Latest articles by Richard Edwards
How to watch Carabao Cup live streams from anywhere in the world in 2024/25
HOW TO WATCH Your complete guide to watching Carabao Cup live streams as the competition reaches the quarter-final stage.
How to watch FA Cup live streams from anywhere in 2024/25
HOW TO WATCH Here's everything you need to know to watch FA Cup live streams when the second round of the 2024/25 competition kicks off on November 29.
How to watch Champions League live streams from anywhere in 2024/25
HOW TO WATCH Everything you need to know to watch Champions League live streams in the new-look competition, as Real Madrid look to retain their title.
How to watch Premier League live streams from anywhere in the world in 2024/25
HOW TO WATCH Everything you need to know to watch Premier League live streams in 2024/25 as Manchester City try to make it five in a row
How one Bolton Wanderers legend helped Sam Allardyce mix it with the Premier League's big boys
EXCLUSIVE Former Bolton midfielder Stelios Giannakopoulos is still regarded as a Wanderers cult hero some 16 years after his exit
'Alisson will be crucial to Liverpool's title chances' – David James exclusive
Former Liverpool goalkeeper David James tells FFT why the Brazilian is so important, and why it's no longer just about clean sheets
Arsenal and Barcelona star Sylvinho picks an XI of his best team-mates – but leaves out Thierry Henry
PERFECT XI Sylvinho played for Arsenal and Barcelona with Thierry Henry – but has left him on the bench in his Perfect XI of former colleagues
Perfect XI: Newcastle United hero Nolberto Solano tells FFT his incredible Bobby Robson trumpet prank – and picks his best-ever teammates
PERFECT XI Newcastle United cult hero Nolberto Solano trumpets the case for his greatest selection of ex-team-mates
Former Tottenham star Darren Bent picks a team of his best-ever teammates – and leaves Frank Lampard and John Terry OUT
PERFECT XI Tottenham, Aston Villa and Sunderland striker Darren Bent picks his Perfect XI – leaving Lamps and JT on the bench for Darren Ambrose…
What REALLY happened to Ali Dia? On the trail of the Premier League's worst player
Southampton What the hell happened to Dia, who earned infamy on this day in 1996? FourFourTwo hits the trail of football’s most unlikely cult hero
Belgium manager Robert Martinez interview: "The opportunity to manage De Bruyne and Hazard is a challenge you sacrifice anything for"
Roberto Martinez's Belgium came third at the World Cup, sit atop the FIFA world rankings and have a golden generation the likes of which the country has never seen. But can they make it count at Euro 2020?
"That match is still iconic in Sweden" - Stefan Schwarz on knocking England out of the Euros
Sunderland may have dashed Stefan Schwarz's dreams of going to space, but the Swede did play a crucial role on Earth at Euro 92
Jozef Venglos remembered: The trailblazer who baffled Aston Villa – and changed English football
Aston Villa Former Aston Villa and Celtic manager Jozef Venglos has died, aged 84. He became the top flight's first foreign gaffer in 1990, introducing ideas that are common today – but were revolutionary at the time
Henrik Larsson to Southend? Beware: 10 legends who suffered nightmares in lower-league dugouts
Top 10 Champions League winner Larsson is a surprise candidate for the Shrimpers job. Yet going down the leagues to make your name as a manager isn't easy...
The last all-English Super Cup: remembering the country's most hated competition
Retro Rich Edwards reflects on the despised Football League Super Cup that aimed to compensate for English clubs' European exile
Remembered! ClubCall: the pre-internet hub of transfers, rumours and rants
Action Replay Ah, it's that time of year again. But before the digital age, fans needed a landline and deep pockets to hear player and manager interviews, live commentary and transfer gossip – and occasionally got a foul-mouthed bonus
Leicester demonstrate advantages of unchanged XIs – but can the traditional elite afford to reject rotation?
Leicester City Claudio Ranieri has consigned his Tinkerman tag to history by defying all expectations this season, so, Richard Edwards asks, is this the beginning of a new era of settlement?
Remembered: When TV darlings Manchester United ruined the FA Cup
Manchester United United's cup ties are constantly televised – tonight's quarter-final replay against West Ham is their 52nd consecutive tussle on the box – yet, as Rich Edwards explains, it wasn't too long ago that they abandoned the competition altogether...
Football in the pits: when Manchester United & Co. were fuelled by Britain's mines
Retro Today's up-and-coming youngsters needn't worry about a more lucrative second income – but that wasn't always the case, writes Richard Edwards...
Is losing more fun? Chelsea, Manchester United and City fans tell us...
Chelsea Rich Edwards discovers that Blues fans are enjoying their trips to Stamford Bridge again, after years of predictable and dull winning...
"Clubs will wither and die. In 10 years it will be completely different" What lower-league chairmen think of new TV deal
Football League The Premier League's bumper £5.14 billion television contract could change the landscape of British football as we know it, as Richard Edwards discovers...
A dodgy armband, Super Ted and the 11-hour tie: tittersome tales from FA Cup First Round
FA Cup Ahead of this weekend's FA Cup First Round Proper, Richard Edwards recalls the daftest moments from the famous old tournament's grand opener...
Pearson's Leicester are a '90s throwback – but he couldn't be more different to O'Neill, say Foxes legends
Leicester City Richard Edwards chats to the Foxes' defensive rocks of the mid-to-late '90s about Leicester's current side, success under Martin O'Neill and more...
'He couldn't move as quickly as he can talk now': Van Gaal's former team-mates speak
Louis van Gaal The Manchester United boss isn't afraid of making enemies in his quest for glory; heck, he's been ruffling feathers since his breakthrough days at Sparta Rotterdam, as Richard Edwards discovers...
