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

JARI LITMANEN • “When I signed for Ajax, people laughed at the idea – to them, Finns were only talented at rally driving or cross-country skiing”

THE ULTIMATE QUIZ • This month’s teasers test your knowledge of UEFA Cup legends, teenage sensations and the alphabet

JULES BREACH • The TNT Sports presenter gives her view on the new-look Champions League’s second season

GAMES THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

GATTUSO, DJORKAEFF & DEL PIERO… IN SERIE D?! • Three famous names have been combining in Italy’s fourth tier – as ambitious Sanremese aim to replicate Como’s rise to the top

IZZY CHRISTIANSEN • The former Lionesses star hails a midfield inspiration, her tennis-playing mother and Burna Boy’s no.1 fan

SHOULD THE NUMBER OF CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY-OFF SPOTS BE INCREASED FROM FOUR TO SIX?

AMY MACDONALD • The singer-songwriter on her tournament curse, praise from Messi and meeting Denis Irwin at a skiing championship

COLD AS ICE • Cole Palmer has become one of the Premier League’s greatest cult players, aided by big-game displays and a love of chippy chips. Former stars tell us how playing twice a day helped him to the top, and why he reminds them of Cantona and Gazza

“IT WAS TOUGH TELLING PEP I WANTED TO LEAVE, BUT IT WAS THE RIGHT TIME” • James McAtee followed Cole Palmer by leaving Manchester City this summer, aiming to become a Premier League star, too. After his £30m move to Nottingham Forest, England’s U21 Euros skipper tells us about Bratislava, backflips… and Bieber

RONALDO? VINICIUS JUNIOR? JIMMY CORBETT?! • The Boy’s A Bit Special feature returns to FourFourTwo this month – to celebrate, we look back at three decades of youngsters who we tipped for the top. Some predictions were more successful than others…

THE BOY’S A BIT SPECIAL • We kick things off for 2025-26 with this feature’s youngest ever player

“I was joining Barcelona, then Betis came in – only later did I realise it was a world-record fee” • Denilson’s skill made him a cult hit with fans, earning him a £21.5m transfer to La Liga. In his own words, he tells his story, via relegation in Seville, World Cup glory with Brazil and a car park snub at Bolton…

Picture perfect • Featuring a medieval fortress and a tribute to Ottmar Hitzfeld, FFT ranks the world’s most picturesque stadiums – we’ll be impressed if you’ve visited any…

“BEING IN A GOAL RACE WITH MESSI HAS BEEN SURREAL” SAM SURRIDGE CHATS WITH HENRY WINTER • A former EFL star has spent 2025 duelling with the greatest player of all time in a bid to finish as the top scorer in MLS

Diamond geezers • As the J.League’s last ever summer season reaches its conclusion, FFT headed to the Far East to watch Japan’s most supported team – after an appearance at the Club World Cup they’ll never forget

“WE LIKE THE OTHER REDS, TOO” • During our visit to Japan, FFT also met some of Tokyo’s most diehard Liverpool fanatics

FFT’S MISSION: INFILTRATE THE BALLON D’OR • After Japan, we travelled to Paris to peek behind the curtain of football’s biggest awards ceremony. On a night when a PSG player wins, it gets rather lively…

NO, IT’S NOT MY WISH TO BECOME PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA • Three decades ago, FFT labelled George Weah as Liberia’s next head of state, just after he’d been voted as the best player in the world for 1995. We revisit the interview he gave us, as he...