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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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BASTIAN SCHWEINSTEIGER • “I had a good record against Lionel Messi. When he saw me in Qatar, I think he was happy I wasn’t on the pitch any more!”

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 TNT Sports reporter picks out her alternative manager of the season

THE ULTIMATE QUIZ • Take aim at our latest batch of brainteasers about Berkshire outfits, Basque bosses and Ballon d’Or successes

MY FOOTBALL • The two-weight world champion on nabbing Keegan’s medal and asking Wayne Rooney to carry his boxing belts

MEANWHILE IN… • …Belgium, the national team’s new No.10 is about to be punched by Captain Haddock

THE DEBATE • Should the FA Cup semi-finals be played at Wembley Stadium?

ALL HAIL THE INVINCIBLES • Arsenal haven’t won the Premier League in the 20 years since they went unbeaten throughout the 2003-04 campaign – FFT speaks to several of that immortal squad, as they relive a season that went down in history…

ARSENAL’S INVINCIBLES OFFERED US A GLIMPSE INTO FOOTBALL’S FUTURE • Arsene Wenger’s side might have used the same formation as their contemporaries, but the playing style they deployed within that system was a considerable way ahead of its time

SHORE THINGS • Como were in Italy’s fourth tier as recently as 2019, but with help from Cesc Fabregas they have surged to the verge of Serie A this term – FFT headed to the picturesque location to witness a key promotion clash

THE TOP 50 FOOTBALL LEAGUE PLAYERS • Yes, it’s that time of year once again: with a little help from our readers, FFT reveals the 50 finest players outside the Premier League this season

I WANT TO SET RECORDS THAT LAST FOR 100 YEARS IT’S ALL A BIT SURREAL • Aged just 24, Ada Hegerberg became the first winner of the Ballon d’Or Feminin and the Women’s Champions League’s leading scorer. A year later, her career lay in tatters. The Norwegian pioneer tells FFT how injury focused her mind to extend her legacy…

KLOPP’S GREATEST LIVERPOOL GAMES • The German’s nine-year reign has produced memorable matches aplenty – Ian Rush, Jamie Carragher, the Liverpool Echo and This Is Anfield pick eight for the history books

MIKE WILLIAMSON • The former Newcastle defender on MK Dons ambitions, coming to Gateshead’s rescue and a 4-4 draw with Arsenal

ONE HULL OF AN OWNER • Acun Ilicali is known as Turkey’s Simon Cowell, and he has certainly brought the X-Factor to Hull City. He tells FFT why he bought them in 2022 – and what’s next

BEST&WORST CHESTERFIELD • Lifelong Spireite Rob Cole on Sean Dyche penalties, toppling Manchester City and not forgiving Bobby Zamora

LOVE ME FOR A SEASON • After pop veterans Boyzone linked up with non-league Chorley, FFT mulls football’s great musical collaborations

RUSHDEN & DIAMONDS THE CLUB THAT FOOTBALL FORGOT • Based in the tiny town of Irthlingborough, the minnows made it to England’s third tier – then it all went wrong

FOREST GREEN: HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF? • Nailsworth usurped Irthlingborough as the smallest ever town with an EFL club, but Rovers have spiralled since their promotion to League One

DAVE BASSETT • “WHAT THE CRAZY GANG ACHIEVED WAS INCREDIBLE – THESE DAYS WE’D GET OUR OWN NETFLIX SHOW”

ALEXANDRE PATO • “AT MILAN, I...