In this issue

FFT’s Premier League Top 50
Ranking the stars who have shone the brightest across the dramatic 2022-23 campaign.

Emmanuel Petit exclusive
The world champion talks taxis from Spurs, serenity and loss.

Brian McDermott on the brink
Eight years ago the ex-Reading and Leeds manager woke up and admitted he had a problem..

50 BEST PREMIER LEAGUE PLAYERS RUGHT NOW

The 2022-23 season has brought drama at the top and bottom of the league FFT ranks the stars who have shone the brightest

10+ mins

THE BRIDGE TO HAPPINESS

Mauricio Pochettino’s time at PSG was largely joyless, after an equally sad end to his Tottenham era. Now the Argentine wants to smile again and remind everyone of the talents that transformed Spurs and Southampton

10+ mins

"If god took my brother, it was because he wanted me to do something in football"

The Marseille match-fixing scandal turned Emmanuel Petit into a zombie, but the midfielder hit back to become a champion with Arsenal and France, driven by a desire to honour the sibling he lost as a teenager

10+ mins

TEN YEARS, EIGHT TROPHIES: THE RISE OF PARMA

A little-known Italian club became one of Europe’s leading lights in the 1990s, boasting a squad packed with cult heroes and future legends. Three decades after Parma lifted their first continental trophy, FFT learns from those involved just how they did it

10+ mins

"Once I picked up a drink, I couldn't stop. I was feeling cloudy, anxious and depressed, and I thought, I've got to say it out loud'.It was the best thing I ever did."

Despite a lifetime feeling plagued by doubt, Brian McDermott reached the very top as a manager – but, as he tells FFT, one day he woke and knew he needed a cry for help

10+ mins

ENGLAND 8 AMERICA 2 HOW ENGLISH BOSSES RULED THE WOMEN'S GAME IN THE US

The USA are favourites to win their third Women’s World Cup in a row this summer, but England are continuing to close the gap off the field as well as on it. At the beginning of the 2023 season, two-thirds of coaches in the NWSL were actually born in Blighty...

10 mins

THE GREATEST PLAY-OFF FINAL EVER

Charlton met Sunderland at Wembley in 1998, eyeing up the Premier League. Cue: mayhem. Now, 25 years later, FFT speaks to the protagonists, from Quinny and Curbs to the man who slayed his heroes...

10 mins

BEST & WORST HIBERNIAN

Matty Fairnie from Hibs podcast Longbangers relives Scottish Cup joy, Terry Butcher woe and a heroic squirrel

2 mins

BABIES ON BOARD

Walton & Hersham were on their knees before a group of teenagers made the mad decision to acquire the club in 2019 – now, with the help of the ‘Non-league Erling Haaland’, they’re targeting the National League

5 mins

MY PERFECT XI BENITO CARBONE

The Italian includes former team-mates from Inter, Sheffield Wednesday and Aston Villa, and squeezes in a Ballon d’Or winner he helped to hit the big time

3 mins

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