Five minutes on the clock, 23 clubsto guess. How many can you name?Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwo, and challenge some friends - get theFoxes and Citizens you know involved.NOW TRYQuiz! Can you name every Champions League knockout club of the 2010s? He's alright, that Riyad Mahrez, isn't he?Former PFA Player of the Year, a two-time winner of the Premier League, a former African footballer of the year and winner of the African Cup of Nations in 2019 - he's had quite the career.And when he's on his day, there's no one in England who can stop him.As his current club take on his former club tomorrow, we'd like you to name every team that Our Riyad has terrorised.He's scored against...
Football at the highest level may be awash with more cash than ever before, but the sport has also seen its greatest boom of late developers over the last decade.On January 1, 2010 –the first day of the last decade –Jamie Vardy was still six months away from leaving Stocksbridge Park Steels in the Northern Premier League, approaching his 23rd birthday. By the end of the decade, he led the Premier League goalscoring chart for Leicester City, having already helped fire the Foxes to a stunning title victory, played in the Champions League and retired from England duty.Charlie Austin, Andre Gray, Troy Deeney, Rickie Lambert and Max Kilman all followed similar paths from non-league to Premier League, while young stars...
Ten minutes on the clock, 25 clubsto guess. How many can you name?Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwo, and challenge some friends!NOW TRYQuiz! Can you name the clubs who played in the first-ever Premier League season in 1992? The Championship is a cruel mistress.In the list of the 25 greatest points tallies the league has ever seen - since it was reformed in the mid-2000s - there are two sides who finished third.Two! Imagine that - you're statistically one of the 25 best teams your league have ever seen... but not automatically good enough for the Premier League.In fact, getting such high points tallies in the Championship is perhaps a bigger feat than in the Premier League. After all, the second...
After years of managerial moaning, the Premier League finally ceded to years of calls for a European-style winter breakthis season.Well, sort of.Forever protecting the sanctity of the New Year and Boxing Day games, the Premier League opted to have a two-week break where the clubs would get one of two possible weekends off, playing on the other to fulfil TV duties.Now it's over – and, well, did you notice a break?With Jurgen Klopp’s refusal to play the first-team in their FA Cup replay against Shrewsbury, and a host of England strikers - Marcus Rashford, Harry Kane, Tammy Abraham - getting injured at around the same time, the debate about whether to ease fixture congestion continues to rage.Here, welook at the...
When you think of the Barcelona greats, there’s plenty to choose from. Lionel Messi, Xavi, Andrés Iniesta, Romario, Rivaldo,Ronaldinho... it's not hard to rattle off a list. But, not everybody’s career in Catalonia was plain sailing.Some struggled to make their mark, despite doing so elsewhere. Some just struggled everywhere. Here are 20 players who were instantly forgettable despite gracing the turf of the Camp Nou.Christophe Dugarry - from AC Milan (1996)Barcelona produced a double raid in 1996 which saw both Dugarry and Michael Reiziger swap the San Siro for the Camp Nou, for a total fee of €9m. Dutchman and current Ajax assistant Reiziger may have gone on to make over 200 appearances for the club, but Dugarry had a...