FourFourTwo UK

Every month, our team deliver the biggest names, the finest features and the most respected columnists in football. FourFourTwo is the only magazine that truly reflects football in all its extremes. Spectacular, dramatic, hilarious, opinionated, authoritative, intelligent, quirky - from the grass roots up, if it's in the game, it's in FourFourTwo.

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FABIO CANNAVARO • “I was very scared that I’d lose to France on penalties at a World Cup for a second time. Take a penalty? I’m not crazy! I know my limits…”

THE MIXER THE BEST OF FOOTBALL • KIT • FASHION • ART DESIGN • TECH

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UPFRONT • Playing off the last defender, it’s the big-manlittle-man partnership of football and funnies…

GAMES THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

THE ULTIMATE QUIZ • Have a go at our pre-season teasers, featuring puzzlers on Canadian franchises, Spygate, caviar and sausages

JULES BREACH OPINION • The TV presenter expects an intense battle for the Champions League spots

MY FOOTBALL • The Olympic hockey gold medallist owns part of the Anfield bench – and adores Steve McManaman

LET ME BEAT YOUR FANTASY • The 2023 Fantasy Premier League champion was from Azerbaijan – now he’s aiming to defeat everyone again

MEANWHILE IN… • …Sydney, the Women’s World Cup was welcomed in fitting fashion: by a topless man?

THE DEBATE • Which team will challenge Manchester City for the Premier League title in 2023-24?

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67 THINGS WE’RE LOOKING FORWARD TO IN 2023-24 • For the first time in five seasons, normality is back – no winter World Cup, no pandemic – but that doesn’t mean it will be boring. Can anyone stop Manchester City? Will Wrexham storm League Two? Are Charlton fixtures about to turn into a rave? There’s plenty to look out for in the year ahead…

WE ARE PREMIER LEAGUE • Luton’s Kenilworth Road home may not be anyone’s idea of luxury, but it will host Premier League football this season after the Hatters’ unexpected rise back to the top, via F1, Manager Idol and five years in non-league…

SNAKES AND LADDERS • After climbing out of non-league in 2014, Luton have gone from League Two to the Premier League in just six seasons. These clubs rocketed between the first and fourth tiers even more quickly – albeit not always in the right direction…

IN GOOD KOMPANY • After learning from Pep Guardiola as Man City skipper, Burnley’s beloved boss is now ready to mix it with his old gaffer in a top-flight dugout. FFT speaks to those who know him – even those who introduced him to his wife…

“IT WAS A CONSTANT BATTLE, TO STOP PEOPLE LAUGHING AT ME FOR HOW I LOOKED” • As a young footballer, Peter Crouch was the butt of all the jokes – but after a stellar career made him a popular media personality, they are laughing with him now. He tells FFT how he came through the tough times to become a cult hero

KICKING ON • Kick It Out is David to the Goliath of discrimination in football. For 30 years, the organisation has tirelessly...