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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WELCOME

THE BEAUTIFUL GAME

ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI • “Sir Alex Ferguson wanted me and I said yes – even though it was very tough to understand every word he was saying!”

AN EVENING TO REMEMBER • Jules Breach, Paul Merson and Ray Parlour rocked up as FFT threw a shindig to toast three decades of football coverage

SOME MARSEILLE • A former Champions League winner now plays in a bona fide Oasis tribute band – what’s the story?

GAMES THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

IS IT OK TO SUPPORT MORE THAN ONE CLUB?

THE ULTIMATE QUIZ • Put your football knowledge to the test with our puzzlers about Calciopoli, Colombians and big grass snakes

JULES BREACH • The TNT Sports reporter on why the FA Cup remains magic for clubs at all levels of the pyramid

BILL WYMAN • The original Rolling Stones bassist on pretending to have toothache to go and watch Crystal Palace, and taking Ian Wright around London’s clubs…

Sporting chance • Several managers have failed to return Manchester United to their perch since Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement. Ruben Amorim overcame potential bans and a Christmas row with Jesus to revive a listing Lisbon giant, but can lightning strike twice at Old Trafford? Those who know him best reveal all

Return of the target man • Chris Wood began 2024-25 in the goalscoring form of his life, hitting double figures before Christmas as Nottingham Forest gatecrashed the Premier League’s top four. He tells FFT how New Zealand toughened him up, and why he left Newcastle

WHEN BUENOS AIRES BECAME BRAZIL • Black-and-white-striped compatriots Botafogo and Atletico Mineiro descended on Argentina’s capital for the Copa Libertadores final – and FFT joined the 70,000 travelling fans to witness the madness

30 BEST MASCOTS IN THE WORLD • FFT rates the finest Wombles, jalapeno peppers and chainsaw-wielding maniacs that football has to offer

“PLANTING THAT FLAG WASN’T PLANNED, IT JUST HAPPENED. IT MADE ME A HERO” • Graeme Souness should have had his feet up in the mid-90s after undergoing heart surgery, but then Galatasaray made him an offer he simply couldn’t refuse. In his own words, he recalls controversy, fallouts, threats… but certainly no regrets

“SO TELL ME… WHO DID WIN THE RUMBELOWS CUP IN THE END?” • Returning to the White House this month, Donald Trump will be central to next year’s World Cup. His football/soccer links go back decades, via Saint & Greavsie, a possible Rangers takeover… and reports of a six-match stint as Wolves’ youth-team goalkeeper

ESCAPE TO VICTORY • More than three years have passed since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan sparked a resurgence of the Taliban. It forced the country’s women’s team to flee, but they’ve inspired many since setting up home at Australian club Melbourne Victory. This is their remarkable story…

Mo Salah should be slowing down – but he’s getting better • At the age of 32, Liverpool’s Egyptian King has been a renewed goal threat this season – thanks to some tactical tweaks by new Anfield gaffer Arne Slot

How Erling Haaland scored 100 goals in just 105 games • Sceptics doubted the Norwegian would fit into Manchester City’s style of play and find the net regularly – in fact, he reached a century in double-quick time

How Leicester City did the impossible during 2015-16 • Claudio Ranieri’s Foxes stunned England to win the Premier League, despite having near...