Fifteen days after the Munich air disaster, the crash took its last life. It’s the anniversary of Duncan Edwards’ death.I visited his grave in late 2017. He’s buried in Dudley, where he grew up, and standing before him is a profoundly moving experience. Not in a good way. It isn’t enriching. In fact, it's very bleak. It’s not like standing before the eternal flame which burns in John Kennedy’s memory or sneaking into the grounds of Graceland. It’s just very sad; just a young man who was gone much too soon.When Edwards died, his father, Gladstone, took a job in that cemetery to be closer to his son. It’s difficult to think of something worse. Apparently, when well-wishers would drop...
Last season, Hyundai and Chelsea Football Club teamed up to launch a national grassroots football programme – Hyundai FC.So far, the initiative has given football clubs around the country a host of unique and unforgettable football experiences: featuring coaching sessions led by the Chelsea Foundation coaches at the Blues’ training ground in Cobham, bespoke training sessions at their local clubs, and a pitch day skills session at Stamford Bridge attended by Chelsea legend Gus Poyet. As a result, over 100 young players and their coaches from boys’ and girls’ teams across the UK have benefitted from the experiences and will continue to do so.And now that could be a team near you. Hyundai and Chelsea are opening up this opportunity...
Five minutes on the clock, 22clubsto guess. Because no, the Premier League hasn't always consisted of 20 clubs.Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwo, and challenge some mates.NOW TRYQuiz! Can you name every Champions League knockout club of the 2010s? Football looked very, very different 28 years ago.Arsene Wenger was managing Monaco and eyeing a move to sign Jurgen Klinsmann. Cristiano Ronaldo was just seven years old, presumably running 5km a day and practising stepovers every waking minute.It was a time of VHS, not VAR. The Barcelona Olympics, not Barcelona emergency signings. John Major, not major UEFA bans for Man City.And, on this day in 1992, the Premier League was formed.It was a day that would change English football forever. But unlike...
The Europa League has rolled around again, with five British teams in action across the continent.Manchester United face a tough away trip to Belgium as they take on Club Brugge in an early kick-off. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's men will be looking for that vital away goal to give them a boost ahead of the home tie.Arsenal are also away, travelling to Greece to play Olympiacos. The Gunners know it won't be an easy task, however - Olympiacos held Arsenal's bitter rivals Tottenham to a 2-2 draw in the autumn in the Champions League.The other Premier League side involved, Wolverhampton Wanderers, host Espanyol, who like Wolves themselves, have reached this stage via the qualifying rounds of the tournament.Elsewhere, there is Scottish...
Whenever he strides out to represent his country, Martin Braithwaite recalls his remarkable route to international football. Once, it was far from certain he’d even be able to walk, let alone become a successful footballer. “I’m grateful every day,” the 24-year-old toldFourFourTwoin March 2016.Braithwaite was football-mad from the start. A picture of him kicking a ball was captured by his local newspaper when he was just two years old. But at five, everything changed.SEE ALSO: The transfer that's shocked Spanish football - the story of why Martin Braithwaite's transfer to Barcelona has been allowed to happen“I was told I had to go into a wheelchair,” the Dane explains. “I had something called Legg-Calve-Perthes disease, which means the rotation bone in...