FourFourTwo UK - March 2020

100 Years of Wembley

England's national stadium celebrates its centenary in April. Ever since it opened in 1923, it's hosted great football history, from the iconic to the downright weird...

BEST & WORST HIBERNIAN

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

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

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

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...

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...

\"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

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

\"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

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