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'I've never paid to go to a football match...' You Ask The Questions: Pele
By Hugh Sleight last updated
The Big Interview In 2005, FourFourTwo readers had the chance to put their questions to one of the best footballer of all time. Here, Pele talks management, music – and who he tips to win the 2006 World Cup
Ranked! The 20 greatest Champions League goals of all time
By Ed McCambridge published
UEFA Champions League The best volleys, back heels and solo stunners ever scored in the Champions League and European Cup
Arsenal's almost-Invincibles: When Chelsea denied the Gunners history in '91
By Chas Newkey-Burden published
Arsene Wenger's 2003/04 unbeaten lot will forever be remembered as arguably the Premier League's finest-ever team, but Chas Newkey-Burden recalls another Gunners side that almost achieved the unthinkable...
When Manchester United won their first 10 games – and still gifted the title to Liverpool
By Jon Spurling published
Ron Atkinson's Manchester United set off like a train – but went badly off the rails as their bitter rivals steamed past them. Jon Spurling blows the dust off the history books
Paolo Rossi on Spain 82: "There were problems with the press... we had a siege mentality"
By FourFourTwo Staff last updated
Q & A The top scorer at Spain 82 had only just come back from a lengthy drugs ban...
How Liverpool's greatest team failed to rule the world in 1984
By Luke Ginnell published
Action Replay They face Flamengo tonight, as they did in 1981 – but three years later, Joe Fagan’s Reds took on Argentine club Independiente for the honour of becoming world club champions. In order to win it, they would have to overcome one of South America’s finest cup teams and a miserable English record in the competition
Was football really better in the '90s? I long for it, but my students prove every generation is different
By James Oddy published
Retro A Zinedine Zidane poster stirs nostalgia and memories of unpolished mavericks, but you can't take age and appreciation for granted
The last all-English Super Cup: remembering the country's most hated competition
By Richard Edwards published
Retro Rich Edwards reflects on the despised Football League Super Cup that aimed to compensate for English clubs' European exile
Close encounters with Ray Wilkins: how the Chelsea great schooled me in a radio studio
By James Brown published
FourFourTwo One year ago today, English football lost one of its all-time greats. FFT’s editor-in-chief James Brown recalls his memorable meetings with the man they called ‘Butch’
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