Jordan Ayew is one of the stories of the season.In a campaign during which no other Crystal Palace player has more than three goals, Ayew has scored eight times. That doesn't even equate to a ratio of one every three games, but it’s an important statistic which describes one of Palace’s biggest weaknesses, as well as the value of a player who manyhave beenfairly dismissive of in the past. Ayew scored that eighth goal on Saturday. Reliably, it was a picture: a touch out of his feet, then a snapped, drilled shot into Ben Foster’s far corner. Following his winner at Brighton, it was the second time in two games that he had scored the only goal in a 1-0...
Eight minutes on the clock, 39 teamsto guess.Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwoand share with your friends. NOW TRYQuiz! Can you name every team Manchester United and Manchester City have beaten in a final?CHECK OUT THE NEW ISSUEIn the mag: Stars of the decade! Rashford, Haaland, Martinelli Neves, Liverpool's last title win and moreWin a Champions League final and you write your name in the sky forever. You stand on the shoulders of giants alongside the biggest, the best and the boldest of football.And if you don't?As some sides will find out this week, the Champions League doesn't remember the sides that don't win it. But to get to the final and not win it? Heartbreaking.Today, we want you to try...
Fred was the final Manchester United player to leave Old Trafford after Sunday’s derby win. Along with a Manchester City player, the Brazilian was chosen for the random drug testing, which requires passing urine.That can take some time – as Mike Phelan, United’s now assistant manager, found out after his team had won the 1991 European Cup Winners’ Cup in Rotterdam. Phelan was selected and, in the words of Gary Pallister: “My roommate Micky Phelan had to do a drugs test, but he couldn’t pass urine so I agreed to wait with him. So did Paul Ince. We didn’t want to leave him alone and said we’d get a taxi back to the hotel. We waited for ages, then saw...
RB Leipzig are the most hated club in Germany.Everyone knows that by now, and the reasons behind the phenomenon are pretty obvious. Bundesliga fans are proud of their history and traditions. For them, football must not only be played for the fans – it has to belong to the fans. The German FA even has a 50%+1 rule that requires that individual members – supporters, essentially – own the majority of the voting shares at every club.So when a giant commercial company like Red Bull comes in and finds a way around those rules in order to establish a totally new club, in a move seen to be completely disregarding the sacred ethos, they are bound to be despised.Red Bull...
Les Ferdinand says that Leicester Citystriker Jamie Vardy is only a goal away from going on another scoring spree - despite not finding the net since before Christmas.Ferdinand played for the Foxes for two years and says that droughts are part and parcel of being a striker. Vardy had gone on a prolific run in the autumn in which he netted 12 goals in eight games, including a hat-trick in the 9-0 drubbing of Southampton.Speaking at the London Football Awards last week, Ferdinand said, "All he needs is one to go in off his knee or his elbow you know - not so much his elbow actually, it won’t count if it goes in off his elbow - and if...