Nick Harper
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El World Cup Diario, Day 13: Back home (via the realm of despair)
By Nick Harper last updated
El World Cup Diario Nick Harper prepares to welcome home England's brave Lions after bowing out in Brazil...

Jury's out for Stoke fans as Hughes' popularity tumbles despite Spurs win
By Nick Harper last updated
Premier League FourFourTwo and Forza Football have surveyed 200,000 fans of Premier League clubs to gauge their confidence in their team's manager, players and chairman/owner. Here, Nick Harper picks through the findings to see how Stoke fans' mood has changed over the season...

A third of Liverpool fans have lost all confidence in Rodgers since September slide
By Nick Harper last updated
Premier League FourFourTwo and Forza Football have surveyed 200,000 fans of Premier League clubs to gauge their confidence in their team's manager, players and chairman/owner. Here, Nick Harper picks through the findings to see how Liverpool fans' mood has changed over the season...

El World Cup Diario, Day 18: Tempers, tickets and truffle shuffles
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El World Cup Diario Nick Harper's latest musings on the South American showpiece, a day when the temperature soared and the gloves came off...

The FourFourTwo Preview: Stoke vs Tottenham
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Premier League Premier League | Britannia Stadium | Sat 26 Apr | 3pm

El World Cup Diario, Day 19: Apologies and lies... but honest ones
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El World Cup Diario Nick Harper reflects on another day in World Cup Land, when Luis Suarez (him again), Arjen Robben and toffees grabbed the headlines...

The FourFourTwo Preview: Burnley vs Sunderland
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Premier League Premier League | Turf Moor | Sat 20 Sep | 3pm

El World Cup Diario, Day 32: The end of the world (cup)
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El World Cup Diario We've reached the end, ladies and gents. Nick Harper reflects...

Andy Gray: Ask A Silly Question
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Ask A Silly Question Andy Gray answers silly questions in February 2005, and reveals a little too much...

The FourFourTwo Preview: Netherlands vs Argentina
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World Cup 2014 World Cup Semi-Final | Sao Paulo | Wed 9 Jul | 9pm

El World Cup Diario, Day 21: A day of rest. With Jean-Claude Van Damme
By Nick Harper last updated
El World Cup Diario Nick Harper's getting all in a tizz with no World Cup footballery going on to discuss in his World Cup diary...

Survey finds Palace fans' confidence in board, manager and players on the wane
By Nick Harper last updated
Premier League FourFourTwo and Forza Football have surveyed 200,000 fans of Premier League clubs to gauge their confidence in their team's manager, players and chairman/owner. Here, Nick Harper picks through the findings to see how Crystal Palace fans' mood has changed over the season...

The Last 16 of Justice: How the World Cup would look if the refs had got the big calls right
By Nick Harper last updated
World Cup 2014 FFT's resident conspiracy thoerist, Nick Harper, calculates exactly how the 2014 World Cup group stages would and should have panned out had the men in black been on the money. The sound you can hear is straws being clutched...

The FourFourTwo Preview: USA vs Germany
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World Cup 2014 World Cup Group G | Recife | Thu 26 Jun | 5pm

El World Cup Diario, Day 12: Goal storm helps World Cup overcome s*** storm
By Nick Harper last updated
El World Cup Diario And on the 12th day, a filthy great cloud appeared overhead and threatened to rain on Brazil’s parade. Nick Harper explains...

El World Cup Diario, Day 26: Dr Voodoo, Lazarus and evil Gus Parker
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El World Cup Diario Nick Harper swats up on the dark arts ahead of Tuesday's first World Cup semi-final in Belo Horizonte...

El World Cup Diario, Day 11: Permutations, push bikes and finger pointing aplenty
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El World Cup Diario Nick Harper assesses the state of play as we pass the halfway point of the 2014 World Cup...

Terry Butcher: Ask A Silly Question
By Nick Harper last updated
Ask A Silly Question Terry Butcher answers surreal questions for FourFourTwo back in November 2005, and soon regrets it.

El World Cup Diario, Day 28: The show must go on
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El World Cup Diario Nick Harper wades through the wreckage following the host nation's historic World Cup semi-final exit...

The FourFourTwo Preview: Sunderland vs Crystal Palace
By Nick Harper last updated
Premier League Premier League | Stadium of Light | Sat 15 Mar | 3pm

El World Cup Diario, Day 2: Crushing disappointments
By Nick Harper last updated
El World Cup Diario Nick Harper reviews the World Cup's second day...

Don't read all about it: Mundanity, meddling and muting in football journalism
By Nick Harper last updated
Premier League Raheem Sterling's arrival in Manchester highlighted a worrying trend of mind-numbing footballer interaction, writes Nick Harper - but the landscape is changing on another level...

Villa fans now even less confident in Lambert than they were at the start of the season
By Nick Harper last updated
Premier League Nick Harper picks through the findings to see how Aston Villa fans' mood has changed over the season...
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