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Football film GOAL! received mixed reviews from critics when it came out in 2005, but it grew to become a cult hit, especially on Tyneside. Lead actor Kuno Becker told FourFourTwo how he overcame a lack of playing skills – as well as two broken ankles – to be given the life-changing role

Vacancy: Senior digital staff writer at FourFourTwo
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🏟️ It’s a joy to watch football in this place at the minute

🕵️‍♂️ Nice see some of my investigative journalism finally recognised. Thank you @footballcliches.bsky.social for helping spread awareness of the deadly ‘Baresi-Maldini stat’ that has claimed numerous victims. Most recently, Gary Lineker 💀

He’s from Blyth.

Great to see @alanshearer.bsky.social at the match today 🙋‍♂️

🎥👔 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝘂𝗴𝗼𝘂𝘁
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*Strictly no Adams

How Nigerian Londoners found their identity through football

Brilliant long read 👇
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🗣 "You'll never sing that!"

I interviewed Trent Alexander-Arnold last year and he may have inadvertently revealed that his future lies away from Liverpool I asked the right back a direct question about his future in January 2024 and the response is telling 12 months on

🤐 One year ago Trent gave me the silent treatment, and 12 months on it speaks volumes
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Yeah, plugging away thanks. Busy 2025 on the horizon for various reasons! Hopefully bump into you at some point

Congrats mate! Hope you’re well.

The story of 2024 in FourFourTwo covers It's been another great year for football and for FourFourTwo, and our covers help tell the story of the past 12 months

2024, covered
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Newcastle United, Geordie identity and the strangest trophy drought in sport It has been 55 years without a trophy for Newcastle, a drought that mirrors the loss of industry in the north east. Now there's mega money; still there's desperation

I went to Newcastle United to write about the most extraordinary trophy drought in sport, pressure and a majestic city that lost its industry but never its identity.

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One of our lot in the Strawberry Corner does Christmas leftover sarnies each year: 30+ handed out at halftime 🖤🤍

Going to the match 🖤🤍

What happened to football on Christmas Day? The lost history of a Victorian tradition Football was once as much of a Christmas Day staple as the Queen's speech and pigs in blankets; but was it all festive fun or just a freezing farce? Paul Brown dons his silly hat...

Football was once as much a Christmas Day staple as the Queen's speech and pigs in blankets; but was it all festive fun or just a freezing farce?
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🎂 An honour to help blow out the candles on FourFourTwo’s 30th birthday cake this year with a bespoke Admiral football shirt, a superb tribute issue, an event with 100+ friends, fans, and 90s football legends, and branded pints of Guinness 🍻

In print, online, on video, and now EVENTS

Footballers doing little hops on one leg as they enter the pitch. Worst thing in football 🤮

How two brothers from the Netherlands have carved a highly lucrative niche in the football market via a simple idea you wish you'd thought of MatchWornShirt.com is the real deal, and they can even prove it

Last month I travelled to Amsterdam to visit MatchWornShirt and was blown away by the size, scale and style of their business model. The shirt game has changed yet again
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It’s a whole new ball game, and we’re pleased to be here

🥳 FourFourTwo’s 30th birthday party
📍 Classic Football Shirts, London
🎙️ With special guests Jules Breach, Paul Merson and Ray Parlour
🎟️ 100 fans and friends of the brand
🍺 Sponsored by Guinness
🫠 We’re event planners now…

We’ve almost reached the 10 year anniversary of Dennis Wise just turning up on TV with this hair (25th January, for all who celebrate).

San Marino could get World Cup play-off spot - but it's Scotland who won't have that opportunity via the Nations League San Marino and Scotland play their final Nations League game of the campaign on Monday, but only the southern European minnows can still reach the World Cup play-offs via the competition

Explained: how San Marino may have just earned a World Cup playoff spot via the Nations League
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Me at 11.50am today

The forgotten story of … 17 November 1993 | Rob Smyth The final night of the old World Cup qualifying system was a sensory overload of drama that included death, ‘murder’, illegal aliens – and Jack Charlton almost chinning Tony Cascarino

Brilliant telling of a mad night, 31 years ago
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As a lifelong FourFourTwo reader, am v. chuffed to have contributed a feature to their latest edition. It’s on the chaotic recent history of Saint-Etienne

Final straw for me on Twitter was this banger only getting 11 likes