Friday 17 May 2013, 12:02
Eras, and specifically the end of them, are declared too often in football. Those of us old enough to remember the 1980s will recall complaints about the lack of characters in the game "these days"...
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Thursday 16 May 2013, 16:09
We've interviewed a fair few people down the years, and the subject of Mr Beckham has come up more than a couple of times. Here are some our favourites anecdotes, tributes and passing mentions... Becks...
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Tuesday 14 May 2013, 14:31
Despite missing out on Champions League qualification to Tottenham the previous May, all the signs in summer 2010 pointed to a Premier League title challenge from Manchester City in the coming season....
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Tuesday 14 May 2013, 00:18
Manchester City have summarily sacked Roberto Mancini. FourFourTwo.com Editor Gary Parkinson on the Greek tragedy of the Italian at the Etihad... In the end, the only surprise was the time of death. Many...
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Monday 13 May 2013, 15:00
In November 2009, FourFourTwo featured an exclusive interview with Everton manager David Moyes. He told us about his route to the top, living with his dad, almost signing Michael Essien – and if he could...
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Monday 13 May 2013, 13:46
Want to play at Old Trafford? Of course you do. Even if you’re nonplussed about scoring a goal at the same ground that hosted the likes of George Best, Bobby Charlton and Eric Cantona every other week...
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Monday 13 May 2013, 10:29
Simon Carter names those who suffered most in domestic football on Saturday and Sunday... Football The announcement of Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement and David Moyes’ subsequent appointment at Manchester...
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Friday 10 May 2013, 14:17
His managerial style became famous at Manchester United, but Alex Ferguson had a fearsome temper way before that. In this September 1998 FourFourTwo feature, Mike Wilson reveals the story of Fergie's...
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Friday 10 May 2013, 13:25
In the interests of keeping tech-savvy iPad-wafting FourFourTwo fans in the loop, it’s our great pleasure to bring to your attention the iPad edition of FourFourTwo magazine . Completely re-designed for...
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Thursday 09 May 2013, 16:33
With David Moyes announced as Sir Alex Ferguson's successor at Manchester United, Joe Brewin quizzes a top sports psychologist on the challenges ahead The heart, the soul, the passion, the genius....
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Thursday 09 May 2013, 11:59
How do you follow a true great? With Sir Alex Ferguson leaving Manchester United, Tom J Doyle analyses those who have had big acts to follow And with that, an era ended. Yes, the curtain is finally coming...
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Wednesday 08 May 2013, 13:48
FourFourTwo.com Editor Gary Parkinson reacts to the retirement of Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson The shock is a surprise. It shouldn't be unexpected to hear of the retirement of a 71-year...
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Wednesday 08 May 2013, 11:47
Sir Alex Ferguson is famous for three things: Being a great football manager, have a malfunctioning backside, and being strict timekeeper (when it suits). Here's our guide to his moves as far as the...
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Wednesday 08 May 2013, 09:30
For the last time this season, ESPN have posed a trio of FourFourTwo readers' topical questions in an exclusive addendum to their Press Pass show – this week, former Reading, Newcastle and West Ham...
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Tuesday 07 May 2013, 16:00
It was a Bad Weekend for… Those who thought they were safe Reading 's trip to Fulham held a significance that nobody expected. With the Cottagers on 40 points and the Royals already relegated, the...
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Friday 03 May 2013, 11:47
Followers of English football have pretty much been starved of top-of-the-table drama this season, with three of England’s top four divisions crowning their title winners weeks before the end of the campaign...
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Tuesday 30 April 2013, 14:48
Ten years ago, FourFourTwo collected Galacticos . Our iconic March 2003 issue featured Zinedine Zidane, Luis Figo, Ronaldo and Roberto Carlos, among others, on what it's like inside the world's...
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Monday 29 April 2013, 15:32
It was a Bad Weekend for… Men in black (and white) There’s no doubt that this has been a massive week. Forget Luis Suarez and all that, news of JLS splitting up (they only had one shot, and they made it...
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Monday 29 April 2013, 10:00
Are you a grassroots football player? Do you always strive to perform to the highest level possible? Then you could star in Lucozade Sport’s new advertising campaign and meet two Premier League stars....
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Thursday 25 April 2013, 15:05
Once again, ESPN have posed a trio of FourFourTwo readers' topical questions in an exclusive addendum to their Press Pass show – this week, former US international defender Janusz Michallik answers...
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Monday 22 April 2013, 13:53
It was a Bad Weekend for… Unsavoury Suarez Did he have a bad weekend? Or did Luis Suarez have exactly the type of weekend that he thrives on? It’s not news that the Uruguayan is partial to a little controversy...
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Thursday 18 April 2013, 12:02
Cardiff City are back in the top flight for the first time over half a century. But their promotion-winning season began in ignominy, with fans warring over a change in the club's colours, instigated...
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Wednesday 17 April 2013, 17:00
Sports writer Scott Johnson explains how Chelsea's three hottest young talents could slip the net... While Eden Hazard's influence at Chelsea continues to grow, fellow Belgians Romelu Lukaku, Thibaut...
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Wednesday 17 April 2013, 11:21
Footballers recall a single-minded but divisive figure who was never far from the headlines... Michael Johnson July 2007 "Thatcher – gone now but was really funny, always up to no good" Stephen...
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Monday 15 April 2013, 17:18
It was a Bad Weekend for... Millwall Football Club Oh, Millwall. They were never going to be the darlings of the domestic cups; despite the Lions' run to the FA Cup semi-final, the public had already...
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Monday 15 April 2013, 10:50
Premier League facts from Opta , our partners on the FREE Stats Zone app – which now also covers La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 Newcastle 0-3 Sunderland Sunderland scored with 3 of their 6 shots...
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Friday 12 April 2013, 17:10
ESPN have posed FourFourTwo readers' topical questions in an exclusive addendum to their Press Pass show. This week, Steve Nicol answers the following questions: Will Wigan's FA Cup run affect...
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Friday 12 April 2013, 11:08
Since they were introduced in 1987, the play-offs have given hope to Football League sides languishing in mid-table around the time the clocks go forward. Here are some of the more impressive late promotion...
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Monday 08 April 2013, 16:18
The Doomed There were very few raised eyebrows at Reading on Saturday lunchtime, with the only real surprise being that Southampton weren’t able to take more of their chances in the ‘Nigel Adkins Derby...
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Wednesday 03 April 2013, 13:30
Five years ago the Premier League’s top clubs were all clambering for a 17-year-old Welsh prodigy who’d been shining brightly in the Championship. The teenage sensation looked set to join the newly crowned...
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Tuesday 02 April 2013, 14:00
Even a cursory glance at the Championship, League One or League Two table will tell you that things are certainly hotting up throughout the Football League. From the dogfight at the bottom of the fourth...
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Thursday 28 March 2013, 15:23
Once again, ESPN have answered a handful of FourFourTwo readers' topical questions in an exclusive addendum to their Press Pass show – this week, former Newcastle and West Ham goalkeeper Shaka Hislop...
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Thursday 28 March 2013, 08:30
The end of the international break sees focus return to club football for the remaining two months of the season. If you're anything like us, you're probably wondering how the laugh-a-minute madness...
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Monday 25 March 2013, 13:09
On Sunday, former Ajax, Real Madrid and AC Milan star Clarence Seedorf was sent off for only the second time in his career - for walking off the pitch too slowly. Having just been substituted towards the...
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Friday 22 March 2013, 13:40
England's first under-21 match, a goalless draw against Wales at Molineux, took place in 1976. Since then, hundreds of young hopefuls have featured for the Lion Cubs (a nickname that, mercifully, hasn't...
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Tuesday 19 March 2013, 15:27
FourFourTwo.com editor Gary Parkinson on the decline and fall of former Liverpool, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Newcastle United and England star Michael Owen...
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Tuesday 19 March 2013, 15:01
Looking back at the first footballing steps of Michael Owen – for Liverpool and England... Give him a ball: Owen at 14, eagerly awaiting the future 17 May 1996: Liverpool's FA Youth Cup win over West...
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Monday 18 March 2013, 12:37
It Was a Bad Weekend For… The title race While Alex Ferguson bemoaned the fact that Manchester City ’s 2-0 defeat to Everton hours before his side faced managerless Reading at Old Trafford “took the edge...
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Wednesday 13 March 2013, 15:00
Once again, ESPN have answered a handful of FourFourTwo readers' topical questions in an exclusive addendum to their Press Pass show – this week, Liverpool hero Steve Nicol answers the following posers...
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Monday 11 March 2013, 12:30
It Was a Bad Weekend For… Fluffy-haired scapegoats It was a brutal moment in an afternoon filled with them for the sour Toffees. As the stadium announcer called out details of Everton ’s 67th-minute change...
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Thursday 07 March 2013, 11:45
FourFourTwo Editor David Hall went to Milan and found himself in the middle of Mario-mania... Walking up to the San Siro was a great moment for me. Several things came to pass to make that moment special...
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Wednesday 06 March 2013, 11:00
Sports writer Scott Johnson talks to a midfielder who was rated among English football's hottest young talents five years ago, and is now looking to rebuild his career in the USA... When former Derby...
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Wednesday 06 March 2013, 08:00
He was never likely to stay quiet for long, was he? With the ink barely dry on his new contract, Mario Balotelli is the cover star of the April 2013 issue of FourFourTwo – out now digitally and in print...
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Monday 04 March 2013, 14:54
It was a bad weekend for… Birthday boys On Saturday, Southampton hoped to celebrate manager Mauricio Pochettino’s birthday with a home win over QPR that would put clear air between themselves and the bottom...
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Monday 04 March 2013, 14:26
Tottenham edged out north London rivals Arsenal 2-1 in a crunch derby clash on Sunday at White Hart Lane, with two quick-fire goals in the first-half proving enough to claim all three points. The result...
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Wednesday 27 February 2013, 11:00
As usual, ESPN have answered a handful of FourFourTwo readers' topical questions in an exclusive addendum to their Press Pass show – and as host Andrew Orsatti finds out, Robbie Mustoe isn't holding...
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Monday 25 February 2013, 11:24
It was a bad weekend for… Romance Although Bradford City have beaten more Premier League teams this season than QPR, facing Swansea in the League Cup Final always looked like it would be one step too far...
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Thursday 14 February 2013, 23:13
Former Premier League favourite and ESPN pundit Robbie Earle answers FourFourTwo readers' topical questions, namely: Where's it gone wrong for Man City? Do they need a new manager? Is Gareth Bale...
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Thursday 14 February 2013, 10:58
In last September's issue, after much media tutting about England climbing to third in the FIFA rankings while Brazil sank out of the top 10, FourFourTwo published an explanation of the equation behind...
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Monday 11 February 2013, 10:53
It Was a Bad Weekend For… Hart of the City By any measure you wish to take, this was an exceptionally bad weekend for the Premier League champions. Bad that they lost at Southampton ; bad that their main...
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Friday 08 February 2013, 15:27
When Reading 'super-sub' Adam Le Fondre was this week named Premier League Player of the Month for January, having not even started a league match throughout the month in question, FourFourTwo...
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Tuesday 05 February 2013, 15:30
At the cover-shoot for the latest issue of FourFourTwo, Editor David Hall has a holiday romance with the sexy new kid on the European block... My first sight of the Borussia Dortmund squad came across...
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Tuesday 05 February 2013, 12:30
We at FourFourTwo had a dilemma. How could we possibly follow up our extraordinary Players’ Poll issue? And how, after everybody had been talking earnestly about the state of football off the pitch, could...
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Monday 04 February 2013, 12:03
It's not always England: quarter-final defeat by penalty shootout accounts for Africa Cup of Nations hosts South Africa. – Chris Ricco/BackpagePix, Sports Inc/Press Association Images ...and for every...
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Monday 04 February 2013, 10:39
It Was a Bad Weekend For… Pepe Reina At some point between rushing from his goalmouth and tussling unsuccessfully for the ball with Sergio Aguero, Liverpool ’s Pepe Reina must have wondered whether he...
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Wednesday 30 January 2013, 16:30
Former Premier League goalkeeper and ESPN pundit Shaka Hislop says Arsenal's main problem is inconsistency, playing down the suggestion the North Londoners are 'flat-track bullies'. The Gunners...
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Wednesday 30 January 2013, 08:30
Eric Walters, Head of Player Recruitment at Base Soccer, talks us through Leon Best’s last-gasp move from Coventry to Newcastle in February 2010 Sunday 31 January 17:15 I'm at the Emirates Stadium...
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Monday 28 January 2013, 11:09
So many cupsets, so little time… The Giants of... Liverpool On Saturday December 8th, Oldham Athletic won 2-0 at fellow League One strugglers Colchester . It was a good win to follow an impressive FA Cup...
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Friday 25 January 2013, 14:36
Some of the world’s top clubs and most influential agents met to very little fanfare at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium last month. FFT sneaked in to find out exactly why... Words: Andrew Murray Pictures: Daniel...
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Thursday 24 January 2013, 16:49
Thanks to Eden Hazard’s trigger-happy toes, football’s young ferriers are in the news. FFT's Andrew Murray investigates what happens when ballboys become the story... That’s not Serey clever Unhappy...
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Thursday 24 January 2013, 11:10
When footballing controversy meets social media, the result is rarely handsome. So it comes as no surprise to see much bickering over Chelsea playmaker Eden Hazard's petulant prod at a Swansea ballboy...
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Thursday 24 January 2013, 00:00
Real Madrid top Deloitte's Football Money League for the eighth successive year - but which clubs are gaining fast and who is on the slide? Take a gander at the below infographic to find answers to...
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Monday 21 January 2013, 09:58
Simon Carter names those who suffered most during Saturday and Sunday's football action (or lack thereof...) The Usual Suspects The likes of Aston Villa, Wigan, Newcastle and Reading have all featured...
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Friday 18 January 2013, 14:54
The February edition of FourFourTwo has, as well as the Players' Poll and an exclusive interview with Rio Ferdinand, 28 of the funniest footballing stories you've never heard. We asked our network...
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Thursday 17 January 2013, 13:29
Former Premier League goalkeeper and ESPN pundit Shaka Hislop says Manchester United's upcoming Champions League double-header against Real Madrid shouldn't prove too much of a distraction from...
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Wednesday 16 January 2013, 12:00
Once mere space-filler, the tabloid transfer story is now huge for players, fans and clubs alike. But who dances to whose tune? FourFourTwo asks the protagonists... Rupert Murdoch had a problem. The year...
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Monday 14 January 2013, 16:24
With the cost of attending Premier League matches currently somewhere near the top of the football news agenda, FourFourTwo has crunched the numbers to see which set of fans are being asked to fork over...
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Monday 14 January 2013, 08:45
Premier League facts from Opta , our partners on the FREE Stats Zone app Queens Park Rangers 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur QPR have scored with just 8.1% of their shots so far this season. The last teams to have...
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Wednesday 09 January 2013, 12:07
FourFourTwo.com editor Gary Parkinson on the Frank Lampard contract saga... Would Lampard (or his agent) accept a wage drop? It is widely believed that Lampard's current deal, agreed in 2008, is worth...
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Monday 07 January 2013, 13:20
The finest images from the FA Cup Third Round weekend... "Eeh, it's quiet...": Blackburn fans make their way to watch Rovers beat Bristol City 3-0. The 5,504 attendance was Blackburn's...
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Monday 07 January 2013, 11:10
Simon Carter looks at the weekend sufferers... Newcastle's cup hopes (yet again) Seagulls versus Magpies is a clash as old as time itself (probably) so it was with dry mouths and racing hearts that...
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Friday 04 January 2013, 16:45
FourFourTwo's man in Germany, Titus Chalk , tells us more about the German midfielder heading for White Hart Lane... He is a devoted Everton fan, loves Coldplay, Walkers crisps and beans on toast,...
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Wednesday 02 January 2013, 12:09
Explosive. That’s the only way to describe the February 2013 issue of FourFourTwo , out now digitally and in print . No other word would suffice after our Players’ Poll – except maybe “Blimey!” Under the...
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Thursday 27 December 2012, 20:54
We normally point out who's had a bad weekend. But for the festive season, Vithushan Ehantharajah thought he'd ignore the puddings and concentrate on the crackers... Sunderland Consecutive 1-0...
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Friday 21 December 2012, 10:46
Former Liverpool defender Steve Nicol says the Anfield club must sign proven goalscorers if they are to have any chance of clinching a top four spot. The ESPNFC Press Pass pundit, who made 468 appearances...
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Wednesday 19 December 2012, 11:44
It’s often said that two heads are better than one, but is this true of football management? Can two managers effectively occupy the same throne without bickering over everything from tactics to transfer...
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Monday 17 December 2012, 13:55
It Was a Bad Weekend For… Brendan Rodgers' hubris Comedy is, as we know, all about the timing. On Saturday afternoon, media outlets from the BBC website to Sky Sports News, not to mention countless...
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Monday 10 December 2012, 16:15
Some of our favourite photos from this weekend's games around the world: How did he do that?: Swansea react to Norwich's Sebastien Bassong scoring the visitors' second goal of the game. (PA...
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Monday 10 December 2012, 12:44
It Was a Bad Weekend For… Balotelli, Nasri and a fistful of coins Fans of irony (and let’s face it, who isn’t a fan of irony?) had lots to savour in the Sunday clash at the Etihad Stadium between Premier...
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Monday 10 December 2012, 09:48
Few players have a clip-reel quite like Matt Le Tissier - but which strike does the Southampton hero think deserves more air time? "I scored a goal as part of a hattrick in the 1989/90 season at the...
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Friday 07 December 2012, 15:03
The new issue of FourFourTwo includes the Top 100 Players in the World – and there aren't many Englishmen in it. But as Joshua Smith reports, it's all part of the process... England’s status in...
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Friday 07 December 2012, 12:12
ZonalMarking.net 's Michael Cox marks the release of the January 2013 edition of FourFourTwo - featuring an access-all-areas look behind the scenes at Arsenal - by analysing the development of the...
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Thursday 06 December 2012, 17:36
FourFourTwo.com editor Gary Parkinson wonders why the kerfuffle when a multi-venue Euro 2020 was inevitable, if not even preferable... So the wonks have had their way. As predicted, UEFA's executive...
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Thursday 06 December 2012, 16:48
Does it matter if you finish top or second in your Champions League group? Sir Alex Ferguson, whose Manchester United team topped their group, thinks so ("You hope you do finish top. There are certain...
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Thursday 06 December 2012, 11:30
In a new fortnightly feature, FourFourTwo will be picking the brains of the team at ESPN’s football debate show, ESPNFC PressPass. This week, former Reading, Newcastle, West Ham and Portsmouth keeper Shaka...
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Wednesday 05 December 2012, 08:30
FourFourTwo has been granted unprecedented access to one of the world's biggest and most famous football clubs – Arsenal. We sent journalist and broadcaster Sam Delaney to have a snoop around at the...
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Wednesday 05 December 2012, 08:00
The January 2013 issue of FourFourTwo is here - and it’s one you’ve been waiting for. FFT reveals the 100 best players on the planet, while we also meet the men who matter at Arsenal as they reveal their...
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Monday 03 December 2012, 11:30
Sports writer Scott Johnson speaks to the 20-year-old fullback who has gone against the tide by swapping the English Premier League for Belgium's Jupiler League... Forget Michael Owen’s switch to Stoke...
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Monday 03 December 2012, 10:53
It Was a Bad Weekend For… The Two Sides of Chelsea A magnificent first-half performance in which Rafa Benitez’s Chelsea tore into their London rivals West Ham United was marked by an intensity and tempo...
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Saturday 01 December 2012, 21:17
The Flea jumps over the Bomber: Leo Messi has overtaken Gerd Muller's record for goals in a calendar year. We looked into the two remarkable years and found some eyebrow-raising statistics – like how...
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Friday 30 November 2012, 11:39
For me, January 2013 will mark a professional milestone. It will be three years since I became the editor of FourFourTwo magazine – essentially, an anniversary of the proudest day of my working life. In...
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Monday 26 November 2012, 12:48
It was a Bad Weekend for… Poor Old Rafa If you’re a Chelsea fan who was at the Bridge for your side’s 0-0 draw with Manchester City yesterday, chances are that you woke up this morning with a raw throat...
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Friday 23 November 2012, 16:52
With Harry Redknapp poised to become QPR manager, James Maw examines what the new gaffer will inevitably do... 1) Repeatedly mention 'four points from 12 games' Redknapp's curiously defensive...
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Friday 23 November 2012, 12:00
Sports journalist Martin Claytor looks back on a season which unraveled for Chelsea A title-chasing team; player unrest; headline controversy and a manager determined not to back down. Not another 2012...
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Wednesday 21 November 2012, 16:01
Alright, who's next for the Chelsea hot seat? Craig Matthews looks at some possibilities Rafa Benitez Although he has been out of the game since 2010 after his disappointing six-month spell at Inter...
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Wednesday 21 November 2012, 13:38
As Roberto Di Matteo starts clearing his desk at Stamford Bridge, FourFourTwo.com Editor Gary Parkinson explains why we really shouldn't be surprised... In the 1976 sci-fi film Logan's Run , a...
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Wednesday 21 November 2012, 11:30
Roberto Di Matteo may think he's had it bad, but as FourFourTwo's Richard Edwards reveals, it could've been far worse. Text, Ceefax, online, on his son's birthday: there are many ways to...
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Monday 19 November 2012, 13:31
Tottenham It’s hard to say which image from Saturday lunchtime’s catalogue of disasters will be hardest for Tottenham Hotspur fans to digest. The vision of a forlorn Emmanuel Adebayor trudging down the...
