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August 2019

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August 30
- Quiz! How many of the 87 goalscorers from Arsenal vs Tottenham matches in the Premier League era can you name?
- FourFourTwo Podcast, Episode #13: Dead and Bury
- Neymar and the Toiss: meet the controlling circle of friends that influence his every move
- 50 things EVERYBODY hates about modern football
- Ranked! European competition's most successful teams EVER
- Henry Norris: The man who moved Arsenal to Highbury – and became Tottenham's first true enemy
- Why I hate VAR (and always will)
- Why Celtic’s European consistency deserves much more credit
- Why the understated Joel Matip serves as an inspiration to his Liverpool team-mates
- Arseblog: 4 things we’ve already learned about Arsenal this season
August 29
- What's wrong with Tottenham? Why fans are frustrated – and it's nothing new
- 6 good reasons why this could be the highest-scoring season in Premier League history
- Quiz! Can you name the 50 clubs with the most Champions League appearances since 2000?
- How Shkodran Mustafi became the awkward problem Arsenal fans couldn't take anymore
- Why the English midfield stereotype is dead – as Jordan Henderson proves
August 28
- 5 players who could receive their first England caps against Bulgaria or Kosovo
- Revealed! The best- and worst-case European group draws for every British club this week
- 9 players you didn’t know had scored Premier League hat-tricks
- What Unai Emery can learn from Mauricio Pochettino’s second season at Tottenham
- How realistic is a salary cap for clubs in the Football League? We asked an expert…
- Quiz! Can you name all 55 players to score in the Premier League so far in 2019/20?
- What English football can learn from the disasters of Bolton and Bury – so they can't happen again
August 27
- 11 Premier League players who scored once – but made it an absolute corker
- We need to talk about Harry Maguire's terrible record against Crystal Palace...
- Quiz! Can you name newly promoted Premier League teams' top goalscorers over the past decade?
- How did Bolton Wanderers get here? Featuring Pink Floyd, Laurence Bassini and an angry magician
- Andy Mitten column: Echoes of 1989 make for depressing reminder of where Manchester United are right now
August 23
- Quiz! Can you name the line-ups from the Arsenal vs Liverpool 2001 FA Cup Final?
- Bury FC's plight explained: what you need to know about the club's fight for survival
- When Ossie's dream began – how Ardiles, Villa and England's first foreigners changed football forever
- How Unai Emery is trying to learn from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's ill-fated career at Arsenal
- The 15 best Arsenal vs Liverpool games: Arshavin, King Kenny & goal gluts
August 22
- Premier League players who could leave before the end of the European transfer window
- How Rangers could use their major advantage over Celtic to FINALLY trigger a proper title race in Scotland
- We really need to talk about Everton's defence – because nobody seems to be noticing...
- Quiz! Can you name the current Premier League players who’ve made 25+ Champions League appearances?
- Why British fans may be unable to watch Barcelona vs Real Madrid this season – despite the ITV deal
- Why ‘Levynomics’ might have finally stopped working for Tottenham Hotspur
- Ranked! Every Premier League club by squad value – how much is your side worth?
- On this day, 2004: Zlatan Ibrahimovic's glorious solo goal for Ajax vs NAC Breda
August 21
- Why the winds of change aren't in Jonathan Woodgate's favour at Middlesbrough – yet
- FIFA 20 news: what we know so far about release date, demo, Volta and more
- Why Arsenal fans are already in love with Dani Ceballos
- Video: Ian Holloway bizarrely blames the EU for football's new handball rule
- Quiz! Can you name the players who've scored 10+ penalties in the Premier League?
- Why Premier League fans are wrongly losing their minds about VAR – and 5 more things we've learned about new rule changes
August 20
- What Frank Lampard must learn to make his tactics a success at Chelsea – and it's not about being free
- Andy Mitten column: Reflections on the bright start nobody expected at Manchester United
- Quiz! Can you name every team-mate Andy Carroll played with at Liverpool?
- James Brown’s Leeds United column: Goals, drizzle, hopes, moaning and noise – the season is well underway
- 20 players who arrived in the Premier League far too late
- Quiz! Can you name the 33 Premier League goalkeepers who’ve saved three or more penalties?
- EVERY Premier League side's most underrated player
August 19
- 5 big questions to be answered in the Bundesliga this season
- Quiz! Can you name all 34 Nordic players to have scored 10+ Premier League goals?
- 11 Premier League players who could leave before the end of the European transfer window
- When lowly Premier League clubs almost signed world-beaters
- 9 players who came to the Premier League too late in their careers
- Quiz! How many of the 78 players aged 23 or under who've featured in the Premier League this season can you name?
August 16
- FourFourTwo Podcast, Episode #12: Chernobyl – the lost football club
- Adrian, the fan and 10 of football's weirdest injuries
- Why Pro Evolution Soccer 4 is still the greatest football game of all time
- Under-23 stars we're most excited about in the Premier League this season
- How Pep Guardiola has transformed Riyad Mahrez from £60m substitute into the kind of winger he demands
- Quiz! How many of the 201 players to feature in the Premier League for Arsenal can you name?
