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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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DAVID PLEAT • “Elton John sent me flowers after the newspaper allegations against me. A message with it said, ‘Don’t let the bastards grind you down’”

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

MARKUS BABBEL • GAMES THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

JULES BREACH • The presenter gives us the inside track on Brighton’s new boss Fabian Hurzeler

THE ULTIMATE QUIZ • Challenge yourself with our questions, on subjects as varied as Big Sam, hospitals and outfield players in goal

MY FOOTBALL • The comedian and Phoenix Nights star on why Eric Cantona tried to offer him a Jammie Dodger

MEANWHILE IN… • …Liverpool, the Saudi Jose Mourinho was thwarted in the Football Manager World Cup

THE DEBATE • Should the Saturday 3pm blackout be scrapped?

LOVE ALWAYS WINS • It was with those words Bukayo Saka signed off his message to fans after Euro 2020 penalty heartbreak resulted in despicable racist abuse. Arsenal’s widely adored winger has spent three years silencing such reactions – legends, fans and those who’ve worked with him tell FFT how

BLUE IS THE COLOUR, CHAOS IS THE GAME • Todd Boehly’s consortium took charge of Chelsea in the summer of 2022 – but what’s followed has been a dizzying revolving door of players and managers, leading to disappointing results and discontent in the stands. If only he’d been allowed to play 4-4-3…

THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT • While Chelsea’s men have endured two years of mayhem, the women’s side just keep on winning

IN WITH THE NEW • The Premier League’s leading lights bolstered their squads with new recruits before the window closed – including a gap-toothed sharp-shooter and a starlet whose move prompted protests at his old club

“IT WAS A WORLD RECORD TRANSFER, BUT I NEVER WANTED TO SIGN FOR MILAN. THEN CAME MY CRASH. I COULD HAVE DIED.” • Gianluigi Lentini became the world’s most expensive player when he arrived at San Siro for £13m in 1992 – in his own words, the ex-winger reflects on a reluctant transfer and the car accident that nearly claimed his life

30 BEST STADIUMS IN THE WORLD • FFT ranks the greatest arenas around the globe, based on factors including aesthetics, atmosphere and history

BEWARE THE DIRIEST TEAM EVER • Estudiantes beat Manchester United to become world champions after perfecting the dark arts – but a year later, and 55 years ago this month, the Argentine club’s most brutal fixture was the beginning of the end

FOOTBALL’S FIGHT AGAINST PROSTATE CANCER • After battling the disease himself, Mick Harford tells FFT how he has joined forces with Viv Anderson, Grant McCann and more for a fundraising drive this October

HOW MBAPPE WILL FIT INTO REAL MADRID’S WAY OF PLAYING • The Frenchman has joined an array of stars at the Bernabeu this season – that’s both a good thing, and a potential issue

NATHAN JONES • The Welshman on Luton, Saints, playing in Spain and his current aim to win promotion with Charlton

THE LOST CELTIC • Belfast Celtic were behemoths – until a violent pitch invasion led to their demise

BEST&WORST ST JOHNSTONE • Danny Williams of Dogger Saints Podcast discusses finger-lickin’ defenders and the spirit of Marco van Basten

FROM TOP TO BOTTOM • Non-league football is littered with former Premier League stars this term – and we’re talking very...