Sevenminutes on the clock, 30 namesto guess - we've even listed the years that they turned out for their country.Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwoand share with your mates.NOW TRYQuiz! Can you name the Premier League top scorers from 2000 to 2009? It's four years today since the great Johan Cruyff passed away.Cruyff left us with so much more than memories too. The flying Dutchman was the face of Total Football, the leader of the greatest side to have never won the World Cup, and he revolutionised Barcelona in his image. He laid the foundations of modern football.When we think of the Netherlands, we think of sophisticated football. Of the Ajax academy, of intelligent players and of beautiful attacking play. That's...
He's gone out? Yorke kidding!Dwight Yorke was already in Sir Alex Ferguson's bad books when he was spotted out drinking with fellow Trinidad and Tobago international Russell Latapy in May 2001, breaking the club's 48-hour curfew around match days.When Fergie failed to allocate him a squad number in the close season, Yorke's number was up. He joined forces with the shy and retiring Graeme Souness at Blackburn in August.Fergie still retained a soft spot for Yorke,saying the striker "was fantastic from day one." Just not in season three.The greatest dancer lets looseAfter being spotted at what was described as a"drug-fuelled" party 36 hours before an FA Cup match in January 2018, Alex Iwobi was hauled over the coals by Arsene...
Fiveminutes on the clock, 120 clubsto guess - obviously, quite a few clubs have won it 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? It's the ultimate accolade for any footballer- no, not a place in Garth Crooks's team of the week, but a medal for winning the league title.Ever since the late 1880s, when Queen Victoria sat on the throne no less, the best sides in the country have battled it out to become champions of England. That's right - football didn't start in 1992.We've had 120 champions now. The only times that the English league ever paused was for World Wars I...
Next summer’s men’s competition now finishes after the women’s one begins. This unnecessary clash suggests the latter remains an afterthought for UEFA, writesClaire BloomfieldUEFA haven’t exactly covered themselves in glory over their handling of the forthcoming European Championships. In much like they do with their elite club competitions, the European governing body have treated the women’s tournament as little more than an afterthought.After an emergency meeting last week they confirmed that the Women’s Euro 2021, set to be staged in England, was to be rescheduled to accommodate the men’s edition of the competition, which was postponed by 12 months as the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic.The lengthy statement released by Europe’s governing body announcing Euro 2020 would now take...
It may have only been £50,000, but it was a decent gesture from Manchester United as they combined with Manchester City to support the Manchester’s foodbanks at the weekend. Those foodbanks have been fan-led initiatives, stocked up and replenished by collections at games to help others in their community, in supposedly a first world economy where people still go hungry.Ahead of their final game before the suspension of football, United gave all 700 fans who’d bought a ticket to travel to the away game in Austria £350 in compensation, which they didn’t need to do. LASK, their opponents, would be in no such position to compensate all their fans who were set to travel to Manchester for the second leg....