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Thursday 15 November 2012, 00:01
The shots are in, the votes are cast and the winners have been announced for the finest photographs of the 2011/12 Barclays Premier League season. Press Association snapper Owen Humphreys has been named...
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Monday 12 November 2012, 11:34
It was a bad weekend for... Luis Suarez Much, perhaps too much, has been written about Liverpool ’s start to life under Brendan Rodgers and the stuttering manner in which they have adapted to the change...
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Friday 09 November 2012, 07:25
More from Our Best Goal: for the December issue of FourFourTwo , we asked the fans for their club's finest ever effort. Enjoy! SOUTHEND UNITED Stan Collymore vs Bristol Rovers: Roots Hall, April 14...
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Thursday 08 November 2012, 07:25
In the new issue of FourFourTwo , we asked the fans for their club's finest ever effort. So we put together some video playlists, and called it work. NORTHAMPTON TOWN Sean Parrish vs Cardiff City:...
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Wednesday 07 November 2012, 07:25
More from Our Best Goal: for the December issue of FourFourTwo , we asked the fans for their club's finest ever effort. Enjoy! GILLINGHAM Andy Hessenthaler vs Stoke City: Britannia Stadium, May 13...
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Tuesday 06 November 2012, 11:26
With the news that Hulk's sister has been kidnapped (and safely released), here's one from the archives: in March 2011, FourFourTwo’s Andrew Murray investigated the madness that ensues when footballers...
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Tuesday 06 November 2012, 07:29
For the December issue of FourFourTwo , we asked the fans for their club's finest ever goal. Yesterday we brought you videos from the top of the alphabet: here's some more from the top drawer....
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Monday 05 November 2012, 09:37
Simon Carter casts his eye over the leagues and FA Cup to announce: It was a Bad Weekend For... Anyone But United (of the title-chasers) His face covered in sweat and frustration, Mario Balotelli slumped...
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Monday 05 November 2012, 07:30
For the December issue of FourFourTwo , we asked the fans for their club's finest ever goal. A pleasing number of you responded, and an exciting number of the goals are online for all to see. So sit...
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Friday 02 November 2012, 10:02
In the December 2012 issue of FourFourTwo : goals, goals and more goals! Plus a world exclusive interview with the best player on the planet, and another who isn’t far behind... There is no better sight...
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Monday 29 October 2012, 09:12
Simon Carter exposes the weekend's main sufferers... The second half of the Merseyside derby A first half of epic proportions saw the only occasion in Premier League history where both sides in the...
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Monday 22 October 2012, 11:17
Simon Carter lists the weekend's main sufferers... Sorry Arsenal The autumn is traditionally the ‘oil and water’ period of the season. Early front-runners get rude awakenings, early strugglers wake...
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Thursday 18 October 2012, 09:40
Action from around the world. Warning: May contain nuts Be prepared: Poland fans ready for the rearranged England match Norn Iron fans were 11 minutes from ecstasy but still drew 1-1 in Portugal Never...
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Monday 15 October 2012, 11:30
In the November 2012 edition of FourFourTwo - out now - we reveal twenty of the players who are about to move on up to football's A-list. Some of them are already on the verge of being househole names...
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Monday 15 October 2012, 11:03
It was a bad weekend for… England 2012 In October 1962, The Beatles issued their first single, Love Me Do . The significance of the debut was of course lost on the unknowing British public who purchased...
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Friday 12 October 2012, 10:20
Duty calls: the players arrive for training Vaulting ambition: Roy Hodgson gives Trevor Brooking the slip Roy wonders: Where's everybody gone? New call-up Fraser Forster unfurls his full 6ft7in frame...
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Wednesday 03 October 2012, 10:39
Futurology is a difficult business. As anyone who's followed FourFourTwo since 1994 will know, some of our Boy's A Bit Special predictions have turned out rather ordinary. But then, sometimes you...
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Monday 01 October 2012, 10:40
The English leagues' weekend woe-sufferers, compiled by Simon Carter Manchester United It’s difficult to judge exactly the effect that losing the Premier League title in the dying moments of last season...
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Wednesday 26 September 2012, 14:21
In a forthcoming FourFourTwo we'll be celebrating goals, goals, goals. In a special issue fronted by a world exclusive interview with Lionel Messi, we'll be celebrating the finest goals and goalscorers...
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Wednesday 26 September 2012, 12:10
The former player and manager John Bond has died at the age of 79. We pay pictorial tribute to the former West Ham and Torquay right-back who went on to manage Bournemouth, Norwich, Manchester City, Burnley...
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Monday 24 September 2012, 10:35
Simon Carter surveys the English leagues for Saturday and Sunday sufferers Lousy leaders Ask a million different football fans what it is they love most about the game and chances are you’ll get a million...
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Monday 17 September 2012, 11:45
A look across the English leagues for the Saturday and Sunday sufferers, with Simon Carter ... Saints’ Sinning Defence Fans of the Premier League have over the years been treated to some remarkable examples...
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Wednesday 12 September 2012, 14:02
After the Hillsborough Independent Panel examined nearly half a million documents – many previously unseen – relating to the 1989 disaster, Prime Minister David Cameron gave a statement to Parliament....
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Wednesday 12 September 2012, 10:52
So half a week after "roaring along the road to Rio", Roy's Three Lions are castigated as castrated kittens once again. And the hacks fall over themselves to deliver their monochrome epitaphs...
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Monday 10 September 2012, 11:19
Another weekend's woe-waddlers lined up by Simon Carter It was a bad weekend for: Roy Hodgson’s detractors There are some who remain to be convinced that Roy Hodgson is the right man to lead England...
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Tuesday 04 September 2012, 16:31
The calendar turns and it's new-issue time. This month, we take you inside the Camp Nou, interview yet another host of legends and headline acts, find out what's making Cardiff crazy, annoy FIFA...
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Monday 03 September 2012, 10:00
A look across the English leagues for the Saturday and Sunday sufferers, with Simon Carter ... New Managers (André Villas-Boas Edition) I have a friend whose favourite part of playing Football Manager...
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Tuesday 28 August 2012, 11:23
Wayne Rooney To some extent, this depends on your point of view. Manchester United did win, so from that perspective Wayne Rooney can be relatively happy with the Bank Holiday weekend. Even so, there was...
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Monday 20 August 2012, 11:28
Football is back... and you can't win 'em all. Simon Carter reports on those whose weekend didn't go to plan... Whipping Boys We’re not talking about the linesman who took a beating from Alan...
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Friday 17 August 2012, 15:30
The new Premier League season is now less than 24 hours away, but how will it pan out? We've asked a few respected media types (and oiks from our office) to share their predictions for the coming season...
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Friday 17 August 2012, 08:00
The 2012/13 Premier League season is now within touching distance. We prod another bony finger at it with the final part of our season preview... TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR – Ben McAleer Last season in a tweet...
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Thursday 16 August 2012, 08:00
It's nearly here, it's nearly here! Yes, our 'Best of the 2012 Olympics' DVD will pop through the letterbox any day now*. Oh, and the Premier League is about to return, too... SOUTHAMPTON...
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Wednesday 15 August 2012, 11:13
Destiny. For those who believe it exists, it’s inevitable, a force that has pre-determined the future of individuals. It is unknown whether a 17-year-old Brazilian wonder-kid named Anderson believed in...
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Wednesday 15 August 2012, 10:59
There's no getting away from it: the Premier League starts this weekend. We've asked knowledgeable onlookers about the participants' chances. NEWCASTLE – Kristan Heneage Last season in a tweet...
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Tuesday 14 August 2012, 10:40
The Premier League looms, but how will it shape up? We're asking experts on each team to polish their crystal balls... FULHAM – Thomas McIlroy Last season in a tweet Clint Dempsey took centre stage...
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Monday 13 August 2012, 11:19
With the league season starting this weekend, we've asked experts on each team to assess their chances in the new term. Bookmark these pages for hindsight-fuelled mockery in May... ARSENAL – Ben Welch...
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Wednesday 08 August 2012, 10:44
So you’ve just got your breath back from Manchester City winning the league in the last second of the season, recovered from a summer filled with the Euros and Olympics - what you need now is a bloody...
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Monday 30 July 2012, 14:57
Three years ago, FourFourTwo magazine predicted a 15-man Team GB squad for a faraway football tournament at the 2012 London Olympics. At the time, it was being suggested by some parties that the team should...
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Wednesday 25 July 2012, 11:20
While there's only one place Tottenham's Luka Modric wants to be next season, things don't seem quite so clear cut for Arsenal's Robin van Persie, the man at the centre of the summer's...
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Friday 06 July 2012, 10:45
Admit it: when Iker Casillas lifted the Euro 2012 trophy, you felt a twinge of despondency. Not because Spain didn’t deserve to win, but because it meant the end of the football festival. But never fear...
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Monday 25 June 2012, 15:56
With England's Euro 2012 exit leading to an unsurprising number of calls for a total overhaul of the current squad, FourFourTwo.com editor Gary Parkinson looks ahead two years to Brazil 2014... By...
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Thursday 14 June 2012, 10:45
"A disgrace! Levy’s an idiot! Next season, Spurs will be in the bottom half! Daniel Levy - you are a seriously crap club chairman! Levy is up there with Venkys!" These are the typically unhinged...
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Thursday 07 June 2012, 09:00
Boasting 19 European Cup winners' medals, England went to the 1980 European Championships sure of success. But as Daniel Ruiz explains, things quickly fell apart for Ron Greenwood's team, with...
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Wednesday 06 June 2012, 09:00
With England well and truly humbled at Euro 2000, FFT took a moment to take stock of the situation and assess what needed to be done to turn the fortunes of the national team around. Henry Winter named...
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Friday 01 June 2012, 18:13
You may laugh, but there is an outside chance the Chelsea custodian and his Czech czhums could come up against Stephen Hunt's Republic of Ireland in the semis... You can probably make your own 'helmet'...
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Friday 01 June 2012, 15:30
The Euros are upon us, but we've managed to squeeze out one more intensely intriguing issue before heading to the pub for a month. (The boss isn't reading this, right?) After a look back at the...
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Tuesday 22 May 2012, 11:17
Well, can you? After the 'success' of last season's sponsor naming quiz , we thought we'd test your memory (and the power of advertising) with another. We've used cutting edge technology...
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Tuesday 15 May 2012, 14:43
Workplaces up and down the land are abuzz with debate about who Roy Hodgson should take to Euro 2012, and Casa FourFourTwo is no exception. Here's what we think... David Hall , Editor Goalkeepers:...
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Tuesday 08 May 2012, 11:34
HEROES Roberto Martinez Loyalty in football is a rare thing, so it’s heartening to see it pay off so comprehensively in Roberto Martinez’s case. It’s impossible to give former Swansea boss enough credit...
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Friday 04 May 2012, 11:58
From youthful record-breaker to radio commentator, Tony Incenzo has seen it all at Loftus Road. He tells Tom Bennett about his four-decade odyssey... "I think I’ll have to leave about 6am just in...
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Wednesday 02 May 2012, 15:11
Earlier this week, Manchester City leapfrogged their local rivals United into top spot on goal difference – and after the match, Gary Neville revealed that Sir Alex Ferguson always drilled into his players...
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Wednesday 02 May 2012, 11:14
If you’re worried about the season coming to a close and long football-less summer stretching ahead of you, then you’ve clearly forgotten about the European Championship. Not to worry: it’s our job at...
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Tuesday 01 May 2012, 18:00
So it's Roy, not Harry, who will attempt to sail the perhaps not very good ship England through the choppy waters of Poland and Ukraine. We've spent the last few months trying to second guess Fabio...
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Monday 30 April 2012, 16:44
The November 2011 issue of FourFourTwo previewed the Manchester derby with a cover story examining the history of the fixture and interviewing several protagonists. It makes for fascinating reading......
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Monday 30 April 2012, 08:30
RESULTS Sat 28 Apr Everton 4-0 Fulham, Norwich 0-3 Liverpool, Stoke 1-1 Arsenal, Sunderland 2-2 Bolton, Swansea 4-4 Wolves, West Brom 0-0 Aston Villa, Wigan 4-0 Newcastle Sun 29 Apr Chelsea 6-1 QPR, Tottenham...
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Friday 27 April 2012, 14:15
Pep Guardiola will step down as Barcelona coach at the end of the season, but just who is the man who masterminded arguably the greatest club side of all time? In the August 2011 issue of FourFourTwo,...
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Friday 27 April 2012, 11:04
Roberto Mancini insists Manchester United are still favourites to the lift the Premier League trophy, but if they do, they won't be the first champions to recover from a good hiding earlier in the...
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Friday 27 April 2012, 08:00
The two pictures below - from the summer of 2008, shortly after he took the helm, and earlier this year - would suggest perhaps so... That's what happens to a man who has endured four years of sniping...
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Thursday 26 April 2012, 15:59
The last few days and weeks have seen the paths of two managers lead in very different directions. Terry Connor has looked a disconsolate figure in the Wolves dugout, having picked up two points from a...
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Thursday 26 April 2012, 12:50
We now know the contenders for the Champions League Final on Saturday 19th May: Chelsea and Bayern Munich. Bayern will have home advantage, because back on 29th January 2009 the 2012 final was awarded...
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Wednesday 25 April 2012, 14:40
Perhaps the pressure of the title race really is getting to Manchester City's stars. Watch Mario Balotelli, Joe Hart, David Silva, Vincent Kompany and Samir Nasri try and fail to promote the club and...
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Friday 20 April 2012, 14:53
Even if Pat Rice retires at the end of the season, FourFourTwo.com editor Gary Parkinson doesn't expect major changes at Arsenal You can tell it's spring: Pat Rice is set to retire. Just like last...
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Thursday 19 April 2012, 11:02
In March 2007 FourFourTwo had a sit-down with Chelsea's Didier Drogba, then-contender for Player of the Year and star striker under Jose Mourinho. He explained how he made it to the top, how he reacted...
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Monday 16 April 2012, 12:30
Heroes Carlos Tevez It would be overly simplistic to cite Mario Balotelli’s absence as the key contributor to Manchester City’s sudden rediscovery of cohesion, but his omission allowed another of their...
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Friday 13 April 2012, 15:34
FourFourTwo staff writer Huw Davies wonders why modern clubs so often have undisputed No1s Liverpool’s comedy keeper capers this week have seen the Reds forced to recall their fourth-choice glovesman,...
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Thursday 12 April 2012, 14:51
There comes a time during any revolution when those wanting to overthrow the status quo need to assess if they have the firepower, the arms and the force to enable them to override the current leaders...
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Tuesday 10 April 2012, 15:41
The ever-hectic Easter weekend analysed by Mark Booth , with additional input from James Maw and Gary Parkinson RESULTS Fri 6 Apr Swansea City 0-2 Newcastle United Sat 7 Apr Sunderland 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur;...
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Wednesday 04 April 2012, 14:56
The May issue of FourFourTwo has hit the shelves – Didrik Ottesen reveals why it’s a must-read... As an increasing number of football fans start losing sleep and gnawing off their own fingernails with...
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Friday 30 March 2012, 16:50
American players haven't always been well-received in England. FourFourTwo contributor and Champions staff writer Andy Murray celebrates the man who did more than most to change that. It can be difficult...
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Friday 30 March 2012, 14:20
Matt Le Tissier: A Southampton player so good, even Portsmouth fans liked him. Well, some of them. FourFourTwo's features editor Hitesh Ratna pays tribute. The extravagant beak. The shapeless hair...
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Friday 30 March 2012, 11:43
Earlier this week, we gave credit where it's due for the 20 best Premier League football kits . Now, it's time for debit where it's due: the worst of the last two top-flight decades. And no...
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Friday 30 March 2012, 11:00
Putting together any 'Top 100' is difficult when the subject matter is so subjective, but compiling The Top 100 Premier League Games still seemed like a good idea at the time. More fool us. Everybody...
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Thursday 29 March 2012, 16:42
Earlier this week we asked you to pick two perfect XIs as part of our Premier League week: one made up entirely of Premier League players born in the UK, and another of 11 foreigners. You sent us some...
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Thursday 29 March 2012, 14:16
History remembers the victors, but some of the most dramatic moments in 20 years of the Premier League have come in relegation battles – tense, all-or-nothing affairs. In November 2000, FourFourTwo recalled...
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Wednesday 28 March 2012, 16:19
Two decades of high-eyeball merchandising opportunities... sorry, team shirts have produced some crackers and some shockers. First, how it should be done... Arsenal (H) 2000-2002 The finite shelflife of...
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Wednesday 28 March 2012, 15:15
In our Premier League week we'll be celebrating 20 years of the rebranded top flight – including naming our favourite players from that era. This time, it's the turn of FourFourTwo editor, Mr David...
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Tuesday 27 March 2012, 15:26
In our Premier League Week we'll be celebrating 20 years of the rebranded top flight – including naming our favourite players from that era. Today, FourFourTwo staff writer Huw Davies on the seagull...
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Tuesday 27 March 2012, 14:03
In February 2007, FourFourTwo marked its 150th issue with a number of features on 'The Men Who Changed Football'. But it's not all about the Wengers, Cantonas and Bosmans – as David Conn explains...
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Monday 26 March 2012, 16:23
In February 2007, FourFourTwo marked its 150th issue with a number of features on 'The Men Who Changed Football'. But as Jonathan Wilson notes, it's not all about the Wengers, Cantonas and...
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Monday 26 March 2012, 16:18
In our Premier League Week we'll be celebrating 20 years of the rebranded top flight – including naming our favourite players from that era. First up, FourFourTwo.com Editor Gary Parkinson on the man...
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Monday 26 March 2012, 15:31
The Premier League is fast approaching the climax to its 20th season. Two decades is a long time in football: long enough for stories to grow into legends, long enough for babies to grow into full international...
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Monday 26 March 2012, 11:13
Heroes Owen Coyle The way in which Owen Coyle has conducted himself in the past ten days has been a credit to not only Bolton Wanderers, but Premier League as a whole. Where last Saturday had been traumatic...
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Thursday 22 March 2012, 16:18
Not being the miserable types who snipe and sneer without reason, we at FourFourTwo are bang up for the Olympics. Not least because it represents a chance for immediate salvation after inevitable disappointment...
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Monday 19 March 2012, 12:16
The usual Premier League bouquets and brickbats from Mark Booth – but first, something far more important... HEROES The medical profession and football family Heroes and Villains is a light-hearted round...
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Monday 12 March 2012, 12:30
As things get all the more interesting at the top and bottom of the Premier League, Mark Booth names the do-gooders and evil-doers of the latest round of action... Heroes Manchester United The big winners...
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Friday 09 March 2012, 11:31
When Bolton Wanderers hosted Stoke City in an FA Cup Sixth Round game on 9th March 1946, fans flocked to witness what they thought would be an unforgettable game. Sadly, that's exactly what they got...
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Wednesday 07 March 2012, 12:03
The shiny new edition of FourFourTwo is in shops now , and as usual we want to give you even more. So as you gasp, chuckle and nod in agreement reading the April 2012 issue , see what else we have to offer...
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Monday 05 March 2012, 15:42
FourFourTwo.com Editor Gary Parkinson nominates the weekend's winners and sinners in the top flight HEROES David Moyes Everton's manager has advocated a 20% pay cut for "everyone" in...
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Monday 05 March 2012, 12:00
We're now just under three months from the start of Euro 2012, and England are still without a permanent manager or captain and face a very real possibility of going in to the tournament's first...
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Friday 02 March 2012, 15:00
Jamie Orrell explains why you should buy the new issue of FourFourTwo... The number of shivering short-wearers on your local high street will have told you that spring has sprung, but we’re not interested...
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Tuesday 28 February 2012, 15:48
It’s just over 16 months since Gareth Bale’s Champions League hat-trick in the San Siro propelled him head-first into the continental consciousness. In a way, he has since been burdened by the perhaps...
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Tuesday 28 February 2012, 10:53
Bobby Kennedy once famously suggested that “One fifth of the people are against everything all of the time”. Anybody who has followed this peculiarly turbulent English football season might feel Kennedy...
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Monday 27 February 2012, 12:15
RESULTS (click team name for web-wide club news feed) Sat 25 Feb Chelsea 3-0 Bolton , Newcastle 2-2 Wolves , QPR 0-1 Fulham , West Brom 4-0 Sunderland , Wigan 0-0 Aston Villa , Man City 3-0 Blackburn Sun...
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Friday 24 February 2012, 15:10
FourFourTwo.com editor Gary Parkinson on the managerial fun and games at the foot of the Premier League... This season's Premier League relegation battle has veered into an It's a Knockout of competitive...
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Thursday 23 February 2012, 13:05
Interim manager Stuart Pearce's England squad has been met with a wave of indifference. For all the overexcited tabloid-TV talk of calling up "inexperienced" players, and a few respectful...
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Monday 20 February 2012, 15:19
We at FourFourTwo have heard news of a disturbing matter from two different sources in the past week. We have been told, first by a student and then by a police officer, that there is a man in the Sheffield...
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Friday 17 February 2012, 16:30
In an exclusive preview of his monthly FourFourTwo magazine column, Michel Salgado gives his own insight into the recent racism rows involving Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea, QPR – and eventually...
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Monday 13 February 2012, 14:09
RESULTS (click team name for web-wide club news feed) Sat 11 Feb Manchester United 2-1 Liverpool ; Blackburn Rovers 3-2 Queens Park Rangers ; Bolton Wanderers 1-2 Wigan Athletic ; Everton 2-0 Chelsea ;...
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Friday 10 February 2012, 14:54
FourFourTwo.com editor Gary Parkinson on the farce and fiasco that has surrounded the English national football team in recent days... The departure of Fabio Capello was a domino-topple of wrongness. John...
