Find all of FourFourTwo's essential Football Manager 2020 content hereThey say the best things in life are free. And this week, that’s 100% true.You might be cooped up inside avoiding coronavirus, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t still pretend that the football is on.The good guys at Football Manager have put the latest game online to play absolutely free for a week. The offer runs out Wednesday, 25 March – so you need to start playing quickly, and get off to the best possible start to make the most of it.We know that Football Manager 2020 is the best way to simulate the rest of the season, so check out our hacks for turning yourself from a rookie coach...
Since making the decision to leave England in search of first-team football -a rare movefor a British player, let alone a 17-year-old -Jadon Sancho has never looked back.Sancho became the first Englishman to play for Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga, the first player born in the 2000s to score a brace and to score in the Champions League for the club. He has gone on to break Lukas Podolski’s record, becoming the youngest Bundesliga player to score nine goals, finishing the 2018/19 season with 12 goals and 14 assists and a place in the Bundesliga team of the season. He has continued his upward trajectory with 14 goals and 15 assists in the league this season and should be a...
Neves played 42 games in the Championship for Wolves in 2017/18 and was named Fans’ Player of the Year, Players’ Player of the Year, and in the PFA team of the year.Wolves secured promotion to the top-flight in Neves’ first season with the midlands club after his unexpected move from Champions League outfit Porto for a club-record £15.8 million fee.Speaking exclusively to FourFourTwo in our April 2020 issue, in shops now, Neves, 22, revealed the challenge of playing in front of intimidating grounds in the Championship.“It’s not easy,” he said. “The competitive nature, the aggressiveness, the stadiums and the crowd. Actually, it’s why I think playing away in the Championship was tougher than in the Premier League, because of these...
By 2003, the relationship between Manchester United's David Beckham and manager Sir Alex Ferguson had passed its point of fracture.Long before a flying boot had struck Beckham above the eye following a 2-0 defeat to Arsenal at Old Trafford in February of that year, Ferguson had been harbouring doubts about his midfielder’s attitude.He wasn’t necessarily wrong and the anecdotes of the time hint at wavering focus. Such as the incident at Filbert Street, when Beckham refused to remove a hat during a team-meeting, ostensibly to protect the unveiling of a new haircut. Or how, unilaterally, he chose to miss training to remain with his unwell, infant son, causing a furious Ferguson to drop him ahead of a game against Leeds...
Seven minutes on the clock, 50 namesto guess - some appear more than once.Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwoand share with your friends - especially if they're gamers!NOW TRYQuiz! Can you name the top 20 rated players from every FIFA game in the last decade? English football has a close history with hat-tricks. After all - the only man to have ever scored a World Cup final hat-trick was English.The Premier League sees a fair few hat-tricks a year. They're a gift to your Fantasy Premier League team, but painful to be on the receiving end of.We've listed out the last 50 hat-tricks in the Premier League - which stretches back five years. That's a lot of goals.All we want you...