- Ranked! The 7 most entertaining fixtures in the Premier League – and when they’re being played in 2019/20
August 15
- Revealed! How much every Premier League club is earning from their shirt sponsorship in 2019/20
- Andy Mitten column: How it works inside Manchester United's post-match mixed zone
- The final week of Bury FC? How my club came to the brink of extinction
- Was football really better in the '90s? I long for it, but my students prove every generation is different
- Quiz! Can you name Liverpool's line-ups from each UEFA Super Cup victory since 2001?
- Football tactics and formations explained: the most common systems – and how to beat them
August 14
- When will we find out how to watch La Liga on UK television this season? Explaining a sorry situation...
- 10 superb stand-ins who came in and shone unexpectedly
- Why Premier League clubs may have actually spent more intelligently than ever before in summer 2019
- Quiz! Can you name all 24 clubs to have won the UEFA Super Cup?
- The last all-English Super Cup: remembering the country's most hated competition
August 13
- 7 players who were persistently linked with Premier League moves... but never came
- Liverpool vs Britain: the Reds' cracking European clashes
- Quiz! Can you name Wesley Sneijder's 25 most frequent Netherlands team-mates?
- Injuries, uncertainty and broken families: why these 5 wonderkids never lived up to expectations
August 12
- 6 successful managerial stints that started with defeats
- The real 'anti-Guardiola'? Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is reaping the rewards of Manchester United's counter-attack
- How Johan Cruyff’s legacy could form the model for the new top-heavy Arsenal
- Jurgen Klopp decided to take a massive gamble in the transfer window – here's why
- Quiz! Can you name the last 50 players to score a Premier League hat-trick?
August 9
- The 8 most momentous opening-day Premier League matches
- New Premier League kits 2019/20: EVERY released home and away shirt
- How Arsenal’s culture of change left Alex Iwobi underappreciated – and unnecessary
- The 14 biggest opening-day shocks in Premier League history
- Quiz! Can you name the first goalscorer for every Premier League club in 2018/19?
- Ranked! Every Premier League manager by their job security in 2019/20
- 15 big transfers that fell through at the last minute
- Predicted! FourFourTwo's 2019/20 Premier League table
- How Mason Mount could make an impact at Chelsea this season – and prove their youth loan strategy right
- Ranked! Our 25 favourite Premier League signings this summer
- Every major Premier League transfer completed this summer
August 8
- Predicted! FourFourTwo’s 2019/20 Premier League table
- Win! A STATSports FIFA-approved GPS Performance Tracker, base layer and heart monitor
- Sheffield United’s "Route One" style? Danny Mills, and lazy pundits preventing viewers understanding football better
- FIFA 20 Volta news: street football swagger and cracking customisation make for exciting addition to series
- How European football ended up full of stranded superstars – and absolutely everybody loses
- Why Aston Villa will be the Premier League's great entertainers this season – one way or another
August 7
- Why I’m (finally) excited to be an Everton fan this summer
- 15 things we think will happen in the 2019/20 Premier League
- David Preece: What I learned from working first hand with Ravel Morrison at Ostersund
- Ranked! Every Premier League manager by their job security in 2019/20
- Quiz! Can you name the 55 highest-scoring South American players in Premier League history?
- Arseblog: 5 things I think will happen to Arsenal in 2019/20
August 6
- STATSports Athlete Series competition – terms and conditions
- BT Sport on Sky offer: how to save up to £60 a year with money off every month
- Ranked! The 9 best signings in the Premier League this summer
- Andy Mitten column: Manchester United > England? The uneasy relationship between club and country
- Sir Geoff Hurst: "When West Ham signed Haller, I asked – 'Is he the guy from 1966?'"
- Quiz! Can you name the 51 highest-scoring Englishmen in Premier League history?
- Why Dele Alli could take on a strange new role at Tottenham this season
August 5
- 11 players under 23 who are ready to light up the Premier League in 2019/20
- Quiz! Can you name the 52 most expensive centre-back transfers of all time?
- James Brown’s Leeds United column: 7 things we learned from the opening day win at Bristol City
- Quiz! Can you name the 22 Italians with 4+ Premier League goals?
- What Gareth Bale can learn from David Beckham’s time out in the cold at Real Madrid
- 5 players Liverpool should offload before the transfer window closes
- 8 big transfers that fell through at the last minute
August 3
- Year Zero: the season that made Thierry Henry at Arsenal (1999/2000)
August 2
- James Brown's Leeds United column: Does anyone know what lies ahead?
- 10 overpriced transfers that absolutely worked out
- Predicted! FourFourTwo’s 2019/20 Championship table
- 20 footballers who left their clubs on terrible terms
- The birth of ‘Le Sulk’: Nicolas Anelka’s Arsenal legacy, 20 years on from his move to Real Madrid
- Ranked! The best managers who've failed to win the Premier League
- FourFourTwo's predicted 2019/20 Championship table
August 1
- The phone call that changed Liverpool: "I convinced people who weren't interested in football to buy the club"
- Everything Arsenal fans need to know about record signing Nicolas Pepe
- 9 really weird things you might have missed in football this summer
- 11 forgotten Premier League players who could play much bigger roles in 2019/20
- Quiz! Can you name the 25 most expensive Premier League goalkeepers ever?
- Why I love... Sami Hyypia and Stephane Henchoz
- The craziest season in English football: when the champions got relegated and ‘Lucky Arsenal’ annoyed the nation
- Laurent Koscielny and 6 other club captains who cocked up a pre-season