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Thursday 09 February 2012, 16:01
Wembley, Soccer Aid 2008: It's The Artful Dodger feat. Craig David . Old Knappsy subs on Southampton's finest export (yes, Theo, really)
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Tuesday 07 February 2012, 10:30
It seems like only last week we were singing the praises of the February issue of FourFourTwo , but already the next magazine has hit the shelves – and the March edition is another cracker . But for those...
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Monday 06 February 2012, 15:30
Wondering who'll be in the England squad for the summer's inevitably successful jaunt to Poland and Ukraine? So is Fabio Capello, if this morning's papers are to be believed. Fortunately, we've...
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Monday 06 February 2012, 12:44
RESULTS (click team name for web-wide club news feed) Sat 4 Feb Arsenal 7-1 Blackburn Rovers ; Norwich City 2-0 Bolton Wanderers ; Queens Park Rangers 1-2 Wolverhampton Wanderers ; Stoke City 0-1 Sunderland...
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Friday 03 February 2012, 15:39
Manchester City’s players took time away from their preparations for Saturdays match with Fulham to indulge in what the Americans call ‘football.’ Ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl between the New York Giants...
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Friday 03 February 2012, 14:23
In the new FourFourTwo – out now, folks – we profile the work of Middlesbrough fan and artist Steve Welsh. A former cartoonist for iconic fanzine Fly Me To The Moon , Welsh set up MiniBoro.com to collate...
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Thursday 02 February 2012, 12:35
Midweek delight and derision from Mark Booth , with a little bonus moaning at the end from Gary Parkinson ... RESULTS (click team name for web-wide club news feed) Tue Jan 31 Everton 1-0 Manchester City...
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Wednesday 01 February 2012, 11:18
The evenings are slowly getting lighter and the Champions League knockout stages are inching closer. But right now, the FourFourTwo March edition is on the shelves – and do we have a story for you... Could...
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Wednesday 25 January 2012, 11:46
So you've finished the February 2012 issue – on sale now – and you're thinking, "Well, that was a good read – but you know what? I want more." We hear you, brother/sister. Take a look...
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Tuesday 24 January 2012, 15:54
Forget the bookies or a game of blackjack at the back of the bus. The modern-day footballer gets his off-field kicks on the felt. For the March 2011 issue, Steve Hill dug out his smartest suit to investigate...
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Monday 23 January 2012, 11:48
Who left their mark and who hit the skids this Premier League weekend? Mark Booth investigates RESULTS (click team name for web-wide club news feed) Sat 21 Jan Norwich City 0-0 Chelsea ; Everton 1-1 Blackburn...
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Tuesday 17 January 2012, 10:22
Heroes Manchester City The DW stadium is hardly a fortress, but there’s no such thing as an easy three points when you’re without two of your most important players, as City were in the absence of Vincent...
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Friday 06 January 2012, 17:00
Who’d be on the Three Lions’ plane if the squad was picked today? Here’s your starter for 23, players in descending order of certainty to travel and/or 'undroppability'... 1 Joe Hart (Manchester...
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Wednesday 04 January 2012, 07:30
Our New Year’s Resolution at FourFourTwo Towers was to give you more (and to try and not get so worked up about the state of public transport) – so here goes. In our new February 2012 issue, now on sale...
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Monday 19 December 2011, 11:45
FourFourTwo recently received an email from a Mr Steve James, who proposed the Premier League and La Liga should face off in something of an all-star match, but with a catch. No club would be represented...
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Wednesday 14 December 2011, 10:30
As you may well be aware, this month’s issue of FourFourTwo magazine includes our take on the Best 100 Players in the World . The selection process wasn’t easy (as mag editor David Hall explained last...
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Tuesday 13 December 2011, 10:30
FourFourTwo's James Maw makes with the ratings, as we round up another weekend of red hot, steamy, hardcore Premier League action. Mmmmm, sexy... CHELSEA 9.0 (W 2-1, Man City A) After half-an-hour...
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Monday 12 December 2011, 12:30
In 1981, Peter Hooton founded a groundbreaking fanzine in Liverpool called The End . Here he explains how he helped start a revolution in football media The idea for The End came well before the explosion...
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Friday 09 December 2011, 15:28
The January 2012 issue of FourFourTwo is out now , and positively bursting with fantastic features, sensational stories and exciting exclusives. For us, that's not enough – we want to give you more...
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Wednesday 07 December 2011, 10:20
At last, the issue of FourFourTwo you’ve all been waiting for. Yes, it’s that time of year again: the world’s biggest football magazine picks the 100 Best Players from around the world. We’ve got goosebumps...
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Wednesday 30 November 2011, 13:06
We're big fans of Blackburn Rovers midfielder David Dunn's beard. And it sort of reminds us of somebody... Sadly, we're told Venky's don't do a cow pie. Football's worst lookalikes...
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Tuesday 29 November 2011, 08:30
FourFourTwo's James Maw is the man with the scores after another madcap week of turbulent top-flight t....errrrm.....football TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 8.5 (W 3-1, West Brom A) There's no doubt Spurs are...
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Monday 28 November 2011, 13:26
The Premier League Legends were in Barbados this June to play in a 7-a-side tournament and meet old friends and foes over a dark rum and coke. I was there to work. Well, sort of. When you tell your wife...
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Monday 28 November 2011, 10:00
Yes, it’s back. For a fifth year, we at FourFourTwo have put our heads together to present you with our take on which 100 individuals are truly the greatest players in the world right now. It hasn’t been...
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Wednesday 23 November 2011, 14:06
We couldn't help but notice, upon nosing through pictures of Barcelona's recently redeveloped La Masia academy, that the beds are rather tiddly, which perhaps explains a lot. You're not going...
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Tuesday 22 November 2011, 09:00
FourFourTwo's James Maw rates the weekend's Premier League action, as Chelsea stumble to another home defeat and Manchester City march on... Manchester City 8.5 (W 3-1, Newcastle H) Mancini’s side...
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Monday 21 November 2011, 10:08
Heroes Liverpool After his second successive win there, Stamford Bridge is becoming something of a happy hunting ground for Kenny Dalglish. The match itself was a throwback to ‘Big Four’ clashes of yore...
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Friday 11 November 2011, 11:34
An economist at the University of Portsmouth has recommended that Premier League clubs televise more games, as it would result in far greater TV revenue at the cost of only a slight decrease in match-day...
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Monday 07 November 2011, 14:22
Bolton 9 (W 5-0, Stoke H) The Trotters busted the ghosts of last season's FA Cup semi-final thumping by reversing the score on the side who beat them at Wembley in April. In doing so, they won only...
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Thursday 03 November 2011, 10:37
The December 2011 issue of FourFourTwo ( out now ) is packed with fascinating features and illuminating interviews, but we know that you want more. Of course you do. And you’re right to demand it. And...
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Wednesday 02 November 2011, 11:34
The weather’s getting colder and the nights are drawing in, but FourFourTwo is as sizzling as ever. In our brand new December issue, out now , we have exclusive interviews with the Premier League’s hottest...
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Tuesday 01 November 2011, 15:30
As 39 more goals fly in across thecountry, Charlie Scott runs the rule over the latest top flight action... Arsenal 9 (W 5-3, Chelsea A) Arsenal have now lost just one of their last nine in all competitions...
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Friday 28 October 2011, 13:00
They say opposites attract, and football is no different. The history of the game is littered with successful partnerships consisting of players not cut from the same cloth – be it physically or technically...
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Wednesday 26 October 2011, 14:18
When Steve McClaren was the England manager, he was in a perpetual struggle with the size of the task entrusted to him. He failed to adjust to the pressure placed upon him and was incapable of adapting...
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Monday 24 October 2011, 16:30
As the delightfully bonkers 2011/12 season countinues to rumble on in Premier League town, FourFourTwo's James Maw names the super stars and ne'er do wells of match day nine... HEROES Manchester...
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Monday 24 October 2011, 08:30
FourFourTwo.com's Christopher Cox runs his eye over the weekend's efforts in the Premier League... Manchester City – 10 (Man Utd A, W 6–1) Quite extraordinary, thoroughly deserved and highly entertaining...
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Friday 21 October 2011, 15:36
1) Young guns fire at old pots Arsenal hosting Stoke this weekend pits the Premier League’s greenhorns against its gnarly old veterans. Averaging 24 years of age, Arsenal have started 13 different players...
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Wednesday 19 October 2011, 14:45
As Wayne Rooney returns to making headlines for the right reason with two Champions League goals against Otelul Galati, Declan Warrington explains why the Manchester United star must be included in Fabio...
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Monday 17 October 2011, 12:36
Another Premier League weekend, another pantomime parade of goodies and baddies. Mark Booth cheers and boos HEROES Anthony Pilkington It will have felt like a long international break for Anthony Pilkington...
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Monday 17 October 2011, 11:30
FFT's Christopher Cox runs his eye over the weekend's efforts in the Premier League Manchester City 8.5 (W 4-1, Aston Villa H) Predictable but impressive win, despite the lack of a clean sheet...
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Friday 14 October 2011, 12:19
1) Ivor Lott 1-2 Tony Broke It's the haves vs the have-nots at Stamford Bridge this weekend as Chelsea host Everton. However, as in the Ivor Lott & Tony Broke comic strips of yore, the well-heeled...
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Wednesday 05 October 2011, 09:00
Below you’ll find a rather interesting league table. It shows the price that 10 Premier League club owners have paid for each and every point their club has won since they took over. Take a look… So how...
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Wednesday 05 October 2011, 08:30
So the FourFourTwo.com Football Rich List is out. How do we do it? Is it as easy as ringing up Becks and the boys and asking how they're rolling? Of course not. (For a start, Rio would probably merk...
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Wednesday 05 October 2011, 08:00
We don’t know if you’ve heard, but there’s a bit of noise coming from Manchester this season. For the first time in over 40 years, United and City are locked in a meaningful battle – and we have the full...
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Monday 03 October 2011, 16:30
FourFourTwo.com features editor James Maw names the boys who 'done good' and shames those who...didn't HEROES Roberto Mancini & Mario Balotelli The Italian’s decision to make five changes...
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Friday 30 September 2011, 16:00
1) Willy and Manu will miss out on making history With Spurs defender William Gallas set to miss Sunday’s meeting with former club Arsenal, he and new Tottenham teammate Emmanuel Adebayor will miss out...
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Thursday 29 September 2011, 12:32
"I won't be needing this..." See, Carlos Tevez isn't all bad. Despite refusing to appear in Manchester City's Champions League defeat to Bayern Munich, he was still willing to do...
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Tuesday 27 September 2011, 15:19
Neil Warnock has never been a man to mince his words. That’s why, even after lingering for a good hour inside the surprisingly swish Loftus Road media suite in the wake of QPR’s dramatic 1-1 draw with...
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Tuesday 27 September 2011, 09:30
FourFourTwo.com's James Maw attributes fairly arbitrary ratings to each of the Premier League's 20 clubs on the basis of their performances this weekend - just to keep himself busy... CHELSEA 8...
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Monday 26 September 2011, 12:25
As City return to winning ways, United make their first slip and Arsenal actually win a football match, Mark Booth runs through the weekend's Premier League goodies and baddies... HEROES Alan Pardew...
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Friday 23 September 2011, 14:06
1) Pride comes before a fall for promoted clubs Last weekend all three Premier League newbies won their games – for the first time since February 10, 2007. That day Reading defeated Aston Villa, Sheffield...
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Thursday 22 September 2011, 14:12
A frankly bizarre video featuring your friend and ours, Mr Mourinho, prancing about with a chair and pointing at stuff for some reason... No, we don't get it either....
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Monday 19 September 2011, 17:34
FourFourTwo.com's James Maw rates (and slates) the Premier League's 20 clubs on the basis of their performances this weekend... TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 9 (W 4-0, Liverpool H) Don’t let the two red cards...
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Monday 19 September 2011, 10:12
Who rocked and who shocked in the Premier League this weekend? Mark Booth hands out the bouquets and brickbats HEROES The Premier League Sometimes, just sometimes, the BestLeagueInTheWorld justifies the...
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Friday 16 September 2011, 14:20
1) Holt and Davies set for foul-off Last weekend Kevin Davies became the second player in the history of the Premier League to collect 100 yellow cards, joining fellow foul-finder Lee Bowyer. Davies has...
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Friday 16 September 2011, 13:00
"Don’t do it, chums! DON’T throw soil, cinders, clinkers, stones, bricks, bottles, cups, fireworks or other kinds of explosives, apples, oranges, etc. on the playing pitch during or after the match...
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Thursday 15 September 2011, 16:18
It’s safe to say the return of the Europa League this week is generally likely to have been met with little more than a half interested raising of eyebrows. The standing of Europe’s secondary competition...
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Tuesday 13 September 2011, 11:22
A bevy of busty maidens are sitting around a lunch table, gossiping like a brood of clucking hens. Oblivious to the flesh on show, a battalion of Roman centurions – one of whom is chatting away in his...
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Monday 12 September 2011, 22:00
FourFourTwo's Huw Davies allocates the averages for this weekend's Premier League performances... MANCHESTER UNITED 9 (W 5-0, Bolton A) A generous scoreline, yes, but United are already looking...
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Monday 12 September 2011, 16:07
Rounding up the weekend's Premier League victors and varmints... HEROES Sergio Aguero While the Argentina forward’s speedy assimilation into Premier League life surprised few pundits outside Isleworth...
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Friday 09 September 2011, 12:16
1) Contrite Tractors trundle to the seaside You can tell there's a recession on if clubs are feeling contrition toward their "customers". Arsenal have apologised for their abject annihilation...
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Tuesday 06 September 2011, 13:54
Irish warehouse operative Paul Ring crosses the globe in the hope of finding an answer to the game's biggest question... Have you ever had a question that just keeps nagging away at you? Ever had one...
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Friday 02 September 2011, 14:01
Kris Heneage speaks to a young player left looking for a club after being let go over the summer... Three weeks ago, Cesc Fabregas departed England and returned home to Barcelona - he leaves the country...
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Tuesday 30 August 2011, 10:18
FourFourTwo.com's James Maw plays the numbers game following a breathtaking weekend of Premier League action... Manchester City 9.5 (W 5-1, Spurs A) Although Spurs may have played into their hands...
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Tuesday 30 August 2011, 08:30
FourFourTwo.com's man in sunny Sussex Mark Booth runs the rule over a weekend of Premier League action that will live long in the memory for anybody who wasn't at Swansea vs Sunderland... Heroes...
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Friday 26 August 2011, 13:18
The season’s underway and the Champions League is gathering speed – so what else would you expect from FourFourTwo’s October issue other than a Champions League special and an exclusive interview with...
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Friday 26 August 2011, 13:00
North London has the edge over Manchester While things may be looking rosy for the two big Manchester clubs, as North London's Premier pair fret over problems on and off the pitch, it's Spurs and...
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Tuesday 23 August 2011, 09:30
FourFourTwo.com editor Gary Parkinson allocates the averages for this weekend's Premier League performances... MAN UNITED 8.5 (W 3-0, Spurs H) Dig the new breed. Yet again youth gets its head and rewards...
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Monday 22 August 2011, 12:30
The goodies and the goofers from the weekend's Premier League action, as rated by James Maw HEROES David Silva As the half the civilised world fell over themselves desperately trying to squeeze Sergio...
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Friday 19 August 2011, 10:21
1. Expect Hansen's head to shake about Swansea vs Wigan Pre-match attention will be on Roberto "Bob Martin" Martinez as he makes his first return to Swansea, but focus will soon switch to...
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Tuesday 16 August 2011, 16:57
The professional football season is back, and ready to follow in its wake are millions of keen part-timers. From amateur and semi-pro players already embarking on pre-season training to sofa-dwellers who...
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Tuesday 16 August 2011, 09:00
FourFourTwo.com editor Gary Parkinson rates the 18 teams fortunate enough to play a Premier League match this weekend... WOLVES 8 Hadn't beaten Blackburn in six but such records may tumble this season...
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Monday 15 August 2011, 12:33
James Maw is back on the beat bringing you the best and worst of this weekend's Premier League action HEROES Asmir Begovic Although Chelsea’s Fernando Torres was rather charitably handed the Man of...
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Friday 12 August 2011, 13:25
Jeff Stelling Sky Sports' beating heart and pulsing brain The title race will be closer than last season, but Manchester United have already struck a real psychological blow by beating City in the...
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Friday 12 August 2011, 12:18
1. Rioting threatens stately Villa home Aston Villa will be glad their game at Fulham has the go-ahead despite the rioting. They wouldn’t want to start their season next weekend against Blackburn at Villa...
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Friday 05 August 2011, 10:32
1. Pride comes before... After waiting 35 years for a trophy, Man City are chasing their second in three months against their neighbours in the Community Shield. Victory would doubtless be heralded as...
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Tuesday 02 August 2011, 17:18
In this month's FourFourTwo we interview five of the finest fakes on Twitter, from Berbatov to Blatter. This week on FourFourTwo.com we'll bring you the full interviews – starting with FIFA chief...
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Monday 01 August 2011, 17:26
In this month's FourFourTwo we interview five of the finest fakes on Twitter, from Berbatov to Blatter. This week on FourFourTwo.com we'll bring you the full interviews – starting with everyone's...
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Friday 29 July 2011, 14:10
Argentine star and new Manchester City signing Sergio 'Kun' Aguero speaks to FourFourTwo back in January 2010 about his ambitions... "What would I be if I wasn't a footballer?" Sergio...
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Thursday 28 July 2011, 19:26
What's that smell in the air? It's excitement. Because the new season is upon us, and nothing says "new season" like the legendary, world-famous FourFourTwo Season Preview . Since its...
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Thursday 28 July 2011, 18:46
The new season is upon us and we're so excited that we're talking about everything at once. We look at past, present and future with an exclusive insight into the deadliest strike partnership in...
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Monday 25 July 2011, 16:56
Most managers who had just taken a country of only 3.5 million people to the World Cup semi-finals at the age of 63 would have called it a day - they would have assumed the only way was down. But Oscar...
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Thursday 21 July 2011, 20:16
As Uruguay and Paraguay face off on Sunday night, both sides will know that even if they win, neither are likely to be the enduring story of this Copa America. It’s a shame, and quite unjust, but what...
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Tuesday 19 July 2011, 16:59
There was a delicious irony in Carlos Tevez’ penalty miss in Argentina’s shoot-out defeat to Uruguay on Saturday. ‘El Apache’ or ‘Carlitos’, call him what you want, the ongoing saga surrounding him in...
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Monday 18 July 2011, 09:16
With the tournament’s most fancied sides having stumbled through to the quarter-finals, it was expected that they would learn their lessons and finally saunter stylishly into the last four. Indeed, in...
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Thursday 14 July 2011, 15:58
English football apologists sometimes talk of the pressure of history weighing heavily on the shoulders of the current squad, preventing them from playing with any freedom or even happiness. Now, imagine...
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Tuesday 12 July 2011, 15:02
While he may have been criticised for not partaking in the national anthem, Lionel Messi was certainly on song in his new role, as Argentina finally clicked into gear. With his own employment and Argentina...
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Tuesday 12 July 2011, 10:00
Back in July 2008, FourFourTwo introduced a Balkan schemer by the name of Luka Modric. In the light of current transfer rumours, what he had to say then is very interesting – not least the words, "big...
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Monday 11 July 2011, 17:14
A lot has been said about the early rounds of this year’s Copa America, most of it criticism of the lack of goals thus far. It’s barely necessary to remind people that such a dearth is inevitable at this...
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Tuesday 05 July 2011, 16:11
Vexing: The best adjective to describe what has happened in the first round of games in the 2011 Copa America. The curious sequence of events commenced late on Friday night, as Argentina - the hosts and...
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Friday 01 July 2011, 16:00
A quarter of professional players are non-white, so why are there only two black managers at the 92 League clubs? Reporter Richard Woodall puts some serious questions to the big names. It’s a statistic...
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Wednesday 29 June 2011, 09:28
As the August issue of FourFourTwo hits the shelves, Jamie Dickenson explains why you should buy it... What drives the King of Catalonia? We delve deep into the genius of Pep Guardiola to bring you an...
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Friday 24 June 2011, 10:30
To complete our week marking the 15th anniversary of Euro 96, here's a piece from Jonathan Wilson looking back at a summer which wasn't always halcyon, but was eventually unforgettable There are...
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Thursday 23 June 2011, 10:30
Continuing our series marking 15 years since Euro 96. In summer 2008, FourFourTwo asked several of the key figures for their memories. Read on... The Manager: Terry Venables "I wanted to do something...
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Wednesday 22 June 2011, 11:03
It's 15 years since Euro 96, and here's more from FourFourTwo's contemporary coverage. Thanks to England's demolition of the Dutch, Scotland were in the last eight for 16 minutes – and...
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Tuesday 21 June 2011, 10:30
It was the first major tournament on these isles in 30 years: you may recall that football was "coming home". The then FourFourTwo editor Paul Simpson set out to watch it with the fans… Can't...
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Monday 20 June 2011, 10:30
It's 15 years since Euro 96, so we thought we'd spend a week looking back at the last major tournament held on these shores, with the help of FourFourTwo 's unparalleled archive. For instance...
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Friday 03 June 2011, 08:30
We wrap up a week of 'rating and slating' on FourFourTwo.com with a look at the five teams ranked lowest when it comes to that darned alphabet. Our ratings are a reflection of pre-season expectations...
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Thursday 02 June 2011, 12:30
It's time for the third installment of FourFourTwo.com 's Premier League report cards. Today we look at four teams who had a very good season, and one who did alright for six months or so... Our...
