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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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THE BEAUTIFUL GAME

RAY PARLOUR • “Marc Overmars gave me my ‘Romford Pele’ nickname. I said, ‘You don’t know where Romford is, do you?’ He said, ‘No’.”

THE ULTIMATE QUIZ • Test your football knowledge with our questions concerning Germans, jam tarts and the legendary Denis Law

JULES BREACH • The TNT Sports presenter believes there are plenty of reasons for Chelsea fans to be cheerful

CHESNEY HAWKES • The One and Only hitmaker recalls playing to West Ham fans in Prague and scoring past Wojciech Szczesny

TRUE BALLERS • Too late, Pique: JT, Figo and Lineker have gazumped the ex-Barcelona star in the race to launch a new UK league, due to kick off next month…

GAMES THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

HAVE YOU LIKED THE NEW CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FORMAT?

THE SLOT MACHINE • Via the shock exit of Jurgen Klopp, key figures tell the inside story of how a group of rising stars and future kings were brought to Liverpool – and how their new Dutch boss led them to the top of the Premier League

SUCCESSION • Bob Paisley delivered glory when he followed Bill Shankly as Liverpool boss. At other clubs, though, following a legendary gaffer has had mixed results…

Diego Junior The son of God • Growing up as the initially unrecognised offspring of Diego Maradona wasn’t easy, but after winning his dad’s heart and enjoying success in beach soccer, the Neapolitan explains why he’s now found peace

LIFE BEGINS AT 40 • Now in his fifth decade, Cristiano Ronaldo has no intention of retiring – not with a World Cup in his sights and while still scoring for club and country. But should that decision be taken out of his hands, and could less be more?

30 WONDERKIDS WHO FADED • FFT remembers the young stars who slipped by the wayside, via backflips, seal dribbles and a suffering goose

VIVA LA REVOLUCION • Horrified at the Glazer family’s impending takeover two decades ago, a group of Manchester United fans went to church. FC United was their divine inspiration, a phoenix club born at the heart of the community

SING WHEN YOU’RE WINNING • From El Tel to John Barnes, footballers once delivered a string of memorable tunes and even the odd No.1 – FFT salutes a lost tradition

THE ULTIMATE TOP 40 • FFT presents our rundown of the finest football songs ever – officially released tunes that were either written for football or sung by footballers

Complete TOSH • John Toshack’s remarkable career took him from Wales, Liverpool and Real Madrid to Azerbaijan, Morocco and Iran. After a brush with death in 2022, he tells his story to FFT

LENNIE LAWRENCE • Hartlepool’s septuagenarian gaffer on his dugout return, almost two decades after his previous managerial post…

STOCKPORT’S DRIVING FORCE • Ex-lorry driver Ben Hinchliffe has been key in County’s road to recent success

YORK CITY • Simon Craft and Ben Aspinall of Minstermen podcast Same Old City on beating Fergie and being saved by the Pope

NO WILDCARDS HERE! • Erling Haaland can’t help you now – Fantasy Non-League might be the greatest football game you’ve never heard of

SCOTLAND’S OTHER DERBY • It may lack the Old Firm’s toxicity, but Edinburgh’s head-to-head is no less hostile. FFT went to witness it first hand

Papiss Cissé • “I AM KNOWN ALL AROUND THE WORLD FOR MY GOAL AT CHELSEA – I STILL CAN’T EXPLAIN IT”

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