Six minutes on the clock, 24 teamsto guess.Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwoand share with your friends - maybe send it over to a Leicester fan you know?NOW TRYQuiz! Can you name every current Bundesliga club?CHECK OUT THE NEW ISSUEIn the mag: Stars of the decade! Rashford, Haaland, Martinelli Neves, Liverpool's last title win and more Jamie Vardy was having a party. Morgan and Huth at the back. N'Golo Kante running rings around the rest of the league. Riyad Mahrez supplying moments of magic from the right.Some things have changed at the King Power Stadium since 2016, but Leicester City are a force to be reckoned with again - some four years after their 5000-1.The mighty Foxes are in action tonight,...
Although some will argue that England’s narrow 1-0 win over Japan in the SheBelieves Cup on Sunday posed more questions than it answered, with the Lionesses limping over the line courtesy of an 84th-minute winner from Ellen White, the influx of fearless young players in Phil Neville’s starting XI almost signals a changing of the guard.Ellie Roebuck, 20, Lauren Hemp, 19, Chloe Kelly, 22 and Bethany England, 25, – a self-confessed ‘late bloomer’ in the senior England fold having waited longer than most for a senior call up – all landed places into Neville’s line up in New Jersey on Sunday.Can we start every Monday like this?@ellsbells89 pic.twitter.com/HJ8F58bGrm— Lionesses (@Lionesses) March 9, 2020Even if he did ring in the changes...
This article first appeared in the March 2020 issue of FourFourTwo. You can subscribe to the magazine now and get every issue for less than £3.80, plus free bookazines worth £29.97!In many ways, Jose Mourinho and Sir Walter Raleigh have always been alike.An experienced explorer of foreign lands, Raleigh spent years in search of El Dorado. The lost city, allegedly laden with gold, was a legendary location throughout the Spanish Empire. It was believed to be somewhere in South America, and numerous adventurers had tried to find it. Raleigh may have been from Devon, but he fancied a go as well. During the middle of the Anglo-Spanish War, he sailed west to Trinidad, captured a Spanish governor and grilled him...
Ten minutes on the clock, 38 teamsto guess.Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwoand share with your friends - get the United and City fans you know on board.NOW TRYQuiz! Can you name every MLS team for the 2020 season?CHECK OUT THE NEW ISSUEIn the mag: Stars of the decade! Rashford, Haaland, Martinelli Neves, Liverpool's last title win and more There are quite a lot of trophies in cabinets over in Manchester. And those are just the ones Ryan Giggs won.Combined, Manchesters United and City have won 26 league titles and more cups than you could shake a stick at. They've both ruled England - at one time or another - and both have been victorious in Europe.So since it was the...
Jose Mourinho’s public criticism of Tanguy Ndombele has re-emphasised an old issue. Whether Mourinho was actually critical is questionable, he really just verbalised a frustration which is widely shared and of which everyone is aware, but the reaction has highlighted again just what a sensitive issue the commentary around players can be.To many, this is the third rail of modern football - the place where you must never, ever step.But why?Perhaps that fear is an indictment of the contemporary player. The logic seems to be that with wealth comes ego, with fame comes vulnerability, and the combination of the two makes today’s footballer uniquely delicate. Not necessarily mentally fragile, but incapable of processing any sort of correction to attitude or...