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Every month, our team deliver the biggest names, the finest features and the most respected columnists in football. FourFourTwo is the only magazine that truly reflects football in all its extremes. Spectacular, dramatic, hilarious, opinionated, authoritative, intelligent, quirky - from the grass roots up, if it's in the game, it's in FourFourTwo.

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WELCOME

THE BEAUTIFUL GAME

NEMANJA MATIC • “A Serbian lady helped me plan my escape from Gareth Southgate’s Middlesbrough – I took a taxi to the airport”

THE ULTIMATE QUIZ • Another bonkers year of football draws to a close – but how much can you remember about 2025?

GAMES THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

WHICH PREMIER LEAGUE MANAGER HAS DONE THE BEST JOB IN 2025?

MERRY CHRISTMAS AFCON • Struggling for something to do over the festive period? Sit back and enjoy the world’s most chaotic tournament as Africa’s finest vie for continental glory

JULES BREACH • From managerial drama to England glory, the TNT Sports presenter picks her 2025 highlights

RAY DAVIES • The Kinks frontman on watching the Gunners with brother and bandmate Dave, and nearly missing a gig to see England’s World Cup win

“Stop! Hammar time” • No other fanbase in women’s football can match the ultras of Swedish side Hammarby, who turn up in their thousands for every game, tifos in hand

AN IRRESISTIBLE TRIO • Mark White picks out the three finest individual displays of 2025 – two of them came from the all-conquering PSG

Never. Say. Die. • England flirted with elimination on several occasions during their dramatic defence of the Euros – through sheer grit and determination they survived, and then wrote history by becoming champions once more. Even Heather Small was impressed…

THE SPECIALS ONE • Frank Lampard didn’t always receive comparisons with Jose Mourinho during a mixed start to life as a manager, but this year he’s incredibly guided Coventry City from mid-table obscurity to the top of the Championship. As he tells FFT, his early experiences in the dugout were vital

“SO, WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE FIRST WEEK OF YOUR JOB, GUYS?” • Few people have ever started a new role quite as well as Joao Pedro. Within days, he’d scored three crucial goals to help Chelsea win the Club World Cup – he tells FFT how it felt, and why his three-year ban on soft drinks paid off…

BIG DAN BIG YEAR • Scoring at Wembley to bag Newcastle’s first trophy in 56 years, then making his England debut at 32 – it shouldn’t happen to a former non-league defender and Asda trolley-pusher, but Dan Burn wrote his own scripts in 2025

SURPRISE, SURPRISE • It wasn’t just Newcastle who defied expectations during a weird 2025 – while Manchester City won nothing, others also enjoyed unlikely success

ENGLAND’S NEXT GAFFER? • After a stint as the Three Lions’ interim boss last year, Lee Carsley proved his credentials even further by winning a second successive Under-21 Euros in 2025 – he tells FFT why he’s improving as a manager

FOREVER A CHAMPION • Diogo Jota’s final act as a Liverpool player was to pose with the Premier League trophy in May – his tragic death devastated the football world, but his achievements at Anfield and beyond will never be forgotten

HENRY WINTER MEETS… JACK WILSHERE • The renowned sports writer chats with an Arsenal hero who overcame adversity to run 26 miles and become Luton’s new gaffer in 2025

THE BOY’S A BIT SPECIAL • We assess a Chelsea-bound starlet and Bournemouth’s new strike ace

“AT 16, A NATIONAL NEWSPAPER FRONT PAGE SAID I WAS ON £5,000 A WEEK IT WASN’T TRUE. IT CHANGED THE COURSE OF MY LIFE” • Joe Cole went from wonderkid to Premier League winner, via showdowns with Abramovich and Sven, plus a phone call from Fergie. To coincide...