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.

FourFourTwo UK

WELCOME

ROBBIE SAVAGE

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

GAMES THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

JULES BREACH • The presenter analyses the second half of the Premier League season

THE ULTIMATE QUIZ • Start 2024 with a bang by acing our puzzlers on frequent flowers, Real Madrid royalty and European talismen

THE DEBATE • Is Pep Guardiola’s football actually enjoyable to watch?

MY FOOTBALL • The frontman of Northern Irish band Ash on invitations from Martin O’Neill, skippering David Healy’s hockey side and New York’s best Gunners hangout

MEANWHILE IN… • …Turkmenistan, the domestic league has taken a strange turn – via a former dictator

EURO 2024: GERMANY’S HORROR SUMMER? • FourFourTwo’s Ed McCambridge gives his bold predictions for the year ahead

FOOTBALL, BLOODY HELL • Sir Alex Ferguson almost emigrated to Canada aged 21 – instead, he became Britain’s greatest football manager. Twenty-five years since his finest hour, Martin Edwards and others tell FFT the inside story of a legendary career

WHAT SIR ALEX DID FOR ME BY PARK JI-SUNG • The South Korean tells Chris Evans about his seven years playing for Ferguson

FERGIE’S HONOURS LIST

SO FAR, AND YET SO FAR • Since Fergie left, United have been at least 12 points off the pace

DUEL IN THE SNOW • City rivals St Pauli and Hamburg are going head-to-head for promotion to Germany’s top tier this term – FFT hot-footed it to the Millerntor to watch the two teams face off

ALL HAIL THE KING OF KINGS • It’s 20 years since Henrik Larsson brought an end to seven glorious seasons at Celtic, but he remains a legend at Parkhead – and at Barcelona, too. He tells FourFourTwo why his time at both clubs still means so much to him

PALESTINE: THE TEAM FROM A WAR ZONE • This month’s Asian Cup features a side rocked by conflict, facing travel issues just to leave their own territory and desperate to represent their people. Key figures tell FFT why it’s not stopped them dreaming of success

THE ROONEY BLUES • Despite his playing heroics, Wayne Rooney was an unpopular choice when he was appointed Birmingham boss in October – hot on the heels of taxing spells at Derby County and DC United, life as a manager hasn’t been easy

“IT FELT LIKE MY BACK WAS ON FIRE, AND THERE WAS BLOOD EVERYWHERE. I’D BEEN SHOT” • Back in 1991, Lucas Radebe lay wounded in his car, and only his brother’s help saved his career. In his own words, the Leeds icon tells FFT how he escaped death’s door to conquer Yorkshire, captain post-apartheid South Africa and become Nelson Mandela’s hero

30 WEIRDEST TRANSFER MOMENTS • FFT remembers some of the strangest incidents, featuring riots, Lego, Twitter rants and would-be astronauts…

EL TEL & EURO 96: WHEN ENGLAND WERE AHEAD OF THE CURVE • FFT’s analytical ace pays tribute to our first cover star in 1994, the late, great Terry Venables, by explaining how the England gaffer’s ingenious methods made for a summer to remember

HOW SEAN DYCHE HAS MADE EVERTON MORE STRUCTURED • The Toffees no longer look like recent vintages that circled the Premier League drain, despite getting hit with a 10-point deduction. FFT outlines the evolution…

TRENT HAS TRANSFORMED LIVERPOOL… AND COULD TRANSFORM ENGLAND TOO • The Anfield star’s stats may be down but don’t be deceived,...