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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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WELCOME

PAUL LAMBERT • “I met Zinedine Zidane in Madrid and we had a laugh about when I marked him for Dortmund in the Champions League final”

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 assesses the stars who may make headlines at Euro 2024

THE ULTIMATE QUIZ • Test yourself with our Euros teasers, featuring winning managers, Italian survivors and penalty-converters…

MY FOOTBALL • The former Suede guitarist, singer and songwriter recalls Auba pulling up outside his house, meeting Sir Bobby Robson and having dinner with fearsome ref Pierluigi Collina…

MEANWHILE IN… • …Bucharest, Dinamo have denied that Edgar Ie went AWOL – replaced by his twin?!

THE DEBATE • Who should be England manager after the Euros?

VIVA RONALDO • Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal career was as good as over when he was dropped at the last World Cup – instead, CR7 goes to Euro 2024 as their main man once more, aged 39. Will this be the end, and can he make one last pitch to be considered the greatest?

JUDE AWAKENING • Three years ago, Jude Bellingham briefly became the European Championship’s youngest ever player – now, after a superb debut season at Real Madrid, he’s ready to make a greater impact

CAPITAINE LEADER LEGENDE • Kylian Mbappe wrote his name into history at successive World Cups. Now France’s captain and desperate to break his Euros goal drought, can he make it to the Berlin final and succeed where Zinedine Zidane failed 18 years ago?

KING OF ALBANIA • The former Arsenal defender was an unexpected appointment last year, but he guided the Balkan nation to Euro 2024 – and now he tells FFT that he wants to spring another surprise…

ON THEIR MIND • A Frenchman, an Englishman and a local genius walk into a Caucasus country to qualify for a first major tournament – is this a joke? Not for Georgia, who are dreaming big

WHY ENGLAND COULD TAKE THE HANDBRAKE OFF AT THE EUROS • Gareth Southgate has been labelled a cautious coach in recent major tournament near-misses – in Germany he might just be more adventurous, which brings risks but also potential reward

HOW DID I FEEL AFTER SCORING NINE GOALSIN FIVE GAMES AT EURO 84? TIRED! • Forty years ago, Michel Platini’s Euros-record tally propelled France to glory on home soil… and he wasn’t even a forward. No player has ever had a finer European Championship – now, in his own words, he recalls it to FFT

“TERRY VENABLES PUT HIS FAITH IN ME AT EURO 96 – I COULDN’T LET HIM DOWN” • Only Cristiano Ronaldo and Michel Platini have more goals at the Euros than Alan Shearer’s seven – the forward hit five on home soil to secure the Golden Boot in 1996, and tells FFT why he found form at the perfect moment

30 GREATEST PUNDITS EVER • FFT rates the finest opinion-offerers in the history of UK television, via Del Boy, Space Jam and Donald Trump…

NINE REASONS TO BE EXCITED FOR COPA AMERICA • Family feuds, Bielsa’s return and an Icelandic dentist – it’s all been going on ahead of South America’s biggest tournament hosted by, er, the USA. Oh, and Messi’s going to be there as well…

LAWRENCE SHANKLAND • The Scottish Premiership top scorer for 2023-24 talks false career starts and Euro 2024 ambitions

FOOTBALL MANAGER: REALITY MODE • Nathan...