Twenty-four years ago, Eric Cantona was reaching the end of a remarkable month of form. Beginning with that dragged volley at St James’ Park on March 4, 1996 which holed Kevin Keegan’s Newcastle below the waterline, Cantona would be Manchester United’s only goalscorer in four consecutive games.#OnThisDay in 1996, Eric Cantona scored the all-important winner as @ManUtd beat title rivals Newcastle on their way to #PL glory pic.twitter.com/8AtKNAlKe4— Premier League (@premierleague) March 4, 2019It’s a story retold often enough – of how he returned from Selhurst Park and suspension to lead United to the title – but frequently without the detail, or without quite enough reference to what he actually did in March and April. Cantona’s meander through the Tottenham...
Andy Cole went on to become the third-highest scorer in Premier League history, with the majority of his 187 goals coming for Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United.Yet Cole’s career began in north London for the Red Devils’ arch Premier League rivals Arsenal, but was restricted to just one league appearance for the Gunners in December 1990 and one Charity Shield runaround in 1991.He was then shipped out on loan to Fulham and Bristol City in the 1991/92 season, joining the latter permanently in the following season.In the Mayissue ofFourFourTwo magazine, on sale now, Cole opens up about what leaving Arsenal meant for his career.“It just didn’t work out. I believed I was good enough to play for Arsenal at the...
Twelve minutes on the clock, 80 namesto guess.Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwoand send to some friends!NEW ISSUEIn the mag! Ronaldo's new recordNOW TRYQuiz! Can you name every Premier League club ever? There was talk earlier on in the season about who would take Manchester City's penalties after a series of misses from various takers.One of the ideas floated was to give the duties to Ederson. You know - that tall, tattooedfella who plays in goal for them.While things perhaps haven't got that bad for City just yet when it comes to spot-kicks, the Etihad'spenalty missers aren't alone in the Premier League.We've listed out the last 80 players to flunk it from 12 yards - how many of them can you...
The new series of Sunderland 'Til I Die does not reflect well on Josh Maja. Actually, it doesn’t reflect well on all sorts of people, including but not limited to Stewart Donald, Charlie Methven, Jack Ross, and almost everyone who appeared in Season One of the Netflix documentary.Especially Jack Rodwell and Ellis Short.And the fan who squares up to Chris Coleman in the stadium car park.But Maja has a particularly hard time as – spoiler – his early goalscoring form in 2018/19 becomes so rich that the club find themselves unable to convince him to sign a new contract. Their attempts are rebuffed by his agent and the player finds himself, at one toe-curling point, promising local residents and even...
Pele, Zico, Garrincha, Romario, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Neymar - we could go all day - are just a handful of the iconic names to have called the Maracanã home down the years. Brazil’s largest football stadium has seen 200,000-strong crowds, World Cup finals and the Olympics, and is invariably included on the bucket lists of football fans around the world.But it is expecting visitors of a different kind over the coming months, with thousands of COVID-19 patients to be treated at the 80,000 seater venue, which is regularly used by Rio-based clubs Santos and Corinthians as well as the national team.Workers began preparing the site on Tuesday, with a field hospital capable of hosting patients carrying the virus to be erected...