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Wednesday 01 June 2011, 11:17
The Samba Kings are dead; long live the Samba Kings. That’s the main focus of the new July issue of FourFourTwo , out in all good stores – and some distinctly average ones – from today. What’s happened...
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Wednesday 01 June 2011, 10:00
We continue our analysis of the Premier League season with a look at five more sides - all of whom seem to have largely had a 'season of two halves'... Bolton Wanderers League position: 14th -...
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Tuesday 31 May 2011, 11:53
With the 2010/11 season now done and dusted, FourFourTwo.com assesses the campaigns of the Premier League's 20 clubs, starting with Arsenal, Aston Villa, Birmingham, Blackburn and Blackpool. Our ratings...
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Friday 27 May 2011, 11:45
1. Wembley final? The President's out, then... Suspected West Ham fan Barack Obama will be out of the country by the Champions League final, but it can't be good news for him that the showpiece...
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Friday 20 May 2011, 16:01
With 'Survival Sunday' looming, Vithushan Ehantharajah and David Jamieson look back on some of the Premier League's most memorable final day relegation tussles... 1992/93 - Oldham survive as...
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Friday 20 May 2011, 15:07
As the Premier League's 'Survival Sunday' looms, FourFourTwo.com editor Gary Parkinson salutes the unpredictable... For once, the Skyperbole may be justified. With a five-way last-day showdown...
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Friday 20 May 2011, 13:48
1. The Tangerine dream: Party like it's 2002 Should Blackpool stay up this season, it will be only the second time in 22 years that none of the three newly-promoted teams have been relegated at the...
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Friday 20 May 2011, 13:40
So it’s come to this: each team has played 37 matches, 3,330 minutes of football and run the distance to the moon and back (probably), and it all rests to a final-frame shootout. The league title is wrapped...
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Monday 16 May 2011, 15:23
HEROES Sir Alex Ferguson And so the ‘worst Manchester United team in years’ are champions of English football with a game to spare – not bad going for a team some pundits were tipping to finish outside...
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Friday 13 May 2011, 13:34
1. Don't wish for a fairytale start While romantics may hope Stoke break the deadlock to bring the FA Cup Final to life, an early Potters strike could have the opposite effect: if Pulis's men score...
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Friday 13 May 2011, 13:07
It’s the penultimate weekend and sneaky plum time if you’re in the bottom three, but the Premier League plays second fiddle to the FA Cup Final this weekend – or at least it should do… But who gives a...
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Friday 06 May 2011, 12:55
Last weekend, US special forces killed Osama Bin Laden. In the February 2008 issue of FourFourTwo , Paul Simpson explored the connections between Bin Laden, terrorism, Arsenal – and a bizarre plot targeting...
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Friday 06 May 2011, 12:32
1. Sylvan Ebanks-Blake is better than Ronaldo …and Torres, and Tevez, and Berbatov. And he knocks Defoe into a cocked hat. For the latest issue of FourFourTwo – out now – we asked dataphiles Opta to compare...
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Wednesday 04 May 2011, 09:30
Ever noticed that as time goes by, footballers start looking younger? It’s not just you. But don’t fight it – feel it, with FourFourTwo ’s celebration of the 20 best under-20 players in the world, in the...
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Tuesday 03 May 2011, 12:07
Guest writer Ben Collins mourns some bad decisions as Stockport County's 100-year run in the Football League comes to an end. It is never nice to see a grown man cry. And they were crying on and off...
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Thursday 28 April 2011, 17:14
Who cares about the royal wedding? We’ve got plenty of fascinating match-ups in the Premier League, and they each hold more interest than a bunch of inbreds distracting us while the economy crumbles and...
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Thursday 21 April 2011, 15:52
Hello everyone. Apologies for the lack of blog last week – there was an incident involving bears, trees and Mansfield Town. But we’re back now, and to mix it up we’re using full team names in the title...
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Thursday 21 April 2011, 14:54
1. Roy Hodgson is king of the road If West Brom can win at Tottenham on Saturday, Roy Hodgson will have already won more away games with The Baggies than he did during the entirety of his ill-fated stint...
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Thursday 14 April 2011, 12:27
With graduates such as Wayne Rooney, Francis Jeffers, James Vaughan and Victor Anichebe, Everton's academy is well respected for producing promising young strikers. It's something that has not...
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Thursday 14 April 2011, 11:57
FourFourTwo.com's man in the North East Kristan Heneage on Middlesbrough's struggles adapting to life in the Championship... In May 2006 Middlesbrough were playing Sevilla in the UEFA Cup Final...
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Monday 11 April 2011, 11:38
While Liverpool's recent resurgence has largely been credited to Kenny Dalglish, coach Steve Clarke has also played a huge part in the turnaround - Owain Jones learns more about Kenny's right-hand...
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Friday 08 April 2011, 16:27
So hang on – what you’re saying is, this blog has to preview and predict every Premier League game this weekend without swearing even once? This’ll be short. SATURDAY Wolves v Everton (12.45pm, Sky Sports...
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Friday 08 April 2011, 13:41
The Carling Cup is seen by many English clubs as a playground for developing their best young talent. But for this year's winners, Birmingham City , top quality home grown prospects have been hard...
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Friday 08 April 2011, 11:40
1. Torres has until half-time to avoid surpassing Sutton Fernando Torres certainly hasn't enjoyed a particularly emphatic start to his Chelsea career – and he's not far from enduring a worse start...
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Wednesday 06 April 2011, 12:36
Spring has sprung at last – a time for good weather, sugary pagan rituals and, above all, new beginnings. Yes, the May issue of FourFourTwo is hitting the shelves with a look inside the new Liverpool....
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Tuesday 05 April 2011, 12:35
Visitors to Gelsenkirchen could be forgiven for thinking Schalke’s museum is another ubiquitous branch of PC World in the Ruhr. Space is afforded to medals, shirts and programmes, as one would expect ...
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Monday 04 April 2011, 12:20
James Maw casts aspersions and acclamations form the weekend's Premier League action... HEROES Wayne Rooney From the moment the England international’s 65th minute free-kick snuck inside Rob Green...
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Friday 01 April 2011, 13:54
It’s the time when the season’s pattern becomes clearly defined: when the champions look to surge into an unsurpassable lead, and when teams likely to go down slip away from the pack. So you’d think, anyway...
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Thursday 31 March 2011, 13:54
“Shape! Shape! Shape!” Every week, the manager and the head coach berate their players with a different, repeated piece of advice from the stands. A few months ago, the chant of “Second ball!” was seldom...
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Thursday 31 March 2011, 10:31
Dutch football blogger Mohamed Moallim makes his FFT.com debut by looking ahead to this weekend's top-of-the-table clash in the Eredivisie With only a point separating the Eredivisie’s current top...
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Thursday 24 March 2011, 12:50
Champions magazine editor Paul Simpson has a few questions... Life is full of questions. Why do so many offers on TV ads not apply to people in Northern Ireland – and what does it do to the Northern Irish...
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Tuesday 22 March 2011, 14:27
FourFourTwo.com's man in the Northeast Kristan Heneage visits the frontline over a ferocious non-league derby It’s 12:30 and I’m in the car park of a Durham sixth form College, a Geographical mid-point...
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Friday 18 March 2011, 16:10
Who cares about the Champions League anyway? We have the battle for next season’s Champions League to care about! And, uh, the Europa League - but we don’t talk about that any more in dear old Blighty...
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Thursday 17 March 2011, 23:15
The ongoing Japanese disaster is a matter much bigger than football, but three fans have set up a very interesting tribute aimed at British fans, clubs – and fans of esoteric music. There are four J-League...
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Monday 14 March 2011, 09:30
Just because you’re a professional footballer, doesn’t mean you can always go out and do the things you want to do. This certainly applies to England striker Darren Bent – currently stuck living in a hotel...
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Thursday 10 March 2011, 15:05
The Black Cats' path could go either way, reports Kristan Heneage You'll struggle to find a Sunderland fan that isn't happy with the season so far. They are currently sitting in the top half...
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Wednesday 09 March 2011, 13:32
The new FourFourTwo is in part our annual giant celebration of the Football League, including the Football League Awards. (It's out now – details here .) However, we've also produced a supplement...
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Tuesday 08 March 2011, 09:28
Safe-for-work streaker action now, as a mankini-wearing Borat impersonator invades the pitch at Havant & Waterlooville v Dorchester. After the usual larking about, odd things start to happen. But are...
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Monday 07 March 2011, 16:14
We know you love FourFourTwo.com, in all its online glory. But don’t miss out on having the April edition of FourFourTwo magazine in your delighted fingers. As usual we have features aplenty, but there...
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Friday 04 March 2011, 14:16
What a great weekend for English top-flight football, cracking fixtures, anything could happen, etc. etc. No, seriously, if this blogger had to recommend one weekend of the Premier League season for you...
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Wednesday 02 March 2011, 11:13
After some fascinating results in the First Round of the one-off Nicknames Knockout tournament , it’s on to Round 2... and 3, 4, 5 and 6, also known as the last 16, quarter-finals, semis and final. For...
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Tuesday 01 March 2011, 11:12
Thanks to FourFourTwo's Huw Davies having a malarial nightmare, you can test your nickname knowledge. The answers are under the links. The year is 2012. After introducing seeding for the FA Cup, League...
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Monday 28 February 2011, 13:13
Just to forewarn you, if you were expecting this to be a Carling Cup Special - it ain't. This is strictly a Premier League Heroes and Villains blog. If you want Carling Cup Heroes & Villains, check...
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Saturday 26 February 2011, 10:00
With the Carling Cup final between Arsenal and Birmingham City taking place at Wembley on Sunday, FourFourTwo Performance's Ben Welch assesses exactly how the season's first major final will affect...
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Friday 25 February 2011, 14:11
Anyone else have that Friday feeling? This blogger does, and it’s lifted yet further by a tantalising weekend of Premier League Fixtures. Everton-Sunderland, Newcastle-Bolton and Wolves-Blackpool should...
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Thursday 24 February 2011, 10:29
Hats off to Chile under-20 defender Bryan Carrasco for coming up with something truly unique in his side's clash with Ecuador U20...
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Tuesday 22 February 2011, 16:12
There's a reason they call it the beautiful game. Last year, FourFourTwo invited fans and professional photographers to capture the beautiful game in all its glory. The judging panel included FourFourTwo...
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Wednesday 16 February 2011, 16:30
"A point at Anfield? It's daylight robbery, I tells ya..." DISCLAIMER: As far as FFT.com is aware, Gary Caldwell has never actually robbed a bank.
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Tuesday 15 February 2011, 16:44
Our Photoshop "experts" have had their wicked way with the English Premier League shirts, displayed below. How many of the missing sponsors can you name? And if it's only about half, as it...
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Tuesday 15 February 2011, 11:31
FourFourTwo.com features editor James Maw reveals the (extended) weekend's Premier League goodies and baddies HEROES Chris Smalling & Nani The headlines and highlight reels may have been dominated...
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Monday 14 February 2011, 15:22
Watching 3DTV has turned FourFourTwo magazine editor David Hall not so much square-eyed as cube-eyed... Like many people working in this football lark, the advent of 3D in the arena of televisual broadcasting...
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Friday 11 February 2011, 17:05
The Champions League is nearly upon us again (mumble mumble, and, uh, the Europa League as well, mumble mumble), but will the big boys rest their top boys for these Premier League clashes? Not likely....
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Thursday 10 February 2011, 16:17
Our March issue is hitting the shelves as we write this, and you won’t want to miss out. Here’s why you should get it, NOW ... Title race special We’ve got ourselves all excited about this season’s Premier...
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Monday 07 February 2011, 15:10
Saturday's FA Trophy match between Droylsden and Blyth Spartans saw an amazing oversight by the match officials, when Droylsden’s Ciaran Kilheeney punched a 34th minute Michael Tait header off the...
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Monday 07 February 2011, 11:42
FourFourTwo.com features editor James Maw nominates the weekend's top-flight goodies and baddies... HEROES Kenny Dalglish Hands up, those who thought Dalglish had spent too long ‘out of the game’ to...
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Friday 04 February 2011, 16:35
All right, we're running late so let’s get on with it... SATURDAY Stoke v Sunderland (12.45pm, Sky Sports 2 & HD2) It’s all change in the Stoke line-up: cross-and-finish-duo Matthew Etherington...
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Thursday 03 February 2011, 11:40
Dateline: 15 December 2010, London Colney training ground. Arsenal goalkeeper Lukas Fabianksi apparently takes unusual steps to avoid injury by dressing as Robocop. Sadly for him, he didn't wear it...
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Tuesday 01 February 2011, 15:33
Pinch, punch, first of the month, and you feel that pseudo-rhyme may be on the lips of many a Premier League manager as he kicks his director of football and/or chairman square in the groin for failing...
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Tuesday 25 January 2011, 21:50
Sky Sports presenter Richard Keys could be about to join old mucker Andy Gray in the dole queue, after yet another video featuring lewd comments was posted on YouTube on Tuesday evening. Somebody at Sky...
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Tuesday 25 January 2011, 16:40
Our man Terry Duffelen takes a break from all things Bundesliga-shaped to check out a non-league club with one of the most curious grounds in football... Unless you're a Palace supporter, it is hard...
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Monday 24 January 2011, 12:38
Needing, as you do, a picture of Peter Bonetti, we noticed these two consecutive images on the Press Association's search engine. Perhaps it was the spirit of punk floating down the King's Road...
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Monday 24 January 2011, 12:28
Hello, hello - it’s good to be back, it’s good to be back. No, not Gary Glitter - he’s never coming back - rather Heroes and Villains , which makes its long-awaited return to FourFourTwo.com following...
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Friday 21 January 2011, 15:41
On paper it isn’t a cracking weekend of Premier League action, but at least it goes on forever: previous cancellations mean the fixtures keep on coming all the way up until Wednesday. Hurrah! Football...
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Wednesday 19 January 2011, 11:10
It’s our 200th issue, with four different covers. And here are eight reasons why you should get it, NOW ! Ryan Giggs We sit down with the Welsh Wizard to chat about the evolution of football and how even...
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Tags: Ryan Giggs, Roberto Martinez, Luiz Felipe Scolari, Jermain Defoe, Rio Ferdinand, Danny Wilson, Darren Bent, Dimitar Berbatov, Alan Shearer, Javier Mascherano, Ashley Williams, Romario, Kevin Davies, Michel Salgado, Darren Purse, Jurgen Klinsmann, Charly Rexach, Phil Brown, Dave Whelan, Martin Palermo, Aad de Mos, Alfredo di Stefano, Mauro Silva, Lionel Messi, Andrew Amers-Morrison, Paul Jewell, Andy Morrison, Jose Luis Chilavert, Dennis Bergkamp, Gianluigi Buffon, Gaizka Mendieta, Paul Benson, David Hunt, Anthony Pilkington, Michael Gray, Graham Poll, Lee Dixon
Monday 17 January 2011, 13:47
Paul Simpson pays tribute to the Bolton and England legend, who has died in his beloved home town. Lean, hard as nails and as modest as they come, the great Nat Lofthouse could do three things very well...
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Friday 14 January 2011, 16:21
Quick quiz question: what links Wayne Rooney, Andres Iniesta, Fernando Torres, Ashley Cole, Jermain Defoe, Rio Ferdinand, Ibrahima Sonko, Graham Taylor, Iain Dowie and Matt Le Tissier? If you said ‘I’ve...
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Friday 14 January 2011, 14:43
Hang on, what’s this? A keyboard? What’s that then? Yes, after a break from blogging long enough for some 30-odd games to go largely unpredicted, your weekly diversion from the real world into rambling...
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Wednesday 29 December 2010, 13:00
The transfer window is upon us but not even the best wheeler-dealer could get you the world's 100 best players for under a fiver. No, for that sort of bargain, you'll have to get the new issue...
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Tags: Ryan Giggs, Arsene Wenger, Luis Suarez, Wayne Rooney, Gareth Bale, Xabi Alonso, Pele, Gus Poyet, Michel Salgado, Diego Forlan, Keisuke Honda, Darren Ward, Diego Milito, Juan Carlos Garrido, Gonzalo Higuain, Iker Casillas, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Marc Bircham, Frank McAvennie, Kevin Foley, Thomas Mueller, Wilfried Zaha, Tommy Gemmell, Gerard Pique, Geoff Thomas, Nicky Forster, Darren Purse, Ian Rush, Wesley Sneijder, Clarence Seedorf, Johnny Giles
Friday 17 December 2010, 12:46
Happily for many, tiresomely for some, it’s Christmaaaaas (thanks, Noddy). It’s also probably the only time footballers deserve the least, tiny, tiny bit of sympathy. Those based in England, at least....
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Tuesday 14 December 2010, 12:45
The (elongated) EPL weekend's goodies and baddies, evaluated by James Maw RESULTS Sat 11 Dec Aston Villa 2-1 West Bromwich Albion, Everton 0-0 Wigan Athletic, Fulham 0-0 Sunderland, Stoke City 0-1...
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Tags: Manchester United, Arsene Wenger, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Aston Villa, Arsenal, Newcastle United, Carlos Tevez, Didier Drogba, Rio Ferdinand, Wayne Rooney, Tottenham Hotspur, Pepe Reina, Blackpool, West Ham United, Andy Carroll, Robert Green, Joey Barton, Fernando Torres, Dimitar Berbatov, West Bromwich Albion, David Silva, Mario Balotelli, Heurelho Gomes, Nemanja Vidic, Ashley Young, Stewart Downing, Yaya Toure, DJ Campbell, Mark Albrighton, Fabrice Muamba, David N’Gog, Wojciech Szczesny, Lucas Leiva, Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Ryan Nelson
Friday 10 December 2010, 13:09
Job Application Form #67921 Name: Chris Hughton Age: 52 on Saturday Strengths: Doing the impossible, not being Alan Pardew. Weaknesses: Having hair like a badger, not being Alan Pardew. Reasons for dismissal...
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Wednesday 08 December 2010, 12:02
The news that Alan Pardew is now odds-on favourite to replace the harshly disposed of Chris Hughton as manager of Newcastle United reminded us of one of Pards' lowest moments. No, not the God-awful...
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Tags: Chelsea, Harry Redknapp, Manchester City, Marcel Desailly, Peter Crouch, Aston Villa, Newcastle United, Didier Drogba, Alan Pardew, Micah Richards, Michael Essien, John Motson, David Beckham, Garth Crooks, Tottenhamham Hotspur, Glenn Hoddle, Richard Keys, Rodney Marsh, Derby County, Ron Atkinson, Ched Evans, Stefan Kuntz, Stephen Bywater
Monday 06 December 2010, 12:36
The weekend's goodies and baddies, as assessed by James Maw RESULTS Sat 4 Dec Arsenal 2-1 Fulham, Birmingham City 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur, Blackburn Rovers 3-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers, Chelsea 1-1 Everton...
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Tags: Manchester United, Arsene Wenger, Chelsea, Fulham, Everton, Sunderland, David Moyes, Fabio Capello, Aston Villa, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, Lee Cattermole, Blackburn Rovers, West Ham United, Birmingham City, Paul Robinson, Tim Cahill, Peter Odemwingie, Mark Schwarzer, Chris Hughton, Alan Hutton, West Bromwich Albion, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Vedran Corluka, Phil Neville, Jermaine Beckford, Stoke City, Wigan Athletic, Leighton Baines, Samir Nasri, Cesc Fabregas, Avram Grant, Petr Cech, Scott Parker, Mohamed Diamé, Brede Hangeland, Ashley Cole, Aaron Hughes, Sol Campbell, David Murphy, Robin van Persie, Hendry Thomas
Friday 03 December 2010, 16:31
With the majority of the globe still seething, editor of Champions magazine Paul Simpson runs through a few telling figures... If you’re baffled, disgusted or just stunned by FIFA awarding World Cups to...
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Friday 03 December 2010, 15:08
No haikus this week and, to the lasting beneficial mental health of all of you, no rants about FIFA or the World Cup bidding system either. Suffice it to say that Russia, with its racism, homophobia and...
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Thursday 02 December 2010, 15:10
With FIFA this afternoon handing the right to host the 2018 World Cup to Russia, Damian Hall clears the lump from his throat - and lets rip... I’m not very patriotic. I’ve lived abroad long enough to have...
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Wednesday 01 December 2010, 14:21
The new issue of FourFourTwo is out now – and packed with enough stuff to get you through any snowmageddon... At home with Maradona… Possibly the best player ever. Almost certainly the most readable. Diego...
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Tags: Nani, Manchester United, Diego Maradona, Craig Burley, Real Madrid, Blackburn Rovers, Ben Foster, Wes Brown, Carl Robinson, Pele, Matt Le Tissier, Lee Trundle, Hearts, Sheffield United, Lazio, Marcus Bent, Gus Poyet, Anderlecht, Glen Johnson, Jody Craddock, David Seaman, Robert Earnshaw, Yuri Pudishev, Porto, Dejan Stankovic, Josh McQuoid, Hibernian, Louis van Gaal, Roma, Swansea City, Michel Salgado, Marseille, Diego Forlan, Atletico Madrid, Yuto Nagatomo, Danny Dichio, Rohan Ricketts, Benfica, Cardiff City, Paris St-Germain, Bruges
Tuesday 30 November 2010, 15:53
With the 2018 decision D-Day approaching, Richard Edwards speaks to the East Anglian who pulled back the Iron Curtain The race to host the World Cup is becoming more entertaining than the tournament itself...
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Monday 29 November 2010, 15:37
After a record-breakingly goaltastic Premier League weekend, James Maw sorts the wheat from the chuff... RESULTS Sat 27 Nov Aston Villa 2-4 Arsenal, Bolton Wanderers 2-2 Blackpool, Everton 1-4 West Bromwich...
