue syndrome in 1999. As a fan first, Tomkins's articles mainly focus on statistics and analysis in context, while...
  
  
• Jonathan Wilson
  Jonathan Wilson (journalist/author)
  Jonathan Wilson is a British sports journalist and author who writes for a number of publications including the Guardian, the Independent and Sports Illustrated. He is a columnist for World Soccer and is the founder and editor of The Blizzard...