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.

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STEPH HOUGHTON • “Princess Anne called me Fara when I got my MBE – I didn’t dare correct her! What can you say? You just say, ‘Yes, ma’am’”

THE ULTIMATE QUIZ • Put your football knowledge to the test with our questions concerning legends, loan spells and lighthouses

JULES BREACH • The TNT Sports reporter on why a German could be the key to England bringing football home

PAUL SMITH • Maxïmo Park’s frontman on a rocket from Rochemback, meeting Gareth Southgate at Colin Cooper’s big bash and being dropped for a doppelgänger

GAMES THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT THE EXPANDED CLUB WORLD CUP?

Buenos Diaz • Luis Diaz’s journey has taken him from humble origins in Colombia to stardom at Liverpool. A year since his father’s kidnapping, he’s been reinvigorated under new manager Arne Slot

THE (NEW) SAINTS GO MARCHING ON • Wrexham dominate most of the Welsh football headlines these days, but it’s TNS who’ve been making history in the Conference League – FFT headed to Shrewsbury to see them record a shock ‘home’ win over Astana

BEST MANAGERS IN THE WORLD • FFT rates the greatest gaffers roaming the planet right now, from legendary bosses to up-and-coming talents

Basque TO THE FUTURE • Andoni Iraola was a left-field choice to become Bournemouth manager in June 2023. The noir fiction fan and Marcelo Bielsa disciple tells FFT why falling for Dorset helped to defy a slow start and break records on the south coast

SUMMIT SPECIAL • Bryan Robson can still move mountains – FFT teamed up with the Manchester United marvel to scale Africa’s highest peak

A MATCH WITH THE MONKS • THE GREATEST COMPETITION PRIZE EVER

Why I love Scottish football • The legendary goal-getter recounts his strangest tales, featuring Graeme Souness punch-ups, broken sofas, Duncan Ferguson’s errant pigeon and, of course, Gazza…

GREEN SHOOTS • Less than two years ago, Saint-Etienne were at real risk of relegation to the semi-professional third tier – unthinkable for a club who were the finest in France throughout the 1960s and ’70s. Now Les Verts are back in the big time following last term’s Ligue 2 play-off success. Oh, and they’re also billionaires…

Why Thomas Tuchel is the perfect fit for the England job • The new gaffer might not have been born and bred in Barnsley, but he’s long proved himself to be particularly astute in high-profile knockout competitions

How Liverpool have changed under new manager Arne Slot • The Reds have had to adapt to life without their legendary boss Jurgen Klopp, but their new manager’s tactical tweaks showed highly promising early signs

Why Cole Palmer is an absolute genius on a football pitch • Chelsea’s attacking star attracts plenty of mirth for his interviews, but he often displays unrivalled intelligence in the heat of Premier League action

REGIS LE BRIS • Sunderland’s unheralded summer coaching arrival is now the toast of Wearside, as the French workaholic has taken the Championship’s youngest squad to the summit

KETTERING’S BREWING • Three former Premier League players are plying their trade at seventh-tier Kettering, but their owner assures us sustainability over celebrity is the aim

GILLINGHAM • Lifelong Gill and ME7 podcast host Owen Stanley recalls wonder volleys, Christmas miracles and Celebrity Big Brother

…AND IN THE BLUE...