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Tags: Manchester United, Chelsea, Everton, Mick McCarthy, Liverpool, Sunderland, David Moyes, Aston Villa, Arsenal, Newcastle United, Aaron Lennon, Wayne Rooney, Tottenham Hotspur, Marouane Chamakh, Tim Howard, Blackpool, Blackburn Rovers, West Ham United, Andy Carroll, Bolton Wanderers, Paul Robinson, Robert Green, Fernando Torres, Tim Cahill, Mauro Boselli, Dimitar Berbatov, West Bromwich Albion, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Gonzalo Jara, Chris Brunt, Steven Pienaar, Jermaine Beckford, Jack Wilshere, Wigan Athletic, Saloman Kalou, Kevin Davies, Lee Mason, Maxi Rodrigues, Joe Jordan, Sylvain Ebanks-Blake, Petr Cech, Paul Konchesky, Scott Parker, Steve Gohouri, Pascal Chimbonda, Mikel Arteta, Alex, Stephen Hunt
Friday 26 November 2010, 11:48
Although we always appreciate the multitudes of you who lend us your time to read our ramblings (we say 'lend', you aint getting it back), there have been complaints, mainly from the magical pixies...
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Tags: Chelsea, Wolves, Liverpool, Sunderland, Manchester City, Aston Villa, Arsenal, Newcastle United, Carlos Tevez, West Brom, Stuart Attwell, Emile Heskey, Manuel Almunia, James Perch, Michael Turner
Wednesday 24 November 2010, 13:01
Damian Hall explains why the fifth tier is more appealing than the top flight... 1. You Actually Matter Part of a 75,000-plus crowd at Old Trafford were you? Congratulations, but, and I mean this in the...
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Monday 22 November 2010, 14:04
Naming the goodies and shaming the baddies from the Premier League weekend with James Maw ... RESULTS Sat 20 Nov Arsenal 2-3 Tottenham Hotspur, Birmingham City 1-0 Chelsea, Blackpool 2-1 Wolverhampton...
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Tags: Manchester United, Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, Chelsea, Fulham, Sam Allardyce, Manchester City, Roberto Mancini, Roberto Martinez, Aston Villa, Arsenal, Newcastle United, Carlos Tevez, Rafael van der Vaart, Tottenham Hotspur, Blackpool, Blackburn Rovers, Sebastien Squillaci, Birmingham City, Bolton Wanderers, Paul Robinson, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Younes Kaboul, David Silva, William Gallas, Wigan Athletic, Samir Nasri, Ben Foster, Jo, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Johan Elmander, Hugo Rodellega, Brad Friedel, Owen Coyle, Rafael da Silva, Fabricio Coloccini, Lorent Koscielny, Cesc Febregas, Tim Krul, Yaya Toure, Luke Varney, Steven Taylor
Saturday 20 November 2010, 09:30
Here’s a kind of quiz. See if you can identify which England games these six observations relate to. 1. “The modern youngster must not only be thoroughly groomed in the skills of the game but have instilled...
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Friday 19 November 2010, 13:31
After more dullardry in midweek internationals, we’re back to the serious stuff; the real games of football, if you will, that actually matter. There are real life or death games this weekend. If West...
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Monday 15 November 2010, 13:35
Rounding up the baddies and bigging up the goodies from the weekend's Premier League action... RESULTS Sat 13 Nov Aston Villa 2-2 Manchester United, Manchester City 0-0 Birmingham City, Newcastle United...
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Tags: Nani, Manchester United, Arsene Wenger, Chelsea, Stoke, Wolves, Everton, Liverpool, Sunderland, Manchester City, Roberto Mancini, Peter Crouch, Aston Villa, Arsenal, Carlos Tevez, Tottenham Hotspur, Lee Cattermole, Blackburn Rovers, Sebastien Squillaci, Paul Merson, Jordan Henderson, Birmingham City, Bolton Wanderers, Steve Bruce, Paul Robinson, Asamoah Gyan, Danny Welbeck, Michael Turner, James Milner, Cesc Fabregas, Lukasz Fabianski, Wes Brown, Nedum Onouha, Alex Song, Branislav Ivanovic, Jo, Stuart Holden, Nemanja Vidic, Tony Pulis, Sylvain Distin, Louis Saha, Johan Elmander, Roque Santa Cruz, Marc Albrighton, Ashley Young, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Stewart Downing, Jon Walters, Federico Macheda, Johan Djourou, Gael Givet, Roman Pavlyuchenko, Ryan Babel
Friday 12 November 2010, 12:19
Relegation weekend, yeah? Because if you didn’t know, it’s a statistical fact that 97 per cent of Premier League relegation battles are actually settled on the second weekend of November: it’s these games...
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Thursday 11 November 2010, 16:43
If there’s one piece of media work that deserves a bit of credit this week, it’s Chelsea choosing to reveal only now that Didier Drogba has had malaria for a month (and that he’s better now). A month....
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Thursday 11 November 2010, 10:27
For this midweek only we’re flipping Heroes and Villains as, well, there weren’t really as many decent heroes as villains. Look, we don’t have to conform to your damn conventions... RESULTS Tue 9 Nov Stoke...
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Tags: Manchester United, Arsene Wenger, Chelsea, Fulham, Wolves, West Ham, Everton, Sunderland, Manchester City, Clint Dempsey, Aston Villa, Arsenal, Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Marouane Chamakh, Lee Cattermole, Blackpool, Blackburn Rovers, Birmingham City, Bolton Wanderers, Marouane Fellaini, Paul Robinson, Asamoah Gyan, Joey Barton, West Brom, Hatem Ben Arfa, Darren Bent, Luka Modric, Marcus Hahnemann, Jermaine Beckford, Stoke City, Cesc Fabregas, Jason Roberts, Alex Song, Mario Balotelli, Michael Essien, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Stephen Ward, Nicklas Bendtner, Nathan Delfouneso
Tuesday 09 November 2010, 15:49
And so to the floodlights. It's the only full midweek Premier League programme before Christmas, and these midweek sports specials - one for you older readers there - open a quickfire Premier League...
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Tags: Manchester United, Ryan Giggs, Arsene Wenger, Chelsea, Fulham, Harry Redknapp, West Ham, Everton, Mick McCarthy, Liverpool, Sunderland, Manchester City, Roberto Mancini, Aston Villa, Arsenal, Newcastle United, Didier Drogba, Wayne Rooney, Rafael van der Vaart, Tottenham Hotspur, Lee Cattermole, Blackpool, Blackburn Rovers, Birmingham City, Andy Carroll, Bolton Wanderers, Asamoah Gyan, Fernando Torres, Karl Henry, West Brom, Darren Bent, Chris Hughton, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Kenwyne Jones, Carlo Ancelotti, Stoke City, Wigan Athletic, Cesc Fabregas, Kevin Nolan, Avram Grant, Marlon Harewood, Michael Essien, Eric Cantona, Tony Pulis
Monday 08 November 2010, 10:21
The weekend's Premier League goodies and baddies... HEROES Fernando Torres If the proclamations that Fernando Torres was ’back’ following his goal against Blackburn two weeks ago seemed a trifle premature...
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Tags: Manchester United, Ryan Giggs, Chelsea, Fulham, Harry Redknapp, Stoke, Wolves, West Ham, Liverpool, Sunderland, Manchester City, Roberto Mancini, Fabio Capello, Peter Crouch, Real Madrid, Arsenal, Newcastle United, Rio Ferdinand, Tottenham Hotspur, Javier Hernandez, Gareth Bale, Joe Cole, Lee Cattermole, Blackpool, Roy Hodgson, Birmingham City, Bolton Wanderers, Asamoah Gyan, Fernando Torres, West Brom, Darren Bent, Chris Hughton, Kenwyne Jones, Phil Neville, Sir Alex Ferguson, Steed Malbranque, Lukasz Fabianski, Mario Balotelli, Avram Grant, Bebe, Cameron Jerome, Gabriel Obertan, Gretar Steinsson, Jean Beausejour, Ji Sung Park, Kevin Davies, Lars Jacobsen, Liam Ridgewell, Marcus Hahneman, Martin Atkinson, Michael Oliver, Neil Eardley, Nemanja Vidic, Paul Scholes, Phil Dowd, Rob Green, Seb Larsson, Youssuf Mulumbu, Zat Knight
Friday 05 November 2010, 14:43
As the football world goes Bale-barmy, Richard Edwards speaks to the former head of Sports Science at Southampton to find out whether the Spurs superstarlet was always destined for greatness Luis Figo...
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Friday 05 November 2010, 12:26
Mark bloody Lawrenson somehow nailed nine out of 10 predictions last week. He only slipped up with Wolves v Manchester City, as did everyone else, not least Roberto Mancini. Either Lawro’s undergone a...
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Tuesday 02 November 2010, 12:01
It's nice when footballers get involved in the community, and Valencia players have been falling over themselves to expound the greatness of their fair city. The local tourism council's promotional...
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Monday 01 November 2010, 11:36
The weekend's Premier League heroes and villains, as chosen by James Maw ... HEROES Kevin Nolan Henry Winter probably put it best - “Kevin Nolan, midfielder, goalscorer, captain, landlord...utterly...
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Tags: Nani, Manchester United, Chelsea, Fulham, Bobby Zamora, Wolves, West Ham, Mick McCarthy, Liverpool, Sunderland, Manchester City, Roberto Mancini, Clint Dempsey, Arsenal, Newcastle United, Emmanuel Adebayor, Tottenham Hotspur, Blackburn Rovers, Andy Carroll, Bolton Wanderers, Steve Bruce, Paul Robinson, Robert Green, Joey Barton, Karl Henry, Mark Hughes, Chris Hughton, Carlo Ancelotti, Mark Clattenburg, Kevin Nolan, Scott Carson, Nedum Onouha, Alex Song, Branislav Ivanovic, Jonas Gutierrez, Titus Bramble, Pablo Zabaletta, Mario Balotelli, Paulo Ferreira, Heurelho Gomes, Jo
Friday 29 October 2010, 12:22
SATURDAY Arsenal v West Ham (3pm) This season, the Gunners have been awarded more penalties and seen more opposition players sent off than any other team in the league. Could it be they have an unfair...
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Friday 29 October 2010, 12:20
In FourFourTwo this month : the ultimate lowdown on the world’s biggest club, as we go behind the scenes at Barcelona. Ahead of one of the most exciting clasicos in years, FourFourTwo has delved deep into...
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Tags: Andres Iniesta, Ulrich Hesse, Michael Owen, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Emmerson Boyce, John Coleman, Saloman Kalou, David Villa, Reuben Hazell, Rivaldo, Sergio Busquets, Kenny Dyer, Paul Hart, Ian Taylor, Mike O’Callaghan, Aaron McLean, Ricky Villa, Phil Parkinson, Magno Vieira, Malcolm Wagner, Ben Foster, Leon McSweeney, Matthew Warburton, Scott Carson, Ashley Williams, Darren Huckerby, Richard Bevan, Clicker Bacon, Chris Kamara, Jeff Stelling, Pedro, Javier Zanetti, Barney Ronay, Wes Brown, Romario
Thursday 28 October 2010, 12:23
Well, isn’t it a bloody shame Gareth Bale isn’t English, eh? Isn’t it a bloody shame? He’s just what England need, so why is he wasting his time with Wales? BECAUSE HE’S WELSH, YOU IDIOTS! It’s extraordinary...
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Tags: Ryan Giggs, Gareth Bale, Aliaksandr Hleb, Mart Poom, Jason Roberts, George Best, Shaun Goater, Christopher Samba, Craig Forrest, Eidur Gudjohnsen, Nolberto Solano, Ruel Fox, Sami Hyypia, Georgi Kinkladze, Marians Parhars, Peter Ndlovu, George Weah
Monday 25 October 2010, 12:37
The weekend's winners and losers, literally and figuratively... HEROES Lukasz Fabianski A confident and composed performance from the Arsenal goalkeeper helped his side seal all three points in what...
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Tags: Manchester United, Fulham, Tottenham, Stoke, Wolves, West Ham, Blackburn, Everton, Liverpool, Sunderland, Manchester City, Roberto Mancini, Aston Villa, Arsenal, Newcastle United, Carlos Tevez, Emmanuel Adebayor, Javier Hernandez, Gareth Bale, Andy Carroll, Mike Williamson, El Hadji Diouf, Vincent Kompany, Jamie Carragher, Carlton Cole, Phil Neville, Maroune Chamakh, Leighton Baines, Gary Neville, Richard Dunne, Chiek Tiote, Mark Clattenburg, Samir Nasri, Dedryck Boyatta, Maicon, Cesc Fabregas, Kevin Nolan, Steed Malbranque, Frank Sinclair, Lukasz Fabianski, Matthew Etherington
Friday 22 October 2010, 15:24
What a week for Manchester United. There can’t have been too many times in the last 20 years when a Champions League game has seemed less significant at Old Trafford than the 1-0 win over Bursaspor, with...
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Friday 22 October 2010, 12:27
With the Rooney saga set to rumble on until most of us are dead, fall-out for six teams in Europe and yet another high-profile Manchester City league encounter, this weekend looks set to be a belter in...
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Tags: Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Arsenal, Wayne Rooney, Tottenham Hotspur, Blackburn Rovers, West Ham United, Bolton Wanderers, West Brom, Stoke City, Wigan Athletic, Newscastle United
Monday 18 October 2010, 11:41
The weekend's heroes and villains in the Premier League... HEROES Tim Cahill While it may have come as a slight surprise to see the Australian score with his right boot rather than his noggin, it probably...
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Tags: Manchester United, Birmingham, Arsene Wenger, Fulham, Tottenham, Everton, Liverpool, Wigan, Manchester City, Arsenal, Ian Holloway, Blackpool, Roy Hodgson, Tim Cahill, Newcastle, Mark Schwarzer, Roberto di Matteo, West Bromwich Albion, Chris Brunt, Jermaine Beckford, David Silva, Charles N’Zogbia, Edwin van der Sar, Jack Wilshere, Tom Huddlestone, Mike Dean, Matt Gilks, Sir Alex Ferguson, William Gallas, Nikola Zigic, Peter Schmeichel
Friday 15 October 2010, 14:46
Tributes have poured in for Malcolm Allison, the charismatic former Manchester City and Crystal Palace manager who died today at the age of 83. The following piece on 'Big Mal' was written by Steve...
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Friday 15 October 2010, 14:13
Frustration for England, disappointment for Northern Ireland, so near but yet so far for Scotland and not even close for Wales. It wasn’t the best of international weeks for the home nations, and many...
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Friday 15 October 2010, 12:01
With England's under-21s sealing their place at next summer's European Championships in Denmark with a play-off win over Romania, FourFourTwo.com editor Gary Parkinson assesses the difficulties...
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Tags: Gary Cahill, Daniel Sturridge, Danny Cadamarteri, Stuart Pearce, Joe Hart, Theo Walcott, Jack Rodwell, Adam Johnson, Lee Cattermole, Darren Bent, Alan Shearer, Danny Welbeck, Giovanni Trapattoni, England U21, Jonjo Shelvey, Mark Noble, Fraizer Campbell, Michael Mancienne, Darron Gibson, Francis Jeffers, Carlton Cole, Nedum Onuoha, James Milner, Micah Richards, Kieran Richardson
Friday 15 October 2010, 09:32
The ‘Friendly Derby’? Not any more. As Neil Billingham reports, tragedy, mediocrity and financial uncertainty have made things turn nasty... St Luke’s Church in Walton, Liverpool, is like no other in the...
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Tags: Everton, Liverpool, Steven Gerrard, Robbie Fowler, Jamie Carragher, Trevor Steven, Howard Kendall, Joseph Yobo, Dirk Kuyt, Neville southall, Kevin Sheedy, Harry Catterick, Graeme Sharp, Phil Neville, Steven Pienaar, Bill Shankly, Peter Reid, Sotiros Kyrgiakos, Javier Mascherano
Monday 11 October 2010, 15:58
Picture the scene - AC Milan have blown a 3-0 lead to Liverpool in the Champions League final, and now trail 2-0 in the penalty shoot-out, with two spot-kicks taken apiece. Denmark forward Jon Dahl Tomasson...
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Monday 11 October 2010, 10:56
The League Managers' Association respond to criticism, not least from Danny Murphy , that bosses are overly exciting their players... In response to the extensive coverage in all forms of the media...
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Wednesday 06 October 2010, 15:50
"Get on at Pat van den Hounslow, change at Jack Lester Square, down to Sylvan Embankment Blake and get off at Taribo Westminster…" We love a daft idea from a bored office conversation which spirals...
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Wednesday 06 October 2010, 14:09
To which the answer is obviously "a scarily good forward", but the Ivorian's backheel against Arsenal – despite being enough to win him applause in this week's Heroes & Villains round...
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Monday 04 October 2010, 14:34
We run through those who made the weekend's Premier League action great and who made the weekend's Premier League action grate... HEROES: Didier Drogba Perhaps the least surprising element of the...
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Friday 01 October 2010, 16:37
In FourFourTwo this month : An interview with the world’s greatest footballer and plenty of other football peeps who aren’t half bad either To celebrate the 70th birthday of the world’s greatest footballer...
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Tags: Darren Anderton, Andres Iniesta, Craig Brown, Asamoah Gyan, Shaun Barker, Lal Hardy, Darren Currie, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, James O’Connor, John Hartson, James Righton, Henrik Larsson, Don Goodman, Scott McGleish, Brynjar Gunnarsson, Gary Bailey, Usain Bolt, Terry Byrne, Danny Gabbidon, Carl Johnson, Carlo Ancelotti, Paolo Maldini, Lucas Radebe, Bebe’s brother, John Toshack, Tino Asprilla, Jamie Carragher, Paul Kemsley, Matthew Syed, Xabi Alonso, Anthony Barnett
Friday 01 October 2010, 14:07
West Brom winning at the Emirates? Last-placed West Ham beating Champions League-scaling Spurs? Chelsea and Manchester United dropping points? Honestly, making predictions is going to become really difficult...
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Wednesday 29 September 2010, 15:00
For the first time in what seems like years – probably because it is years – I find myself unbothered about the release of the latest raft of football simulation games. So feeling malaise towards managerial...
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Monday 27 September 2010, 12:23
Rounding up the weekend's Premier League goodies and baddies... HEROES Roberto Di Matteo Two years ago West Bromwich Albion earned plaudits for their persistence in ‘playing the game as it should be...
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Tags: Manchester United, Bolton, Chelsea, Portsmouth, Stoke, Wolves, West Ham, Liverpool, Sunderland, Manchester City, Aston Villa, Arsenal, Carlos Tevez, Rafael van der Vaart, Robert Green, Newcastle, Peter Odemwingie, Roberto di Matteo, Darren Bent, West Bromwich Albion, Gonzalo Jara, Chris Brunt, Danny Welbeck, Nick Barmby, Sander Westerveld, Vincent Kompany, Michael Brown, Luka Modric, Stuart Attwell, Michael Owen, Kenwyne Jones, Emile Heskey, Gerard Houllier, Steven Gerrard, Jussi Jaaskelainen, Manuel Almunia, Marcus Hahnemann, Robbie Fowler, James Perch, Michael Turner
Friday 24 September 2010, 14:25
Football finance expert David Conn asks the question that sends shivers down Scouse spines. .. When, aged 62, Roy Hodgson was finally handed his dream job this summer – “the biggest in club football,”...
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Friday 24 September 2010, 11:28
In saving these 'ere words, this blog stumbled upon the predictions made – and for some reason kept – for this same weekend last year. Among the usual inconsequential rambling was bitter reflection...
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Monday 20 September 2010, 14:58
The weekend's heroes and villains from the Premier League… HEROES Dimitar Berbatov Sunday’s win over Liverpool was the day Dimitar Berbatov has been waiting for since moving to Old Trafford just over...
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Tags: Manchester United, Arsene Wenger, Fulham, Sam Allardyce, Everton, Liverpool, Sunderland, Arsenal, Newcastle United, Rafael van der Vaart, Tottenham Hotspur, Blackburn Rovers, Birmingham City, Marouane Fellaini, Mike Williamson, Peter Odemwingie, Mark Schwarzer, Roberto di Matteo, Hatem Ben Arfa, Lee Bowyer, Darren Bent, Mark Hughes, Dimitar Berbatov, Chris Hughton, Alan Hutton, Kyle Walker, West Bromwich Albion, David Stockdale, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Rangers, Vedran Corluka, QPR, Alan Shearer, Younes Kaboul, El Hadji Diouf
Friday 17 September 2010, 16:37
1. Bolton should expect a tonking at Villa …and not just because Gary Cahill has joined Jussi Jaaskelainen on the naughty step. In their last 17 trips to the ‘big eight’ (Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal...
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Friday 17 September 2010, 13:46
Pfft, plus ca change, eh? Only four games into the new season and already the top four is made up of Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United and...uh...Blackpool. Next year's FIFA and PES covers are going...
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Tags: Manchester United, Arsenal: Eduardo, Chelsea, Fulham, Stoke, Wolves, Everton, Liverpool, Sunderland, Aston Villa, Arsenal, Blackpool, Blackburn Rovers, West Ham United, Bolton Wanderers, Birminghamam, West Brom, Newcastle
Friday 17 September 2010, 13:41
1. Bolton should expect a tonking at Villa …and not just because Gary Cahill has joined Jussi Jaaskelainen on the naughty step. In their last 17 trips to the ‘big eight’ (Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal...
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Wednesday 15 September 2010, 11:09
With the Champions League group stages getting underway this week, FourFourTwo regular Richard Edwards ponders whether UEFA's tough new stance on club debt could end England's 'golden era'...
