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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LUCY BRONZE • “I’m a right-back – when someone called me to say that I had won PFA Player of the Year, I thought, ‘You’ve called the wrong person!’”

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

THOMAS HITZLSPERGER GAMES THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

JULES BREACH • The presenter explains what a week looks like working for TNT Sports

THE ULTIMATE QUIZ • Test yourself with our teasers about Magpies in movies, Premier League Kenyans and viral penalty misses

MEANWHILE IN… • …Switzerland, an FC Zurich tifo received plaudits for creativity – spelling, not so much

THE DEBATE • Is Sports Personality of the Year still relevant in 2023?

MY FOOTBALL • The cruiserweight world champion on battling Artur Boruc in the ring and swapping his gloves for Aaron Ramsdale’s shirt…

MBAPPE? NO, THIS WAS DAN BURN’S YEAR • FourFourTwo’s Adam Clery hands out his alternative awards

UNSTOPPABLE • European bridesmaids Manchester City at last became the bride in June to secure the Treble, completing both their journey from the third tier and maybe even football itself

30 BEST BRITISH CLUB SIDES EVER! • From underdog stories to treble triumphs, FFT ranks the most remarkable teams to emerge from these shores

CHAOS AND CONTROL • The goals have flowed at both ends since Roberto De Zerbi became Brighton boss, but there’s method in the madness – using strategies first honed at the Italian Bishop’s Stortford, he’s taken the Seagulls to greater heights than ever before

MARY QUEEN OF STOPS • Mary Earps hasn’t enjoyed a smooth journey to the top, but she captured the hearts of a nation during the 2023 Women’s World Cup thanks to all manner of sensational saves and some particularly impressive swearing, too…

AFTER PROMOTION, OUR PLAYERS WERE GETTING STOPPED IN THE STREET WALKING THROUGH HOLLYWOOD – IT’S BEEN UNBELIEVABLE • With a little help from Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, Phil Parkinson ended Wrexham’s 15-year EFL exile this year. In his own words, he explains why he’ll never forget 2023…

GREAT SCOTT • Scotland’s remarkable Euro 2024 qualifying campaign owed plenty to the contribution of Scott McTominay. The Manchester United midfielder tells FFT how he turned into an unlikely goal machine

THE TEAM WHO OVERCAME AN EARTHQUAKE • Turkey’s biggest quake since 1939 took the life of former Newcastle star Christian Atsu in February. In his honour, his club, Hatayspor, have fought back in remarkable fashion

TO THE VICTOR BELONG THE SPOILS • Napoli won their first Scudetto for 33 years in 2023, thanks to the goals of their Nigerian star, Victor Osimhen. Little wonder he’s been linked with a host of Premier League clubs…

IT’S BEEN A THRILLER • During 16 years as Fulham owner, Mohamed Al Fayed transformed the club from lower-league also-rans into Europa League finalists. Months after his passing, FFT recalls an eccentric who gave Cottagers some incredible memories – and a bizarre statue of Michael Jackson…

THE BIRTH OF REPLICA: A STITCH IN TIME • Fifty years ago, a small Midlands firm went from manufacturing nuns’ knickers to selling the world’s first replica football kits, just in time for Christmas. Almost by accident, Admiral opened the floodgates to a multimillion-pound industry…

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