We call it the beautiful game, but sometimes it gets ugly.From spats between team-mates and coaches to fans taking aim at owners and governing bodies, we’ve put together the ultimate collection of footballing feuds from the 21st century.50. Frank Lampard vs Marcelo BielsaWhen Derby County found spies from Leeds United at their training ground in 2019, things got a little touchy between the two managers. Frank Lampard expressed his dissatisfaction in Marcelo Bielsa's methods, only for Bielsa to call a press conference.Though some gathered in the room and waiting on social media believed the Argentinian manager was calling the media to announce his resignation over the affair, Bielsa shocked everyone with a detailed presentation on his methods, including how to...
Fifteen minutes on the clock, 231 namesto guess - some, of course, appear more than once.Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwoand share with your mates.NOW TRYQuiz! Can you name the Premier League top scorers from 2000 to 2009? You never forget the game that won your side the title.Sometimes - as in Arsenal's case - the title is clinched at the ground of your rivals. Arsene Wenger's men mathematically won the Premier League at Old Trafford and White Hart Lane in 2002 and 2004 respectively.Other times, it's a rout - such as Chelsea's 8-0 demolition of Wigan Athletic. In Manchester United's case, it usually comes in just any old game that you'd usually forget.But then sometimes it comes in the final...
COVID-19 is not just wreaking havoc with governments and hospitals, it’s interfering with the sanctity of the football calendar.For over a century, football has started in August and ended in May in England, with occasional breathers to allow room for world wars. But with the Premier League enduring a prolonged hiatusin the wake of coronavirus,plenty of matches are being postponed.However, this isn’t the strangest reason that games of football have been called off for, over the years.The 1999 eclipse in TorquaySolar eclipses are once-in-a-lifetime events. They’re known about thousands of years in advance, too- so there’s no excuse for one to just sneak up on you.Try telling that to Torquay United. Devon police called off their League Cup first-round tie...
Fire has become a staple of the Premier League’s kick-off ceremony. Anyone who made it to a game before the lockdown will have noticed those little black boxes which now guard touchlines up and down the country. Some might even have lost an eyebrow to one of them.There’s a cliched response to this. It’s something new, therefore we must hate it. It’s the kind of eye-rolling razzmatazz which will always be associated with American sports and which, when it’s imported into Britain, can’t help but to be toe-curlingly naff. It’s forced fun and, sorry America, we hate that. The fashionable reaction – naturally - is to groan and complain, and to mumble facetiously about how things aren’t how they used...
The world is already a very different place to one week ago, though it feels like months since we last saw football on our telly screens.But in that time, we've come to realise that it is indeed most important of the unimportant things; emphasis here on the latter part of that sentence, rather than the former.But it’s also clear that football still matters, providing a sense of normality to so many supporters. Hopefully, the game we all love will return strongly once we're through to the other side.In the meantime, we're still fit and firing at FFT Towers to bring you some of our game's best stories in your housebound times of need.Our next issue is released into the wild...