Around the (football) world in seven days

âÂÂTo travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labourâ - Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881.

Taking that on board, I took a slow boat to Italy last week, but the travel has been unrelenting ever since and IâÂÂve not had the suggested luxury of labouring.

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Andy Mitten
Editor at Large

Andy Mitten is Editor at Large of FourFourTwo, interviewing the likes of Lionel Messi, Eric Cantona, Sir Alex Ferguson and Diego Maradona for the magazine. He also founded and is editor of United We Stand, the Manchester United fanzine, and contributes to a number of publications, including GQ, the BBC and The Athletic.