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
Quiz! Can you name the top 50 Premier League goalscorers who’ve NEVER played a World Cup game?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz The all-time Premier League scorers who’ve never played an active part in a World Cup, from the Englishman with 187 goals to the Peruvian with 49
Quiz! Can you name the most expensive players from these 50 countries?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz This January, the record transfer fee for an American player was smashed – but how well do you know the priciest footballers from around the world?
San Diego's NASL team name is NOT an 'Anchorman' reference - unless it is
By Alex Reid published
In Other News... Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it...
Quiz! Can you name the top 40 players for combined goals and assists in this Championship season so far?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Every player with a total of 13 goals + assists in 2017/18. Do you know the most productive players in the Championship?
Quiz! Can you name the 50 highest-appearing FORMER Premier League players at the 2018 World Cup?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz They aren’t in the Premier League any more, but they are in Russia this summer – it’s the ex-top flight stars who feature in World Cup squads
FourFourTwo's 50 Best Football Managers in the World 2017
By Alex Reid last updated
FFT 50 Managers Who are the 50 greatest bosses in football right now? Follow the FourFourTwo countdown this week to the No.1 gaffer in the game
Quiz! Can you name the top World Cup goalscorers for these 30 major countries?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz The highest ever scorer for these national teams in World Cup finals, from the German with 16 goals to the Irish star with three
Quiz! Can you name all 21 players to have scored in the last two decades of England vs Germany games?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Twenty years of goals, shock hammerings, toilet-based resignations and more. Can you recall the men who supplied the drama?
FourFourTwo’s 50 Best Football Managers in the World 2017: 50-46
By Alex Reid last updated
FFT 50 Managers A charismatic, bespectacled German and the Maradona of the Carpathians star in the first batch of our week-long countdown of the best bosses in the game today
World Cup, day 13: the things you might have missed
By Alex Reid last updated
FIFA World Cup Marcos Rojo's late heroics steal victory – and a place in the last 16 – for Argentina, who set up a knockout meeting with France
Quiz! Can you name Tottenham’s 50 highest Premier League appearance-makers after 1,000 games?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz The players who’ve donned the Lilywhite shirt most often since 1992, including the top Hotspur of the Premier League era on 299 matches
Peter Crouch: My Spurs winner at Man City is the best feeling I’ve had in football
By Alex Reid published
Peter Crouch The striker has told FourFourTwo of the one moment that sticks head and shoulders above the rest – a bit like the man himself
Ranked! Every World Cup 2018 team based on their performances after two games
By Alex Reid last updated
FIFA World Cup We’ve now seen every team at Russia 2018 twice – so who’s top of the class, who’s rock bottom, and where do England sit after that win over Panama?
FourFourTwo with Billy Beane: Can the Moneyball analytics approach work in football?
By Alex Reid published
FourFourTwo Films The man who pioneered data-driven success in baseball talks about how analytics is changing football – and why, love them or hate them, the numbers aren’t going away
5 reasons why footballers fail at BBC Sports Personality of the Year
By Alex Reid published
Premier League Football is our national game, yet in 62 years of SPOTY, just five footballers have won the main award. So why does the British public tend to ignore the sport it loves most?
Quiz! Can you name all 79 countries to have appeared at a World Cup finals?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz After a North American nation became the latest debutants, it’s time to name every World Cup participant – from 1930 onwards
Quiz! Can you name the 37 best players at the 2018 World Cup based on goals + assists?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Each of these players has been directly involved in at least two goals in the group stage. Name them...
Gareth Southgate opens England door to Championship players, Sunday League players, fictional players, horses
By Alex Reid published
Back of the Net The England talent pool is shallower than the manager would like, Back of the Net reveals
FourFourTwo’s 50 Best Football Managers in the World 2017: 40-36
By Alex Reid last updated
FFT 50 Managers A pair of Northern Irishmen creating history, plus the Turkmenian giant-killer who masterminded the ‘Russian Leicester’
Quiz! How many of Tottenham’s 46 goalscorers from the last 20 years of European football can you name?
By Alex Reid last updated
Football quiz Spurs have gone from Premier League mid-tablers to European regulars, but who’s netted their Champions League and Europa League goals?
Quiz! Can you name the starting line-ups from Brazil 1-7 Germany at the 2014 World Cup?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz As the two nations face off for the first time since that astonishing result, can you name the players involved when hosts Brazil went into a semi-final meltdown four years ago?
Quiz! Can you name these 30 players who’ve scored 50+ international goals?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz One player reached the 50-goal barrier in the 2018 World Cup; can you name him and 29 others who’ve played since 2000 and scored a half-century of international goals?
Quiz! How many English club stadiums can you name by these glorious illustrations?
By Alex Reid last updated
Football quiz Let’s test your knowledge of England’s football grounds with these bold renderings
Quiz! Can you name Arsenal’s 50 highest Premier League appearance-makers after 1,000 games?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz The Gunners have hit three figures for matches since the 1992/93 season, but can you name their most frequent performers – including the all-time leader on 333?
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