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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

CHRISTIAN VIERI • “I’d go to restaurants in Milan with Ronaldo, and people would stand up and applaud. I thought, ‘What the f**k – are we The Beatles?!’”

THE ULTIMATE QUIZ • Swot up on your knowledge of 2024-25 by nailing our questions about Spurs, Salah and the Saudi Pro League

PAT NEVIN • The ex-Chelsea and Scotland man, and ardent music fan, picks four figures who have inspired him down the years

JOHNNY VAUGHAN • The TV and radio presenter discusses referee vendettas, coating off Lionel Messi and letting Rafa Benitez look after his children

GAMES THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

JULES BREACH • The TNT Sports presenter looks back on a season where underdogs constantly defied the odds

OASIS & MAN CITY: ALL PART OF THE MASTERPLAN • In 1994, a legendary photographer shot some iconic portraits for a soon-to-be legendary band. As Oasis’ reunion tour begins, the snapper and others explain how football was at the heart of their supersonic rise

THANK F**K IT’S FRIDAY • Wild child Robin Friday was a pro footballer for less than four years, and dead before he was 40. But his legend lives on, thanks to his skills and his antics – from squeezing Bobby Moore’s testicles to impersonating a policeman

ROCK ON FRANK WORTHINGTON • Some footballers were just quintessentially rock ’n’ roll, be they music buffs, style icons or hellraisers – or all of the above…

SACKED, BANNED, JAILED: GEORGE BEST AFTER MANCHESTER UNITED • The icon’s Old Trafford exit aged 27 paved the way for a decade of globe-trotting and drama, as everybody tried to sign the former Ballon d’Or winner… with mixed results

WATFORD The Elton John years • The late Oli Phillips reported for the Watford Observer from 1968 to 2005 – prior to his passing, he gave FFT the fascinating inside story of a rock ’n’ roll superstar’s love affair with his club…

“I hope I entertained people – I know I did, to be honest” • With all the nonchalance of a rock star, Dimitar Berbatov was a cult figure during his career. He tells FourFourTwo how he became a style icon, via pig bladders and spaghetti westerns

RUUD AWAKENING • Thirty years ago this summer, swaggering Dutch great Ruud Gullit brought sexy football to Stamford Bridge and began Chelsea’s trophy-winning era – even if toe-breaking blizzards tended to make him angry

HOW ARSENAL CONQUERED THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE • No English women’s club side had been European champions since the Gunners themselves in 2007 – their journey back to the top owed much to smart recruitment, huge crowds and crazy comebacks…

PYRAMIDS FC AFRICA’S NEW CHAMPIONS • Like Arsenal Women, there were underdog winners in the men’s CAF Champions League. Renamed in 2018, the Egyptian winners didn’t even have a domestic league title in the bank

JOHN ASKEY • The manager of the National League’s first Cornish club on huge ambitions and seeing his own letter of dismissal get printed before his eyes…

SCOTLAND’S STADIUM SWAP • Hamilton Academical and Clyde will be hosting games in each other’s grounds in 2025-26, following a series of increasingly ludicrous events…

SOUTHEND UNITED • Lifelong Shrimpers Liam Ager and Piers Hewitt recall Big Phil’s jitters, CR7’s struggles and some Stan genius

WREXHAM’S RISE? A LOAD OF COBBLERS! • Sixty years ago, Northampton enjoyed their sole top-flight campaign, following...