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

PAUL GASCOIGNE • “God, the feeling when I scored against Scotland at Euro 96 was magnificent. It was pure instinct – you just can’t teach kids that”

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

ROBERTO CARLOS • GAMES THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

JULES BREACH • The past 30 years have let fans dream, says FFT’s first female columnist…

THE ULTIMATE QUIZ • Test your knowledge of the past three decades of football with this selection of teasers, one for every year…

MY FOOTBALL • The Hard-Fi frontman on bumping into Ivan Toney at Legoland and the former Bee turned billionaire

MEANWHILE IN… • …Tunbridge Wells, subbuteo came home – only for the Italians to whisk it away again

THE DEBATE • Is football better now than it was in 1994?

Gareth ’Gangsta’ Southgate • Just 18 months before becoming England boss, the U21s gaffer hit out at crisps, cat patters and pencil boxes…

HAPPY 30TH ANNIVERSARY, FourFourTwo • Three decades ago when FFT launched, no one imagined it would lead to an all-nighter with Delia Smith, being abducted by an Israeli taxi driver and sending Bobby Robson bottles of HP Sauce through the post. We speak to every previous editor, to hear the full story of the ‘quite remarkable’ football magazine…

OVER THE TOP WITH BRIAN CLOUGH • The legendary former Derby and Nottingham Forest manager was a columnist for FourFourTwo from 2001 until his death in 2004 at the age of 69 – not all of his forecasts came true, though he was never short of an opinion…

EL TEL THE MAN WHO HELPED TO LAUNCH FourFourTwo • Terry Venables was the cover star for FFT’s launch issue in 1994 – a year after his death, former players pay tribute to one of the finest managers Britain has ever produced

BECKS TO THE FUTURE • OK, we didn’t exactly nail how David Beckham would look in 2020, so let’s go again with the current crop of stars

RESPECT • That’s what women’s football demands more than anything. Its status has grown exponentially during FourFourTwo’s lifetime, but finally the long and arduous battle for recognition is starting to pay dividends

FINDING DIEGO • A little over a year before his untimely death at the age of 60, Diego Maradona was managing Mexican second-tier side Dorados de Sinaloa – FourFourTwo went deep into drug cartel country to track him down

THEY SAID WHAT?! • FourFourTwo have interviewed pretty much everyone in football over the past 30 years, leading to a range of eye-catching quotes – including revelations about the time Diego Maradona tried to lure a legend to Napoli…

30 OF OUR BEST FRONT COVERS • FourFourTwo’s long-serving art director picks out his favourites, via fake refs, ponytails and a man holding an axe

HOW THE 4-4-2 BECAME BRITISH FOOTBALL’S MOST ICONIC FORMATION • A system of playing inspired the name for this very magazine – on these shores, for numerous reasons, it’s football heritage

JACK BUTLAND • Rangers’ in-form keeper tells FFT he has his sights set on a Three Lions recall

GULLS GALORE • FFT studied Torquay’s empty trophy cabinet 30 years ago – they’re still gongless but with renewed hope at last

BEST&WORST INVERNESS CALEDONIAN THISTLE • Sandy Sutherland from ICT pod The Wyness Shuffle relives the year from hell – but also Terry Butcher’s magic

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