Alex Reid
Alex Reid is a freelance journalist and the former digital features editor at FourFourTwo. He has also written for the Guardian, talkSPORT, Boxing News and Sport magazine. Like most Londoners, he is a lifelong supporter of Aberdeen FC. He is deceptively bad in the air for a big man. He has never been a cage fighter.
Latest articles by Alex Reid
Ranked! The 11 best managers never to win the Champions League
By Alex Reid published
UEFA Champions League From Italian maestros to French pioneers, these are the great gaffers who've never managed to add The Big One to their CVs. Yet...
Quiz! Can you name the 40 highest French goalscorers in Premier League history?
By Alex Reid published
Quiz Eric Cantona may have been one of the first from Le France – but plenty have followed him across the channel since…
Robert Lewandowski robbed? Here are the 12 best players never to win the Ballon d’Or
By Alex Reid published
Ballon d'Or Robert Lewandowski scored 48 goals in a season and still didn't win the Ballon d'Or - don't worry Bobby, you're in good company...
Who would play every Premier League manager if they were cast in a Hollywood film?
By Alex Reid published
Premier League Look, it's the international break OK? Let’s leave our tactics board at the door and imagine a perfect actor to play every Premier League boss
Ranked! The best managers who've failed to win the Premier League
By Alex Reid published
Premier League From Sir Bobby to King Kev, each of these Premier League bosses has had great spells – but ultimately none have won the league title. Yet...
Sead Kolasinac and 6 other footballers who acted as real-life superheroes
By Alex Reid published
Lists Rescuing kids from stricken boats, chasing down thieves and punching gunmen – these players proved their off-pitch heroism
6 club greats who returned as manager... then failed spectacularly
By Alex Reid published
Premier League Frank Lampard beware: a successful playing career doesn’t always mean you can master it in charge at your old club, as these men painfully discovered
Quiz! Can you name all 40 teams to appear in a European Cup or Champions League final?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Every club to have taken part in the grand final of European club football’s biggest game, hailing from 13 different domestic leagues. Time to name the lot…
Ranked! Every Premier League manager by how long they'd survive in Game of Thrones
By Alex Reid published
Funny We couldn’t let the final season begin without assessing the time each Prem boss would last in this vicious world, could we? Apparently not
Ranked! The 50 worst players in Premier League history
By Alex Reid published
Lists Put your hands over your eyes - just as many fans did as they watched this hapless bunch. It's the Premier League's worst players of all time
Quiz! Can you name the 50 most expensive footballers of all time based on accumulated transfer fees?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz From the one-move record-breakers to the multiple big-club movers, more money has been spent on these 50 players than any others
Quiz! Can you name the 50 top tacklers currently playing in the Premier League?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz These Prem players have won more tackles than any others – including the man closing in on 1,000 successful challenges
Quiz! Can you name the 33 'modern' players to reach 100 goals for a current Premier League club?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz These players have all hit a ton of goals across all competitions for one club. How many can you name?
Quiz! Can you name this season’s leading Premier League scorers from 48 different countries?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz It's every nationality represented on Premier League scoresheets this season after 18 games. Can you name each country’s most prolific player?
Quiz! Can you name the 28 Premier League players who have reached 50 goals AND assists?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz This season, a Manchester United midfielder became the 28th player to grab a half-century of goals and of assists in the Premier League era. How many do you know?
Every current Premier League club’s greatest EVER win in the competition
By Alex Reid published
Premier League The modern victories that have meant the most to the top flight’s current 20 teams, from incredible fightbacks to title-deciding triumphs
Quiz! Can you name the top 50 active Premier League players with the most wins?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz These current Premier League stars have racked up more victories in England’s top division than their colleagues. Bravo!
Quiz! Can you name all 42 English players to score in the Premier League this season?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Before the Three Lions take on Croatia on Sunday, this is every English player who’s been in goalscoring form for their clubs in 2018/19
EVERY Premier League club’s best foreign player... ever!
By Alex Reid published
Premier League From rapping Americans to trumpet-playing Peruvians, we rate the greatest overseas imports to pull on a shirt for the 20 current Premier League sides
Ranked! Every Premier League club by how ‘big’ they are
By Alex Reid published
Premier League It’s time to finally sort the big kahunas from the small fries, as we apply science to separate the current Premier League sides by size
Quiz! Can you name the top Champions League appearance-makers from these 50 countries?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz From the Spanish legend with 168 Champions League games to the American with 23, these are the all-time leaders for their nations within the Champions League
Quiz! Can you name the top-scoring Fantasy Premier League players of 2017/18?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz After six games, these are the players who have started the season like a train, earning their proud FPL gaffers incredible points totals – including the current leader on 52 points
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