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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

KARL-HEINZ RIEDLE • “I’d never taken a penalty before the Italia 90 semi-final, but Peter Shilton was in goal and wasn’t the quickest then – it was quite easy”

THE ULTIMATE QUIZ • Put your football knowledge to the test with our questions about England legends, Basque bosses and birds

JULES BREACH • The TNT Sport presenter on why we should embrace players’ celebrations – not berate them

GAMES THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

WHO’S THE BEST ENGLAND BOSS AFTER SIR ALF RAMSEY?

ADRIAN DURHAM • talkSPORT’S chief live football presenter on how he fell in love with Peterborough, sticking up for Michael Carrick and the key to bladder control

ES KOMMT NACH HAUSE • Football never quite came home under Gareth Southgate, so now it’s down to Thomas Tuchel to end the Three Lions’ trophy drought. As we all know, never write off a German…

THOMAS TUCHEL • “WHERE’S THE ‘ONE OF OUR OWN’ THAT’S GOOD ENOUGH? THE FA HAD TO BE PRAGMATIC”

AN IMPOSSIBLE JOB (REVISITED) • As England kick off another quest to reach a World Cup in North America, FFT relives Graham Taylor’s ill-fated qualifying campaign for USA 94 – and the fly-on-the-wall documentary that became infamous…

SAN MARINO’S PLAY-OFF BID & 14 MORE THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN WORLD CUP QUALIFYING • Next summer’s finals will feature 48 nations for the first time ever, so as the battle for places intensifies, some unlikely nations – and Steve McClaren – are in the mix to make it in

BETWEEN THE LINES • “When the ball came to me in the World Cup final, I heard silence. Time stopped”

GREECE IS THE WORD • Controversy has often followed Evangelos Marinakis around, but he has transformed Nottingham Forest and led Olympiacos to his country’s first European trophy – thanks to some crucial interventions

Nottingham Forest’s year shouldn’t make sense… but it does • Nuno Espirito Santo’s side have shocked everyone this season, by giving up possession and expertly making themselves the kings of the counter-attack

FLAGGING GIANTS • One of Europe’s finest teams in the early 1990s, Sampdoria are now battling relegation to the third-tier Serie C for the first time – FFT travelled to their recent clash against Cosenza to hear about a decline featuring film directors, Andrea Pirlo and a pig’s head in the post…

THE KING OF WHITE HART LANE • Spurs’ answer to George Best, Alfie Conn was a north London cult hero in the 1970s – before controversially becoming the first post-war player to represent both Rangers and Celtic

GARY BOWYER • Burton’s firefighter on survival ambitions, Venky’s and lessons from the Class of ’92 at Salford

BLYTH AND KICKING • A community effort may have rescued 125-year-old Spartans from oblivion

PARTICK THISTLE • Matt Greer from Partick pod Draw, Lose or Draw recalls top Swedes, Pele imposters and a player-subduing SAS mission

PUFFER UP, FOOTBALL FANS • Designer Julie Herman turned her husband’s football shirt into a jacket, which are now taking the world by storm…

UP THE LATICS • Twenty years ago, Nathan Ellington fired unfancied Wigan Athletic to the top flight for the first time – he recounts the ride from third tier to Premier League…

Roberto Di Matteo • “WHEN TORRES KILLED OFF THE GAME AGAINST BARÇA, I KNEW SOMETHING DIVINE HAD TAKEN PLACE”

Rafael da Silva • “VAN GAAL LOOKED ME IN...