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Monday 13 September 2010, 11:28
The weekend's heroes and villains from the Premier League... HEROES Matthew Gilks Far from being everybody’s b*tch, Blackpool have made a solid start to their debut Premier League season, securing...
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Tags: Manchester United, Arsene Wenger, Chelsea, Fulham, Bobby Zamora, Matthew Upson, Wolves, West Ham, Everton, Liverpool, Sunderland, Wigan, Manchester City, David Moyes, Clint Dempsey, Fabio Capello, Joe Hart, Arsenal, Newcastle United, Didier Drogba, Pepe Reina, Lee Cattermole, Blackpool, Blackburn Rovers, Roy Hodgson, Jordan Henderson, Birmingham City, Alex McLeish, Andy Carroll, Bolton Wanderers, Matthew Gilks, Marouane Fellaini, Shrewsbury, Salomon Kalou, Steve Bruce, Paul Robinson, Asamoah Gyan, Robert Green, Roger Johnson, Frederic Piquionne, Joey Barton, Peter Lovenkrands, Niall Quinn, Tomas Rosicky, Fernando Torres, Tim Cahill, Karl Henry, Scott Dann, Mauro Boselli
Friday 10 September 2010, 15:45
Goalfests, England back on track, John Toshack leaving Wales, Scotland grabbing a dramatic last-gasp winner, France being humbled, Portugal being embarrassed not once but twice and Argentina thrashing...
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Friday 03 September 2010, 15:06
In the the penultimate instalment of our week of profiles on the game's greatest playmakers, journalist Jamie Bowman waxes lyrical about the Prince of Denmark... Esteemed football journalist Brian...
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Thursday 02 September 2010, 18:41
Playmakers Week continues with FourFourTwo editor David Hall 's memories of a Frenchman who certainly left the game with a bang... As playmakers go, Zinedine Zidane must surely be one of the most graceful...
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Thursday 02 September 2010, 10:06
Playmakers Week continues with FFT.com blogger James Horncastle 's take on the often misunderstood Roman hero Life could have been so different for Francesco Totti. “If I hadn’t been a footballer,...
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Wednesday 01 September 2010, 17:39
The new issue of FourFourTwo is a 'Playmakers Special'. With that in mind it's Playmakers Week here on FFT.com. Here, former FourFourTwo editor Hugh Sleight recalls one of Brazilian football's...
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Wednesday 01 September 2010, 15:31
The slamming shut of the transfer window (with a small catflap left open for sufficiently big clubs to wangle their new signing in after the deadline) is always something of an anti-climax. That’s why...
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Wednesday 01 September 2010, 11:13
The new issue of FourFourTwo is a 'Playmakers Special'. This week FFT.com's writers will be sharing their memories of their favourite No.10s - now is the turn of Michael Cox , editor of ZonalMarking...
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Tuesday 31 August 2010, 14:57
FourFourTwo.com blogger and Southampton fan Chris Cox on Alan Pardew's departure from St Mary's... Alan Pardew’s sacking is many things, but least of all a surprise. The writing had been on the...
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Tuesday 31 August 2010, 11:52
The new issue of FourFourTwo is a 'Playmakers Special'. Pompey fan Steve Morgan continues our week of blogs playing homage to the game's great creative geniuses with a look back on the season...
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Friday 27 August 2010, 13:14
Sat here, as I am, now NOT going to Reading Festival, I'm comforted by the fact that a festival of football awaits. Serie A gets underway this weekend, Jose Mourinho begins his Real Madrid odyssey...
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Monday 23 August 2010, 11:54
We run through some of those who made headlines for the right and the wrong reasons on a weekend where two of England’s young forwards grabbed their first Premier League trebles, and three teams shipped...
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Friday 20 August 2010, 16:24
Bournemouth striker Brett Pitman is subject to interest from Premier League new-boys Blackpool, Carl Burkitt ponders whether he should make the step up or sit tight in League On With a league total of...
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Friday 20 August 2010, 13:01
So, we’re off and running, and into the second week of the Premier League season. You’d hope it’s as exciting as the opening weekend’s action, and some cracking fixtures await. Despite it having been Friday...
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Monday 16 August 2010, 08:30
We take a look at the best and the worst of the action from the opening round of Premier League matches (bar the one that hasn't been played yet, obviously...) Heroes of Round 1 Joe Hart, Manchester...
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Tags: Birmingham, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Sunderland, Manchester City, Joe Hart, Aston Villa, Arsenal, Didier Drogba, Tottenham Hotspur, Jamie Redknapp., Tim Howard, Stephen Carr, Joe Cole, Pepe Reina, Lee Cattermole, Blackpool, Blackburn Rovers, West Ham United
Friday 13 August 2010, 15:42
FourFourTwo's very own bearded Mystic Meg tells us what to expect from the coming Premier League season... August Finally, finally, the Premier League season is underway and the sparks fly immediately...
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Friday 13 August 2010, 11:58
Liverpool-based scribe Jamie Bowman takes the temperature in a great city at a crossroads... Esteemed music journalist Paul Du Noyer once described Liverpool as “a drunken sailor of a town”, an apt phrase...
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Friday 13 August 2010, 11:04
It’s back. Oh, it’s back. After an interminable summer punctuated by a terminable World Cup, the English Premier League is back to prove to its doubters that it really is the best league in the world....
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Friday 13 August 2010, 10:30
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the world and his dog have been tipping Manchester City to secure a top-four finish this season. City have spent heavily on players of a considerable pedigree this summer, with...
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Thursday 12 August 2010, 20:00
FourFourTwo.com blogger and Southampton fan Chris Cox pays tribute to the man who saved the South Coast club from extinction Yesterday, Southampton Football Club was left in a state of shock and disbelief...
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Monday 09 August 2010, 13:41
The 2010/11 season is underway, and as ever FourFourTwo is here to help you get your head round it all, with the September issue out now… It being the start of the season and all, there seems no better...
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Tags: Harry Redknapp, Liverpool, Manchester City, Roberto Mancini, Charlie Nicholas, Shay Given, Arsenal, Ian Broudie, Emmanuel Adebayor, Jack Rodwell, Ian Holloway, David Elleray, Steve Cram, Hicks & Gillett, David Ginola, Tottenham Hotspur, Adam Johnson, Kevin Keegan, Lawrence Dallaglio, Lord Coe, Javier Hernandez, Jamie Redknapp., Keith Wood, Norman Hunter, Robert Pires, Danny Wilson, Sharron Davies, Slash, Ricky Hatton, Laurent Blanc, Andrew Cole, Gareth Bale, Marouane Chamakh, Marco Materazzi, Howard Wilkinson, Jasper Carrot, Jay Emmanuel-Thomas
Monday 12 July 2010, 18:04
FourFourTwo 's own Huw Davies has for some reason been desperate for the world to see his balls - footballs for the coming season, that is! That was a subtle and very clever joke about testicles, incase...
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Wednesday 26 May 2010, 11:55
We love football, Stan. And we love a party. Which is why we're giving our full backing to England's 2018 World Cup bid. The last party we held went well – Euro 96 was an important watershed for...
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Sunday 09 May 2010, 10:00
So it all comes down to this: one weekend of furious interplay to see who will win between the Scotsman in red seeking a fourth consecutive reign and the rich poshos in blue hated by everyone who doesn't...
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Thursday 06 May 2010, 16:17
The World Cup is coming, and we're so excited we might endanger our trousers. The new issue of FourFourTwo is so big, you could stun a walrus with it: * There's 186 pages of magazine, stuffed full...
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Tags: Gordon Strachan, Simon Kuper, Didier Deschamps, Clint Dempsey, Gordon Banks, Daniel Alves, Adam Matthews, Mesut Ozil, Taiwo Atieno, Viv Anderson, John Gregory, Carlos Tevez, Aaron Lennon, Phil Thompson, Marko Marin, Tom Cairney, Robert Page, Lee Wallace, Callum Davidson, Charlie Henry, Didier Drogba, Brian McDermott, Jermain Defoe, Andrea Pirlo, Per Mertesacker, Andres Iniesta, Graham Taylor, Craig Brown, Fabio Cannavaro, Wayne Brown, Rio Ferdinand, Wayne Rooney, John Terry, Clint Hill, John Barnes, Rafael van der Vaart, Swindon Town, Franck Ribery, Theo Walcott, Richard Ord, Andriy Shevchenko, Ulrich Hesse, Drewe Broughton
Wednesday 05 May 2010, 00:01
Sadly, we can’t all be good enough to travel with Fabio Capello and his 23-man squad to South Africa this summer. While we may dream about playing in front of millions of fans across the globe, for the...
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Friday 30 April 2010, 11:29
The dream continues for Fulham; the nightmare continues for Liverpool. Yet another overcoming of the odds has given Roy Hodgson’s men a bona fide European final. In fact, their dream has lasted so long...
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Tags: Manchester United, Birmingham, Bolton, Chelsea, Fulham, Iain Dowie, Premier League, Portsmouth, Tottenham, Hull, Burnley, Gianfranco Zola, Stoke, Wolves, West Ham, Blackburn, Everton, Liverpool, Wigan, Manchester City, Predictions, Aston Villa, Arsenal
Tuesday 27 April 2010, 16:00
BBC pundit and freesat.co.uk/worldcup blogger Lee Dixon gives his verdict on England's chances of finally tasting World Cup glory again this summer. David Beckham had planned on making history in South...
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Tuesday 27 April 2010, 13:04
With the World Cup now mere weeks away, Dan Ross looks at some of the best (and worst, obviously) mascots to have graced major international championships down the years... World Cup Willie - World Cup...
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Monday 26 April 2010, 11:44
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Friday 23 April 2010, 10:30
The BBC has tried to name their own 23-man World Cup squad by unveiling THE LARGEST COVERAGE TEAM EVER. Joining the merry band of Gary Lineker, Mark Lawrenson, Mark Bright, Lee Dixon, Mick McCarthy (argh...
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Tags: Manchester United, Birmingham, Bolton, Chelsea, Fulham, Premier League, Portsmouth, Tottenham, Hull, Burnley, Stoke, West Ham, Blackburn, Everton, Mick McCarthy, Liverpool, Sunderland, Wigan, Manchester City, Predictions, Aston Villa, Arsenal, Newcastle United
Tuesday 20 April 2010, 10:40
Wigan’s shock victory over Arsenal this weekend spurred Dan Ross into thinking about the ten surprises of the season across Europe so far… Montpellier’s Ligue 1 assault Imagine if Burnley had finished...
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Friday 16 April 2010, 11:21
So, the PFA Player of the Year will be one of Wayne Rooney, Didier Drogba, Cesc Fabregas or Carlos Tevez. Probably the only way the nominations could have been more predictable would have been if they'd...
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Tuesday 13 April 2010, 11:33
The past few days have brought introspection for many a Premier League manager, and a surprising number are opting for sober realism/cold defeatism (delete as appropriate). First, there's Rafa Benitez...
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Tags: Bolton, Chelsea, Premier League, Portsmouth, Tottenham, Everton, Wigan, Predictions, FA Cup, Aston Villa, Arsenal
Tuesday 13 April 2010, 10:54
Dan Ross runs down 10 El Clasico clashes from the last 25 years which make Saturday night’s offering look frankly dull... 1.Real Madrid 2-6 Barcelona, 2009 This astonishing result from last season saw...
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Friday 09 April 2010, 12:16
Tch, football, eh? What about golf? Watching 50-year-old Fred Couples and 60-year-old Tom Watson lead the Masters (at the time of writing) is enough to make you wonder whether...no... Darren Anderton has...
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Tags: Manchester United, Birmingham, Fulham, Hull, Burnley, Gianfranco Zola, Wolves, West Ham, Blackburn, Liverpool, Sunderland, Manchester City, Joe Hart, Darren Anderton
Wednesday 07 April 2010, 10:00
In this month's FourFourTwo: exclusive interviews with more than 60 football folk - including the England manager... When Fabio Capello talks, people listen. We certainly did, and the result is a world...
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Tags: Gordon Strachan, Alan Carr, Elena Baltacha, Craig Burley, Darel Russell, Francisco Varallo, Peter Shilton, Paul Mariner, Jimmy Bullard, Enzo Bearzot, Steve Cotterill, Davor Suker, Simon Kuper, Didier Deschamps, Danny Simpson, Aime Jacquet, Clint Dempsey, Fabien Barthez, Danny Cadamarteri, Marcela Mora y Araujo, Danny Dyer, Tony Adams, Luis Suarez, Gordon Banks, Paul Anderson, Mario Zagallo, Greg Clowes, Craig Dawson, Martin Mazur, Danny Mills, Gabriele Marcotti, Daniel Alves, John Clark, Tony Mowbray, Dr Richard Steadman, Alan Mullery, Wayne Allison, Luiz Felipe Scolari, Zinedine Zidane, Josh Thompson, Fabio Capello, Claudio Ranieri, Tony Woodcock, Carlos Bilardo, Jimmy McNulty, Jimmy Armfield, Dean Furman, Shay Given, Marcel Desailly, Grant Holt, Derek McInnes, Luis Fabiano, Kelly & Paul Dalglish, Peter Crouch, Chris McGrath, Emmanuel Petit, Jordi Cruyff, Marcus Gayle, Stuart Pearce
Friday 02 April 2010, 15:00
"'Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!' The bell hadn't gone for assembly yet, and other lads from the playground came out to watch. 'Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!' Gordon pushed Norbert...
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Tuesday 30 March 2010, 15:04
Dan Ross presents the 10 most bizarre goal celebrations in World Cup finals history... Gordon Strachan puts his feet up Back at Mexico 86, celebrating a goal by hurdling the advertising boards was all...
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Tags: Charlie Nicholas, Papa Bouba Diop, Gordon Strachan, Brian Laudrup, Fabio Grosso, Lilian Thuram, Rashidi Yekini, Finidi George, Roger Milla, Marco Tardelli, Bebeto, Diego Maradona
Friday 26 March 2010, 11:54
Moving house, your blogger has dug out a dog-eared copy of childhood staple Gary Lineker's Favourite Football Stories , complete with a smiling, considerably less grey Lineker and wackily animated...
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Tags: Gary Cahill, Nani, Manchester United, Ryan Giggs, Martin Taylor, Anderson, Alex Ferguson, Birmingham, Gary Lineker, Arsene Wenger, Bolton, Arsenal: Eduardo, Chelsea, Fulham, Iain Dowie, Aaron Ramsey, Premier League, Ricardo Carvalho, Florent Malouda, Daniel Sturridge, John Paintsil, Harry Redknapp, David James, Tommy Smith, Portsmouth, Tottenham, Ricardo Rocha, Hull, Bobby Zamora, Sebastian Bassong, Hugo Rodallega, Sam Allardyce, David SUllivan, David Dunn, Burnley, Matthew Upson, Gianfranco Zola, Stoke, Wolves, West Ham, Blackburn, Everton, Mick McCarthy, beach ball, Liverpool, Sunderland, Wigan, Manchester City, Roberto Mancini, Roberto Martinez, David Moyes
Tuesday 23 March 2010, 12:30
Dan Ross presents, in chronological order, the 10 finest goals in World Cup finalses. In his view, obviously... Sweden 58: Pele (Brazil) vs Sweden Gazza’s goal against the Scots ain’t so great. It turns...
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Tuesday 23 March 2010, 11:12
You can't spell 'executive' without 'exit' – tenuous start – and sure enough, another Chief Executive of the FA is gone. Ian Watmore didn't want more, it seems, resigning from his...
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Friday 19 March 2010, 09:41
It’s been a quiet week, with just the usual stories cropping up: one team deducted points for the first time in Premier League history; another creating European history; a manager being sacked; the manager...
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Wednesday 17 March 2010, 15:00
It's all happening in the new FourFourTwo – along with a healthy dollop of football beyond the Premiership... As Portsmouth are almost certain to find out soon, there is life beyond the top flight...
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Wednesday 17 March 2010, 12:15
ANOTHER GUEST BLOG! Written by Mock The Week and We Need Answers comedian Mark Watson and his brother Paul, Back of the Net is "a surprisingly funny football blog." For more, read here - but...
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Tuesday 16 March 2010, 14:50
Wayne Rooney has joked that his recent glut of headers is exacerbating his bald spot. Fear not, says Dan Ross : examine these excelling egg-heads... Jaap Stam Back in his intimidating, domineering prime...
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Friday 12 March 2010, 14:16
RIGHT TO REPLY: Simon James responds to yesterday's opinion piece criticising the Love United, Hate Glazer campaign Most football fans don’t need another reason to hate greedy owners – but there are...
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Friday 12 March 2010, 12:30
It’s been a great week for English football, as Manchester United and Arsenal showed total dominance over AC Milan and Porto respectively (or disrespectively, perhaps). But with Real Madrid going out too...
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Thursday 11 March 2010, 10:40
Brighton fan and FootballTalentspotter blogger Frankie Alunga gives us his views on the ongoing supporter protests at Manchester United... Most football fans don't need an additional reason to hate...
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Tuesday 09 March 2010, 11:00
Arsenal take on Porto still smarting about the referee's first-leg performance. At least they didn't get one of this lot... Melvin Sylvester School caretaker Melvin Sylvester was refereeing an...
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Monday 08 March 2010, 13:00
Eh? What's that? Is it Friday already? Is it going home time? Brilliant, here comes the weekend! Sorry, readers. It's Monday and it's the start of the week - but the good news is FourFourTwo...
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Friday 05 March 2010, 11:00
The smoke-and-mirrors magic of the FA Cup means little Premier League action this weekend, with eight games spilling over five days. For insight and analysis – hah, sorry, couldn't finish that sentence...
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Thursday 04 March 2010, 11:45
"Fabio, are they booing me?" "No, John, they're saying 'Boo-aines', 'Boo-aines'." (With apologies to The Simpsons, and to those who've already suffered that...
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Wednesday 03 March 2010, 09:00
England unveiled their new away shirt for the 2010 World Cup in novel style last month – with Kasabian launching the kit at a gig… in Paris. The Leicester rockers made history by becoming the first ever...
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Tuesday 02 March 2010, 11:30
For this week's Tuesday 10, new FFT.com writer James Horncastle investigates lucky charms... Romeo Anconetani and lots of salt Plato described salt as being especially dear to the gods, so it’s perhaps...
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Monday 01 March 2010, 12:30
It's all getting a bit playground now, isn't it? Firstly came Wayne Bridge's refusal to shake John Terry's hand before the Chelsea-Man City game on Saturday. That's Bridge's prerogative...
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Friday 26 February 2010, 14:30
They say the League Cup's been devalued. As is often the case, "they" are wrong, says Chris Nee ... On Sunday Aston Villa will play in their first final for a decade, battling with Manchester...
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Friday 26 February 2010, 13:00
You have to feel a bit sorry for Carlo Ancelotti and Fabio Capello. The two Italians have worked towards team unity and discipline, only to be rewarded with a bunch of footballers who can't keep their...
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Tuesday 23 February 2010, 14:30
After naming and shaming the worst football films last week, FFT.com's very own Barry Norman (ask your dad) Dan Ross lists the 10 best football films Purely Belter Back before its name resembled an...
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Friday 19 February 2010, 15:30
Cheer up, Bolton and Burnley. Don't be glum, Hull and Sunderland. Give us a grin, Wigan, West Ham and Wolves. Your job might not be as hard as it seems, says FourFourTwo.com editor Gary Parkinson We...
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Friday 19 February 2010, 12:30
What a week of European football. Controversial goals , controversial free kicks , controversial controversy . Also, inside sources reveal some English bloke played for Milan against Manchester United...
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Wednesday 17 February 2010, 15:30
FREE ITALIA 90 MAGAZINE! This month in FourFourTwo (the magazine, that is) we continue our series telling the inside stories of previous World Cups with Italia 90: a tournament that smoothly slips a pair...
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Tuesday 16 February 2010, 14:00
FFT.com's list-lovin' Dan Ross files the flicks to kick Guys and Balls Baker’s son Eckie is kicked out of his football team after being seen drunkenly kissing a team-mate. Angrily he dares them...
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Thursday 11 February 2010, 16:00
FourFourTwo.com's James Maw takes a look at the title race and attempts to predict which side will be lifting the Premier League trophy come May... With Chelsea and Manchester United both dropping...
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Tuesday 09 February 2010, 14:00
Roy Keane on Alf-Inge Haaland, Manchester derby, 2001 The roots of this infamous knee-high tackle were bedded three years previously. A mistimed Keane lunge at Leeds’ Haaland resulted in a cruciate ligament...
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Tuesday 09 February 2010, 11:00
So, John Terry is no longer captain of his country, England will face Wales in the 2012 Euro qualifiers and Paul Gascoigne's been arrested in a Yorkshire takeaway for drink-driving (presumably not...
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Friday 05 February 2010, 09:30
Well, anyone who still believed in the holy sanctity of football has had their childlike innocence dumped on from a great height. John Terry and his other woman, Avram Grant and his "masseuses"...
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Tuesday 02 February 2010, 15:00
With Wayne Rooney having notched his 100th top-flight goal, Dan Ross celebrates some of the Premier League's centurions. Click the pics to watch the videos! Wayne Rooney - 100 Premier League goals...
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Friday 29 January 2010, 11:00
If there’s one thing in the Premier League you can expect, it’s the unexpected (this should be a betting option at Ladbrokes). For a start, fast-moving transfer talk is making it virtually impossible to...
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Wednesday 27 January 2010, 11:00
GUEST BLOG TIME! Written by Mock The Week and We Need Answers comedian Mark Watson and his brother Paul, Back of the Net is "a surprisingly funny football blog." For more, read here - but not...
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Tuesday 26 January 2010, 16:00
Last time, it was footballers in regrettable ads. Now, Dan Ross gives credit where it's due... Carlsberg ‘Dreams’ Carlsberg’s are probably the best adverts in the world. Their England-heroes pub team...
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Tuesday 26 January 2010, 13:00
When is a top four not a top four? When eight teams are battling to be in it. As if Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Aston Villa, Spurs and Manchesters United and City weren’t enough, West Ham are the latest...
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Friday 22 January 2010, 18:30
Every four years, one legendary football – The Ball – makes an epic journey from London's Battersea Park, where the very first game of football with FA rules was played, to the World Cup opening ceremony...
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Friday 22 January 2010, 16:00
Campbell’s decision to sue his ailing club over image rights is an ugly affair, says Steve Morgan Pompey fans have had more on their plate this season than a starving tramp could scoff at an all-you-can...
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Thursday 21 January 2010, 17:30
It's January, so everbody's chasing strikers. Rather greedily, we've herded all the best of them into the new FourFourTwo (out now) – a special Strikers Issue. Leading our line are Wayne Rooney...
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Friday 15 January 2010, 12:30
It's been an interesting start to the decade for the fellas of the Premier League. Well, some of them. We may be into the third weekend of the new year but more than half of our Pedigree Chums are...
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Thursday 14 January 2010, 12:00
Which Barcelona player thinks he's Matt Le Tissier ? How does Gordon Strachan make professional footballers groan with two short words ? Which Liverpool legend gets Kenny Dalglish round to fix his...
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Tuesday 12 January 2010, 12:00
Jamie Redknapp – Thomas Cook No stranger to ads, Redders was loved by everybody in those playful Nintendo Wii commercials, arguing with his dad and losing with humility to his missus. Then he went and...
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Monday 11 January 2010, 13:30
Midway through a troubled season, a confused Steve Morgan unburdens his soul Be careful what you wish for. As a Portsmouth season-ticket holder, I feel well-qualified to comment. I tap this out in the...
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Tuesday 05 January 2010, 13:00
10) Jean-Alain Boumsong (Rangers to Newcastle, £8m, 2005) The epitome of the errors in judgement brought about by the January transfer window, Boumsong was Graeme Souness's first big signing at St...
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Friday 01 January 2010, 00:01
Hello there. We understand you might wish to contact us from time to time, and that's cool. If it's for general chatting, try our Twitter , Facebook and Google+ pages, but if you have a specific...
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Tuesday 22 December 2009, 11:30
FFT.com's Dan Ross flicks through the vids to find the finest efforts of the Noughties Best Training Ground Routine: Paul Scholes v Bradford, 2000 Visitors to Old Trafford over the past couple of decades...
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Friday 18 December 2009, 15:45
Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas! What? Too early, you say? Well, I’m not here next week – face facts now, you shouldn’t be reading this blog on Christmas Day. Come in, everybody – make yourselves at home. It...
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Tuesday 15 December 2009, 12:30
A couple of crucial goals from netminders in last week's Champions League sent FFT.com's Dan Ross scurrying to the archives... Hans Jörg Butt No relation to midfield minesweeper Nicky, German goalkeeper...
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Friday 11 December 2009, 11:30
As Christmas approaches, the same words are on everybody’s lips: who’s on the move in the January transfer window? Van Nistelrooy to Blackburn, Pavlyuchenko to Liverpool, Pavlyuchenko to Arsenal (there...
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Wednesday 09 December 2009, 12:30
Linvoy Primus, a hero to Portsmouth fans, hung up his boots yesterday. Devoted fan Steve Morgan pays his respects. As Portsmouth’s heroes made their way up the 39 steps (or whatever it is nowadays, with...
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Friday 04 December 2009, 11:00
Weekend fixtures: Arsenal vs Stoke City, Aston Villa vs Hull City, Blackburn Rovers vs Liverpool, Manchester City vs Chelsea, Portsmouth vs Burnley, West Ham United vs Manchester United, Wigan Athletic...
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Friday 04 December 2009, 08:00
Welcome patrons. Please take a seat, stuff the tablecloth into your shirt and drink the fingerbowl: Le Bistro de Video Stars is once again open for business. What’s on the menu? In short, a feast of football...
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Wednesday 02 December 2009, 15:00
The new issue of FourFourTwo is out now, and ready to brighten your life. With the transfer window looming, FourFourTwo runs the rule over 10 top talents who are primed for the Prem – including exclusive...
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Friday 27 November 2009, 13:00
Welcome back, sports fans, to Video Stars, FourFourTwo ’s review of the best, worst and funniest football action the game has given us over the past seven days. Never afraid to tackle the big questions...
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Friday 27 November 2009, 09:00
Earlier this week, the dashing Tim Stannard of La Liga Loca was understandably pleased with himself after predicting nine games out of 10 correctly . Fair enough. I would be too. In a way, that's a...
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Tuesday 24 November 2009, 15:00
Arsenal's Robin van Persie and Liverpool's Yossi Bennynoon (copyright D. Pleat) have recently used horse placenta to recover from injury. But as Dan Ross discovers, the cure is often much less...
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Friday 20 November 2009, 12:00
More Premier League predictions from Huw Davies , who casts his eye over this week's offerings: T um ti tum... well, that was an uneventful week of international matches. H ang on a minute – wasn't...
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Friday 13 November 2009, 15:00
Bienvenue, benvenuto and willkommen to this week’s Video Stars, an intercontinental, cosmopolitan and multicultural haven for all things football. From Porto to Peterborough and Moscow to Melbourne, the...
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Tuesday 10 November 2009, 14:00
With England and Brazil shortly to clash in Qatar (where else?), Josh Pedley looks at Brazilians who came, saw and (sometimes) conquered at clubs like Arsenal, Bolton, Leeds, Middlesbrough, Newcastle and...
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Friday 06 November 2009, 15:00
Sam Smith brings you belters and balls-ups from Liverpool to Leverkusen, Marseille to Milan and Barcelona to the Bundesliga Greetings sports fans to the latest edition of Video Stars, our weekly review...
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Friday 06 November 2009, 12:00
It’s a good weekend for Arsenal to catch Manchester United, who look vulnerable to a free-scoring Chelsea, writes Huw Davies . And after their Hallowe’en nightmare at Fulham last weekend, Liverpool won...
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Tuesday 03 November 2009, 12:00
Saturday's game between Arsenal and Tottenham was eventful, but Dan Ross can name at least 10 better north London derbies... Tottenham 5-0 Arsenal 1983 Watch it here If there's nothing worse than...
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Friday 30 October 2009, 15:30
Huw Davies bravely steps forward to continue his predictions – including excitement at Arsenal vs Tottenham, amputation at Fulham vs Liverpool and farmyard frolics at Manchester United vs Blackburn......
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Friday 30 October 2009, 15:00
FFT.com editor Gary Parkinson on how Twitter almost claimed a victim – and it wasn't the Hull City manager This week, new media newsgathering almost ate itself. Things move quickly on Twitter. Ask...
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Friday 30 October 2009, 12:30
...in which Sam Smith rounds up the weeks' best goals and gaffes from the likes of Liverpool, Arsenal, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Everton, Leeds, Accrington Stanley and North Queensland Fury... Welcome...
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Tuesday 27 October 2009, 12:30
No, not in the sense of Rock Hudson's wife: Dan Ross investigates the finest face-fuzz flaunted by footballers David Beckham With England comfortably qualified, there was only one talking point during...
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Friday 23 October 2009, 15:30
Huw Davies is back with more inevitably inaccurate indications... All right, so the predictions last week weren't top. Three out of 10, we can agree, is not a good start to this thing. The most galling...
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Friday 23 October 2009, 11:00
Lock your office door and turn on the answering machine. Kick the kids off the computer and send your better half to the shops. Take a seat and put your feet up – because our weekly round-up of the world...
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Friday 16 October 2009, 13:00
Huw Davies predicts what will, and will not, happen in the Premier League this weekend... It appears to be a relatively quiet weekend in the English top-flight, with no major 'Big Four' clashes...
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Tuesday 13 October 2009, 16:00
With qualifying groups for South Africa 2010 finishing on Wednesday in Europe and the Americas, Dan Ross looks at 10 world-class players who may not grace the World Cup Leo Messi Watch him here Argentina...
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Wednesday 07 October 2009, 11:30
Premier League side Arsenal lead the way when it comes to entrants into FourFourTwo.com's Football Rich List 2009/10. Seven individuals on the list are in some way involved with the North Londoners...
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Wednesday 07 October 2009, 11:00
Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal isn’t one to shirk a challenge, and why should he be? After all, he’s gone from sleeping on the floor of his cramped family home to owning what was, for a time, the...
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Wednesday 07 October 2009, 11:00
The fact that four men under 30 feature among FourFourTwo.com's Football Rich List 2009/10 says a lot for the wages top Premier League and international players can expect to pocket - as all four ...
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Tuesday 06 October 2009, 14:00
Dan Ross takes a look at 10 men who continue to defy Father Time… Ryan Giggs At 35, most footballers are content with adding vital experience to the Championship’s promotion hopefuls or those clubs clinging...
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Tuesday 29 September 2009, 12:00
Dan Ross takes a look at the 10 best football computer games… With a rivalry to equal anything that the real game can provide, and arguments between virtual devotees going round in more circles than Shakira...
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Monday 28 September 2009, 13:39
On the face of it, this didn't look like being a cracker of a weekend in Premier League land, but in actual fact we were treated to some thoroughly entertaining fare. Chelsea lost their unbeaten record...
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Friday 25 September 2009, 12:44
The other day, conversation in the FourFourTwo office turned to noses. We'd noticed that a few Premier League managers had notable noses, not to say some sizeable schnozzes. From Steve Bruce's...
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Tuesday 22 September 2009, 12:11
If it’s Tuesday, it must be time for a 10. This week, FFT.com’s Dan Ross brings you the 10 most controversial goal celebrations... It’s safe to say Emmanuel Adebayor’s antagonistic antics against his former...
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Monday 21 September 2009, 12:50
An impartial FFT jury assess the weekend's top-flight performances out of 10... Chelsea 9 (beat Spurs 3-0) Picked up United's gauntlet by overcoming a determined and decent Spurs team. Ancelotti's...
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Wednesday 16 September 2009, 08:30
Last week thing’s looked to be going swimmingly for Harry Redknapp, what with Spurs going into last weekend’s matches second in the Premier League after four wins from their opening four games. So swimmingly...
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Tuesday 15 September 2009, 12:30
As Arsenal’s appeal against UEFA's Eduardo ban is miraculously upheld, Dan Ross looks at 10 dives that could justify some retrospective action… 1. Adriano, Roma vs INTER, April 2007 Despite all the...
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Wednesday 02 September 2009, 08:00
The new issue of FourFourTwo is in the shops now. There are many ways in which it will enrich your knowledge and life. Firstly, columns by experts. Don't miss the new regular column by football's...
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Friday 14 August 2009, 12:00
If we’re being honest, we all think we know better than even the Premier League’s finest managers. And now you’ve now got the chance to prove you can mix it with the best, thanks to the FourFourTwo Fantasy...
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Friday 31 July 2009, 16:00
Summer? Pah. Just a waste of time until the main event comes back. And it's back, as ever heralded by the harbinger of high-class magazinual entertainment, FourFourTwo - with its perennially popular...
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Friday 17 July 2009, 14:00
Why one winger's transfer could spell doom for the EPL – but joy for England... Earlier this month, an English player slipped quietly abroad in a transfer which could have big ramifications for the...
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Wednesday 15 July 2009, 10:00
So Mark Hughes thinks John Terry should join Manchester City for the "challenge." It's an admirable thought, but we think the all-action centre-back should set his sights a little higher...
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Friday 10 July 2009, 14:00
The votes are in. The dates are booked. The trailers are being filmed, the voiceovers bellowed. Premier League games are coming to a small screen near you, in five short weeks' time. Having haggled...
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Wednesday 17 June 2009, 09:00
With the Premier League fixtures for 2009/10 announced on Wednesday morning, we look back at some of the most memorable moments from the Premier League opening days of yore... 10) Chelsea v Sunderland...
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Sunday 14 June 2009, 12:00
And so we bring to a close our look back at the 25 transfers that shook the world. Not literally, you understand; figuratively. Starting with one which changed the way transfers are conducted... Jean-Marc...
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Saturday 13 June 2009, 12:00
As Real Madrid noisily go about assembling a fantasy football team, we look back through the FourFourTwo archives to remind ourselves that shocking transfers are nothing new. Here's some more examples...
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Friday 12 June 2009, 14:00
Kaka? Pah. Ronaldo? No. Continuing our look back at 25 transfers that shook football to its boots... Steve Daley, Wolves to Manchester City £1.4375 million, September 1979 Before the Premier League’s standards...
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Thursday 11 June 2009, 14:00
With the world record for a transfer fee set to be shattered in the next few days, Real Madrid seem to be on a personal crusade to hijack this blog. The £56 million spent on Monday to sign Kaka will be...
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Wednesday 10 June 2009, 12:00
So Kaka’s move to Real Madrid has sort of broken the world record for a transfer fee – if you use pounds as the measurement; thanks to decreased value of sterling to the Euro during the recent recession...
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Thursday 21 May 2009, 15:00
Welcome! The bank holiday weekend nears, but not before we've enjoyed the previous week's finest fruit (and a couple of pips). And so, in alphabetical order, here's the best half-dozen. Let's...
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Thursday 14 May 2009, 15:00
Another week, another collection of crackers and handful of howlers. Let's get it on. 1) Alanzinho (Kocaelispor v Trabzonspor ) The superbly-named Brazilian sends a bender round the unsighted keeper...
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Monday 11 May 2009, 12:30
Huw Davies peruses the PowerTable stats ahead of Monday night's do-or-die relegation dogfight... St. James' Park hosts the biggest six-pointer of the season as Newcastle take on Middlesbrough....
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Friday 08 May 2009, 15:00
Huw Davies peruses the PowerTable stats ahead of this weekend's crucial Premier League clash... Liverpool travel to Upton Park on Saturday looking to usurp Manchester United at the top of the table...
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Friday 08 May 2009, 14:00
Top-flight managers, eh? They come in, make loud noises about the need for organisation and discipline, and start telling players what to do. But what did they ever achieve wearing boots? We wondered that...
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Thursday 07 May 2009, 15:30
Right, we're all busy people. Let's get down to it - here are the top six Goals Of The Week... 1. Michael Essien (Chelsea) vs Barcelona It all went pear-shaped in the end for Chelsea, but what...
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Thursday 30 April 2009, 12:00
Swoosh! Pow! Blam! Zok! No, we haven’t resurrected the camp 1960s version of Batman. Instead, that is the sound of the best goals from all over the world flying into nets past despairing goalkeepers’ outstretched...
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Tuesday 28 April 2009, 07:30
Football and music: two of this country's greatest passions. No wonder rock's lyricists, searching for the common touch, have often referenced footballers in their ditties. Presenting 10 of the...
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Thursday 23 April 2009, 15:00
In a noticeably lyrical press conference, Roy Keane has outlined the reasons for joining Ipswich Town, describing his alienation while unemployed since leaving Sunderland – and hinting that he may now...
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Thursday 23 April 2009, 12:00
Goals? Check. Brilliant goals? Check. Own goals? Check. Other assorted foul-ups? Check. It can only be Video Stars. We’ve rounded up the top six super strikes of the week below. But before we get into...
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Thursday 16 April 2009, 13:00
Welcome back sports fans to our weekly round-up of the best and worst football action from around the globe. Our international network of spies have been scouring their respective leagues for the top strikes...
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Wednesday 15 April 2009, 11:00
Anthony Teasdale was 17 when he made the trip from Liverpool to Sheffield for the FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest... The thing I remember most is the look on people’s faces as we arrived back...
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Thursday 09 April 2009, 13:00
Welcome back, one and all, to Video Stars. Are you primed and ready for some more stupendous strikes and stupid stuff-ups from the week’s football action? We hope so... But before we dive right into our...
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Tuesday 07 April 2009, 12:30
With an MEP lobbying to change the historical records, FFT.com's Rob Burnett looks at that and nine other what-might-have-beens Fans of every football club cling on to some questionable occurences...
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Monday 06 April 2009, 14:00
James Maw of FFT.com's sister site Talentspotter marks this weekend's Premier League performances out of 10. Rate the players by following the links – or argue your point below... MANCHESTER UNITED...
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Friday 03 April 2009, 14:00
It’s PowerTable time again folks, as FourFourTwo turns to Catalyst’s analytical tool to predict how Premier League fixtures will unfold. Manchester United vs Aston Villa and Fulham vs Liverpool dominate...
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Tuesday 31 March 2009, 15:00
FFT.com's Rob Burnett casts his eye over 10 football forfeits... Judging by Rio Ferdinand’s attempt to become the new Jeremy Beadle by ‘merking’ his England teammates in his World Cup Wind Ups programme...
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Tuesday 31 March 2009, 14:00
Fabio Capello has reacted calmly to England’s injury crisis by recalling George Camsell from the international wilderness – despite the forward’s death 43 years ago. With Darren Bent having joined Emile...
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Monday 30 March 2009, 10:00
Any awards ceremony carries a high risk of repetitive strain injury. With spirits high in an atmosphere of celebration, applause is in such plentiful supply that the forearms ache long before the final...
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Saturday 28 March 2009, 17:15
Sometimes, a new approach pays dividends. It's perhaps too early to tell, but the new-model England seems to employ an attractive simplicity which belies several clever subtleties upon closer inspection...
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Thursday 26 March 2009, 14:00
Roll up, roll up and welcome to Video Stars. Within a few short paragraphs we’ll bring you the best six goals of the week but before that, have a look at the ones which, like Gazza for France 98, didn...
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Wednesday 25 March 2009, 15:00
Award-winning author, Jonathan Wilson , on how to write a best-seller... These pieces are horrible to write. It’s not just that I’m not getting paid for it – to be fair, it is mainly because I’m not getting...
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Wednesday 25 March 2009, 10:00
It was inevitable, wasn’t it? Sunday evening’s announcement that Ledley King would be in the squad for England’s games against Slovakia and Ukraine was met with understandable surprise from fans and the...
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Tuesday 24 March 2009, 15:00
FFT.com's Rob Burnett finds the 10 best goal celebrations on YouTube Once upon a time, goal celebrations weren’t all that watchable. Ask Frenchman Lucien Laurent, the first man ever to score a World...
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Monday 23 March 2009, 15:00
James Maw of FFT.com's sister site Talentspotter marks this weekend's Premier League performances out of 10. Rate the players by following the links – or argue your point below LIVERPOOL 9.5 (won...
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Thursday 19 March 2009, 12:00
Welcome to the weekly Video Star blog, rounding up the best goals and worst gaffes of the last seven days. In a moment we’ll bring you our six choices for Goal Of The Week – but first, the funnies… OGGY...
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Wednesday 18 March 2009, 15:00
Admit it: you miss Jose Mourinho. Last week's fleeting return with Inter was like a favourite uncle dropping in on Boxing Day: full of wit, stories and presents, then dashing off before tea, leaving...
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Monday 16 March 2009, 13:30
In the wake of what the Daily Mail will shortly be calling rape-gate (maybe), FFT's James Maw looks back on some other instances of footballers testing the censors when talking on the tellybox... What...
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Friday 13 March 2009, 14:30
Consider two quotes from Fernando Torres, taken from an interview with FourFourTwo magazine, published in early February. 1. “Everyone at the club is completely focused on winning the league; it’s more...
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Friday 13 March 2009, 12:00
FFT.com’s Rob Burnett sifts through the best and worst of the week’s action.. Welcome again to Video Stars where, as usual, we round up the good, the bad, and the downright Iain Dowie-like ugly of the...
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Wednesday 11 March 2009, 12:00
After Liverpool's systematic dismantling of Real Madrid, many are understandably tipping the Merseysiders for Champions League glory this year. It's written in the stars, they say. Liverpool won...
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Friday 06 March 2009, 13:00
FFT.com’s Rob Burnett summarises the best and worst of the week’s action.. It's amazing how footballers manage to oscillate between brilliance and ineptitude, sometimes in the same match. It's...
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Friday 27 February 2009, 15:00
FFT.com’s Rob Burnett has sifted through the best and worst of the week’s action.. Well folks, those cheeky footballers have been at it again. All over the globe they’ve been covering themselves in glory...
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Friday 20 February 2009, 15:00
Last weekend's Celtic-Rangers "clash" was a tepid affair. FFT.com's man in Glasgow, Chris Cope , wonders if that's the shape of things to come... Glasgow staged its third Old Firm...
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Friday 20 February 2009, 12:00
Rob Burnett rounds up the week's best goals and gaffes from around the world... In this week’s Video Stars we have a veritable cornucopia of horrendous howlers and superlative strikes so let’s dive...
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Tuesday 17 February 2009, 15:00
By now, several of you will have realised that your season isn't going to go quite to plan. Some will fear that it could turn out terribly; some will already kn ow it has. But take heart: there's...
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Friday 13 February 2009, 11:45
FFT.com's Rob Burnett rounds up the week's best – and worst – videos Welcome, dear readers, to this week’s collection of humdingers and howlers as we chart the eternal quest of the world’s footballers...
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Thursday 12 February 2009, 12:00
Tony Adams isn’t the only man to get the boot in strange and/or unfortunate circumstances, as Rob Burnett discovers… Poor old Tony Adams. Getting the sack is never nice, but apparently Pompey chief executive...
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Monday 09 February 2009, 16:00
Theory 1: Scolari was the New Clough Roughly seven weeks from now, The Damned United will open in cinemas up and down the country. Adapted from David Peace’s darkly brilliant novel imagining Brian Clough...
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Friday 30 January 2009, 12:00
FFT.com rounds up the brilliance and buffoonery from the world of football. Enjoy… OOPS! Right, who wants to see a free-kick bounce off the post and smack into a helpless goalkeeper's face? If you...
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Friday 23 January 2009, 14:00
There is perhaps only one thing better than watching people who are paid to play football produce a sublime bit of skill or score a spectacular goal. And that is seeing them make a total hash of it! We've...
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Friday 16 January 2009, 15:00
New year, same old story. Every week around the globe, footballers oscillate between brilliance and idiocy. And every Friday, the Video Stars blog is there to filter the best and worst of it, just for...
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Wednesday 14 January 2009, 11:30
You don’t need FourFourTwo to tell you that £15m a year is an awful lot of money. Even with spending money for Mrs Kaka ( Carolina ), it’s fair to say that, should he join Manchester City , Kaka will be...
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Friday 09 January 2009, 11:00
There’s an old saying that the only way to make a small fortune in football is to start off with a big one and then buy a club. Investing in the beautiful game is usually one of the surest ways to watch...
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Thursday 08 January 2009, 15:00
The Rich List has caused its usual flurry of excitement – we’ve barely had time for a cup of tea, and that’s very bad news. But what’s worse is that some people seem to be as confused as City bankers,...
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Thursday 08 January 2009, 13:00
Recession is coming to get football, says Professor Tom Cannon . And he’s right. Abramovich, Mittal and Usmanov have already seen their fortunes seriously reduced and the next 12 months will test the mettle...
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Thursday 08 January 2009, 12:30
If QPR investor Lakshmi Mittal wants something, money is no object. When he wanted Bernie Ecclestone’s home in Kensington Palace Gardens in 2004, he bought it for £57 million. When his daughter got married...
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Tuesday 06 January 2009, 23:30
Football finance expert Professor Tom Cannon gives FourFourTwo the lowdown on what to expect over the next 12 months… The Gap Gets Wider "The first thing that happens to football during a recession...
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Tuesday 06 January 2009, 23:00
“Trillion dollar man” screamed the headlines as Abu Dhabi moneybags Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan took control of Manchester City, blasting the Blues' bank balance into the stratosphere, and the...
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Tuesday 06 January 2009, 22:15
No turnstiles, no tickets, no huge wage demands. Late 19th-century football was a serene place… until money came along and turned it into the monster we love and loathe today. The first recorded outbreak...
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Tuesday 06 January 2009, 22:00
Minted and bored? Don’t despair, you can always buy your own football club/playboy’s plaything. But before you hand over that suitcase of cash, consult takeover whiz Keith Harris. A trained economist and...
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Tuesday 06 January 2009, 14:00
Just when you thought you could get through January without hearing about finances, out comes FourFourTwo’s Football Rich List. The vagaries of economics have become a necessarily popular conversational...
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Friday 19 December 2008, 14:15
Tis the season to be jolly, and nothing provokes mirth like an own goal , particularly from the league leaders. (It's only human nature, don't fight it.) So let's start with Liverpool's...
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Friday 19 December 2008, 12:00
We’re going to have to make an apology straight off the bat this week. Due to the spectacular changes afoot on Talentspotter we’ve been a forced to work like dogs getting things on our sister site up to...
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Friday 19 December 2008, 10:00
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Judging by the paucity of decent reads available in the national press, most hacks are already down the Cucumber & Hearing Aid chasing the secretaries...
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Friday 12 December 2008, 15:30
VIDEO STARS! The best goals, gaffes and gormless actions of the last week, all collected together for you... There was a pleasing variety of own goals across Europe this weekend, with players getting into...
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Friday 12 December 2008, 15:00
"And now, the end is near..." We've reached the end of FFT.com's best 50 football books ever, dear reader, and hope we've helped you sort the wheat from the chaff of the oodles of...
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Friday 12 December 2008, 13:00
As the nights draw in, the weather becomes ever more bitterly cold and the neon-yellow ball comes out, we console ourselves with the knowledge that a season of much joy is almost upon us A season when...
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Friday 12 December 2008, 10:00
HANDY READ! FFT.com's round-up of the best pieces in this morning's press Times are tough for last season's European champions. Naughty Wayne's stamping his feet again, they've all...
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Thursday 11 December 2008, 15:00
Come one, come all to the penultimate part of FFT.com's best 50 football books ever. If you missed numbers 50 to 41, they're here , while 40-31 can be found here and 30-21 here . Scroll down for...
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Wednesday 10 December 2008, 16:00
Hello and welcome to the third installment of FFT.com's best 50 football books ever. If you missed numbers 50 to 41, they're here , while 40-31 can be found here . Read on for the next batch.....
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Tuesday 09 December 2008, 15:00
Welcome to Chapter Two of our rundown of the best 50 football books ever. If you missed numbers 50 to 41, they're here . Or read on for more... 40 Walking On Water Brian Clough 2002 There are some...
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Monday 08 December 2008, 15:30
Stuck for a book this Christmas? Don't buy a cash-in autobiography just because you know the player. FourFourTwo assembled a panel of experts – including several writers – to vote on the best 50 football...
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Monday 08 December 2008, 15:00
Let's be honest: bar the cracker at Goodison, this was hardly an enthralling weekend of Premier League action. Here's how we rated the 18 teams that played on Saturday and Sunday in terms of performance...
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Friday 05 December 2008, 15:30
VIDEO STARS OF THE WEEK: FFT.com brings you the finest and funniest action from the past seven days. Starting, of course, with own goals... OGGY OGGY OGGY When Brian Clough said it only takes a second...
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Friday 05 December 2008, 13:00
Imagine the frustration if you can. You start to craft the Premier League preview blog for this weekend’s fixtures, and at the forefront of your mind is the return of one Royston Q. Keane to his spiritual...
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Friday 05 December 2008, 08:00
You might not have noticed, but Roy Keane has left Sunderland. Predictably, plenty of paper acres have been devoted to discussion of it this morning. Unusually, much of the result is readable. First, the...
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Thursday 04 December 2008, 15:00
Another year passes, giving us time to look back on the highs and the lows, the good and the bad, and all the terrifically exciting things you’ve missed out on over the past 12 months which you just can...
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Monday 01 December 2008, 10:00
HANDY READ! FFT.com's round-up of the best football columns to while away the minutes "What is truly important is being happy now. I know I haven’t given 100 per cent physically or mentally to...
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Friday 28 November 2008, 13:00
VIDEO ROUND-UP! FFT.com's digest of the week's best – and funniest – action... We know what you like. You're human, so you like to see other people's misfortune. And if Mel Brooks was right...
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Friday 28 November 2008, 12:00
If the year 2008 is remembered for anything, it won’t be for that US Election caper, Gordon Brown knocking over the economy and then fixing it with gaffer tape or even Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand insulting...
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Friday 28 November 2008, 09:00
Handy Read! FFT digests the best of the morning's newspaper articles for your pleasure... Who'd be a Chelsea fan? It must be terrible being top of the league, managed by a World Cup winner and...
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Tuesday 25 November 2008, 08:00
FourFourTwo's Deputy Editor Matthew Weiner on the new chief Gunner... So Cesc is captain. It’s everything that Arsenal fans dreamed of, isn’t it? The Gunners’ one genuine world-class player, talisman...
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Monday 24 November 2008, 11:00
Handy Read! FFT.com presents the best of the weekend's football writing. Your opinions are welcome... So Tottenham are out of the bottom three, and jubilation reigns across half of North London as...
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Friday 21 November 2008, 16:30
Because the draw for the 2009 Confederations Cup is held tomorrow in South Africa, we've been sent this photograph. Because it's Friday afternoon and to us that counts as the weekend, we wondered...
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Friday 21 November 2008, 13:30
FourFourTwo.com would like to begin this week’s blog by apologising on behalf of our newspaper, radio and television cousins, following an almighty storm of hysteria that, frankly, saw them get a bit over...
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Wednesday 19 November 2008, 19:00
We know the folks over at the BBC work incredibly hard across a startling array of media outlets. We love the majority of what they do for football. And we're painfully aware of how mistakes can happen...
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Friday 14 November 2008, 12:30
If life is like a box of chocolates, then football is like an aircraft hanger full of chocolate-coated random number generators - frankly, nobody has a sodding clue what’s going to happen next. No sooner...
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Thursday 13 November 2008, 10:00
Anyone who's watched young siblings fight will know that when there's a squabble, nobody wins. There's anger, there's often violence, then there are tears and recriminations, then a stilted...
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Tuesday 11 November 2008, 10:00
FourFourTwo 's trip to South Africa with the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK is imminent and we're afraid there's good news and bad. The bad news is that FourFourTwo 's hopes of...
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Friday 07 November 2008, 17:00
FFT.com's Ben Welch reflects on some absentees from the Best Players In The World list ... Between them they have collected 196 international caps and scored 57 goals, but neither of them could make...
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Friday 07 November 2008, 16:00
Desperate times, as they say, call for desperate measures. Unless, of course, you’re Arsene Wenger, in which case desperate times call for a whole bucket-load of whinging. This week Professor Yaffle has...
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Friday 07 November 2008, 09:00
This week we’re having a look at the progress being made by the Premier League’s great and good, using information provided to us by our friends at Catalyst, using their PowerTable . On Monday we looked...
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Thursday 06 November 2008, 14:17
There's been but one issue discussed around water coolers, on radio phone-ins and on internet messageboards worldwide this week - the 2008 incarnation of FourFourTwo ’s Top 100 Players in the World...
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Wednesday 05 November 2008, 16:00
Using Catalyst’s PowerTable , we're analysing how each Premier League side has started the season, comparing their performance in the first 11 matches to the first 11 of last season and trying to gauge...
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Wednesday 05 November 2008, 00:00
Ronaldo, Messi, Torres, Casillas, Kaka, Villa, Ibrahimovic, Aguero, Ferdinand, Gerrard. No, it's not Man City's January shopping list: it's our Top 10, the FourFourTwo verdict on the best players...
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Tuesday 04 November 2008, 23:30
FFT.com's Gregg Davies checks in with another helping of life on tour with Chelsea... Full-time in Rome: 10-8. Not Tuesday night’s Champions League showdown between Chelsea and Roma; it was, in fact...
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Tuesday 04 November 2008, 16:12
As anyone who's been listening to our ramblings will know, we're very big fans of Catalyst's PowerTable here at FourFourTwo.com Towers (for a full explanation of the madcap world of the PowerTable...
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Tuesday 04 November 2008, 15:00
If a week is a long time in football or politics, a year can seem an eternity. Last autumn, FourFourTwo magazine’s inaugural list of the 100 Best Players in the World was topped by Ricardo Izecson dos...
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Tuesday 04 November 2008, 10:45
FFT's Gregg Davies cadges a luxurious lift with the league leaders Ever wondered what it’s like to live the life of a professional footballer? So did we, and luckily we’ve had the chance to find out...
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Saturday 01 November 2008, 12:00
Played the New Football Pools yet? Then what are you waiting for? All you need to do is take a peek at our list of high-profile matches taking place each weekend. You then choose a home win, an away win...
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Friday 31 October 2008, 18:34
On Monday we passed on our pearls of football wisdom and explained to anyone that would listen (and indeed read) why Chelsea losing at home to Liverpool may just help their title bid . We say ‘our pearls...
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Friday 31 October 2008, 13:00
The bastardised political cliché is true: a week really is a long time in football. Last Friday, when FourFourTwo.com put its writing hat on and skilfully sculpted its Premier League Preview blog, the...
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Wednesday 29 October 2008, 12:00
Until Phil Gartside’s dastardly plans come into fruition and the division is reduced to 18 teams, there is always going to be the need for a couple of midweek matchdays in the Premier League calendar....
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Monday 27 October 2008, 13:00
It might seem strange, given that Sunday’s defeat left them three points behind Liverpool with a quarter of the season played, but we reckon that Chelsea finally relinquishing their unbeaten home record...
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Friday 24 October 2008, 15:00
It seems every season for the last 15 has been the season Liverpool will finally make a real push for the title. The fact of the matter is that since the Premier League started (which as any keen viewer...
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Friday 17 October 2008, 13:00
Amidst all the darkness, misery and sombre montages of Spurs players looking pained (as seen every 15 minutes on Sky Sports News for the last week), there is at least one man who’s found time to raise...
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Friday 10 October 2008, 15:00
Last month FourFourTwo.com used our sister site FootballTalentSpotter.com to help advice England boss Fabio Capello who to pick in his squad for the away matches with Andorra and Croatia. Among the names...
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Friday 03 October 2008, 15:00
It’s been a hectic old week here at FourFourTwo.com towers. Still reeling from Arsenal messing up our Footy15 coupon, we were further antagonised to learn that the website of a national newspaper had half...
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Friday 26 September 2008, 13:30
Phew, what a week! Arsenal ’s youngsters murder Sheffield United (in a footballing sense, no need for ASBOs here), Brighton , who had days earlier lost to nine-man Walsall, beat the billionaires of Manchester...
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Friday 19 September 2008, 13:30
Curse these European midweeks! No sooner have we returned from an annoyingly scheduled international break than we have a Premier League Saturday with just three 3pm kickoffs, thanks in no small part to...
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Thursday 18 September 2008, 16:00
It's not every day you get an e-mail from the widow of arguably England's greatest ever footballer saying she's looking forward to doing some digging with you. The lady in question was Stephanie...
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Wednesday 17 September 2008, 16:00
In 2008, a hapless Kent football club was sent to League Two for football crimes they actually did commit. These men then promptly travelled to deepest, darkest Shropshire on Saturday afternoon. Today...
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Monday 15 September 2008, 16:00
Following the Brazilian's goalscoring debut for Manchester City, FFT.com's James Maw takes a look back on other net-bothering debutantes.... When Robinho’s delicately weighted free-kick hit the...
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Friday 12 September 2008, 12:00
Well, we didn’t see that one coming. No less than 12 days after we claimed that there was still an element of surprise left in the English game, the national team romp to a unexpected if not unwelcome...
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Tuesday 09 September 2008, 17:00
Preston chairman Derek Shaw has confirmed the club are ready to enter negotiations to sell a share of the club to David Beckham. The statement was a reaction to comments made by Beckham in this month’s...
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Monday 08 September 2008, 17:00
If European football’s elite are good for anything, it’s ensuring those at the pinnacle of the game get adequate recognition for their achievements. Bearing that in mind, it’s time to warmly welcome another...
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Friday 05 September 2008, 17:42
Bonkers old week in FFT world, what with the transfer deadline and Keegan leaving and Keegan coming back and Keegan leaving and Curbishley leaving and some blokes from Abu Dhabi arriving. We’ve barely...
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Friday 05 September 2008, 13:00
Earlier in the week FourFourTwo.com was able to exclusively reveal the deciding factor in Fabio Capello’s decision to include Jimmy Bullard in his squad for Saturday’s game with Andorra and Wednesday night...
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Tuesday 02 September 2008, 20:00
Everton and Spurs have long been touted as the two teams most likely to eventually break up the quartopoly (if this isn’t a real word it should be) of Man United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool, but have...
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Tuesday 02 September 2008, 16:00
If a week is a long time in politics, a day’s an eternity in football. On Monday morning Manchester City were a club without a rudder and Newcastle were signing exotic foreigners; by Tuesday lunchtime...
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Tuesday 02 September 2008, 10:00
What better way to spend a Monday than eagerly watching the likes of lovable Scottish ‘cheeky chappie’ Jim White and his fellow sports news presenters aimlessly stumble their way through a whole raft of...
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Monday 01 September 2008, 13:00
Tucked away tightly between a high-scoring weekend of Premier League action and an almost certainly equally frantic transfer deadline day, Fabio Capello last night named his first competitive England squad...
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Monday 01 September 2008, 12:00
THE POWERTABLE It may sound like one of those Black & Decker DIY gizmos your dad used to get at Christmas, but the PowerTable is the result of extensive number crunching by Catalyst (a Hertfordshire...
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Friday 29 August 2008, 15:41
Ignore what the miserable old naysayers on other football websites tell you about the Premier League becoming predictable and ‘stale’; the element of surprise in English football is still alive and well...
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Wednesday 27 August 2008, 19:00
One of the many things we do for you, gentle reader, is to wade through magnificently dull press releases in search of nuggets, like truffle pigs of the truth. So when an email arrived with a small electronic...
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Friday 22 August 2008, 15:00
Here we are then, the business end of the season. With Stoke all but relegated, Manchester United out of the title race and Spurs with no chance of making the top four, there doesn’t seem much left to...
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Wednesday 20 August 2008, 15:30
A thought struck the other night, while watching Ashley Young. What happens when he turns 30, and can’t be described – in football terms – as Young any more? It’s a real concern to team-mate Luke Young...
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Sunday 17 August 2008, 18:43
The 2008/09 season is well and truly underway. But which players are the form horses and who are the carthorses? Some players are off to fliers with their new clubs: Deco scored a belter for Chelsea ,...
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Friday 18 July 2008, 15:09
There are very few of us blessed with the natural talent to fulfil our boyhood dreams and grace the pro ranks. Even fewer manage to graduate from the dog poo littered fields of park football to the professional...
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Monday 30 June 2008, 11:51
By FourFourTwo's guest columnist, Tim Stannard of La Liga Loca When La Liga Loca was woken on Sunday by the sound of car horns and honking hooters (not those kind), it thought for one horrified moment...
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Friday 27 June 2008, 12:57
By FourFourTwo's guest columnist, Tim Stannard of La Liga Loca In an event that stunned string-theory scientists and had soothsayers gloomily picking through entrails with warnings of an imminent End...
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Monday 23 June 2008, 11:46
By FourFourTwo's guest columnist, Tim Stannard of La Liga Loca If Cesc Fabregas wasn’t the Spaniard with the biggest pair of cojones you’ve ever seen on Sunday night, then it was the nut job your correspondent...
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Monday 23 June 2008, 09:33
By FourFourTwo guest columnist Riccardo Rossi of Serie Aaaaargh! Not since Rudi Voeller and Frank Rijkaard had their little spat (or spit) at Italia 90 have we seen such a dodgy moustache in a major tournament...
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Friday 20 June 2008, 13:49
By FourFourTwo's guest columnist, Tim Stannard of La Liga Loca Spain manager, Luis Aragonés has been accused of being almost everything imaginable during his four year spell in charge of La Furia Roja...
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Wednesday 18 June 2008, 11:34
By FourFourTwo guest columnist Riccardo Rossi of Serie Aaaaargh! From utter despair and grumblings of a fix, to joy unabated: Italy in a nutshell. Wednesday dawned bright and warm right across the peninsula...
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Monday 16 June 2008, 16:00
By FourFourTwo's guest columnist, Tim Stannard of La Liga Loca Two years ago in the hot hot heat of Spain's doomed World Cup campaign, Marca ran a headline ahead of their second round clash with...
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Monday 16 June 2008, 00:03
NOW it’s a tournament. The true measure of quality of these biennial gatherings lies not in the major games or high-profile clashes, but in the surprisingly good offerings on the undercard. Presumably...
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Thursday 12 June 2008, 11:55
By FourFourTwo guest columnist Riccardo Rossi of Serie Aaaaargh! The writing may not yet be on the wall, but it certainly has been in the text messages reportedly coming out of the Italy camp on the back...
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Wednesday 11 June 2008, 12:53
By FourFourTwo's guest columnist, Tim Stannard of La Liga Loca When Valencia's sulky striker David Villa popped in his third effort in Spain's roasting of Russia, La Liga Loca got a cheeky...
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Wednesday 28 May 2008, 12:49
Emotionally drained. Physically battered. Frankly, finding it hard to care less after a tiring season giving everything for their clubs. And that's just the fans. The end of the domestic season has...
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Friday 02 May 2008, 12:01
"Who is best foreigner to have played in England other than myself? No, sorry, I can’t think of anyone better than me. Only joking. There are so many. I couldn’t pick one." Gianfranco Zola may...
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Tuesday 25 March 2008, 15:54
Part of a 'captaincy rotation' policy or not, Fabio Capello's decision to give Rio Ferdinand the armband against France in Paris is a key moment in the career of the player allegedly dubbed...
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Monday 10 March 2008, 17:58
Football hostilities – on and off the pitch - in the Colombian city of Cali reached a new low on Saturday night as a mass riot during the heated derby match between America de Cali and Deportivo Cali forced...
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Wednesday 05 March 2008, 14:17
Over the last decade, Arsenal fans have grown fond of saying that Arsene Knows. Admittedly, the phrase loses currency when the Gunners get ‘tatered at White Hart Lane or Old Trafford, but when Arsenal...
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Monday 18 February 2008, 14:32
Donald Trump’s $2.9 billion fortune may have failed to fund a convincing hairpiece, but the American businessman isn’t short of wisdom that the average football supporter – and chairman – could learn from...
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Tuesday 12 February 2008, 17:12
"Money, money, money, must be funny, in a rich man’s world". Working at FourFourTwo, we’re in no position to confirm Abba’s assertion that a large wedge leads to lifetime of hilarity. But if...
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Thursday 07 February 2008, 19:19
"All clubs are equal. But some clubs are more equal than others." That, sadly, could be the motto of the Premier League in recent years. The gradual erosion of competition via uneven division...
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Thursday 07 February 2008, 12:10
“What do you mean David Beckham’s not playing?” It seems like dad had waited until the last possible minute – namely, the Tube ride to Wembley – to break the news to his (roughly) 10-year-old son that...
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Thursday 07 February 2008, 10:22
Welcome one and all to the new FourFourTwo.com – at last (we hope) a website to complement FourFourTwo , the best football magazine in the whole wide world. Whether you’re a returning regular, one of our...
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