Friday 14 November 2008, 12:30
If life is like a box of chocolates, then football is like an aircraft hanger full of chocolate-coated random number generators - frankly, nobody has a sodding clue what’s going to happen next. No sooner had Didier Drogba doled out parking-meter change...
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Thursday 13 November 2008, 10:00
Anyone who's watched young siblings fight will know that when there's a squabble, nobody wins. There's anger, there's often violence, then there are tears and recriminations, then a stilted truce and a fractured peace which never quite...
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Tuesday 11 November 2008, 10:00
FourFourTwo 's trip to South Africa with the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK is imminent and we're afraid there's good news and bad. The bad news is that FourFourTwo 's hopes of sharing a tent with Leoline-haired former Newcastle...
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Friday 07 November 2008, 17:00
FFT.com's Ben Welch reflects on some absentees from the Best Players In The World list ... Between them they have collected 196 international caps and scored 57 goals, but neither of them could make FourFourTwo ’s list of the 100 Best Players In The...
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Friday 07 November 2008, 16:00
Desperate times, as they say, call for desperate measures. Unless, of course, you’re Arsene Wenger, in which case desperate times call for a whole bucket-load of whinging. This week Professor Yaffle has claimed that opposition players were intentionally...
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Friday 07 November 2008, 09:00
This week we’re having a look at the progress being made by the Premier League’s great and good, using information provided to us by our friends at Catalyst, using their PowerTable . On Monday we looked at the ‘Tier 4’ sides and on Tuesday we assessed...
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Thursday 06 November 2008, 14:17
There's been but one issue discussed around water coolers, on radio phone-ins and on internet messageboards worldwide this week - the 2008 incarnation of FourFourTwo ’s Top 100 Players in the World . As we’re sure many of you will be aware, our December...
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Wednesday 05 November 2008, 16:00
Using Catalyst’s PowerTable , we're analysing how each Premier League side has started the season, comparing their performance in the first 11 matches to the first 11 of last season and trying to gauge where they'll be come May. Following on from...
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Wednesday 05 November 2008, 00:00
Ronaldo, Messi, Torres, Casillas, Kaka, Villa, Ibrahimovic, Aguero, Ferdinand, Gerrard. No, it's not Man City's January shopping list: it's our Top 10, the FourFourTwo verdict on the best players in the world in 2008. Anyone agree? No one...
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Tuesday 04 November 2008, 23:30
FFT.com's Gregg Davies checks in with another helping of life on tour with Chelsea Full-time score in Rome: 10-8. Not Tuesday night’s Champions League showdown between Chelsea and Roma; it was, in fact, the final score between Chelsea and England...
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Tuesday 04 November 2008, 16:12
As anyone who's been listening to our ramblings will know, we're very big fans of Catalyst's PowerTable here at FourFourTwo.com Towers (for a full explanation of the madcap world of the PowerTable, click here ). Now, using the multi-functional...
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Tuesday 04 November 2008, 15:00
If a week is a long time in football or politics, a year can seem an eternity. Last autumn, FourFourTwo magazine’s inaugural list of the 100 Best Players in the World was topped by Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite. A load of Kaka ? Not 12 months ago ...
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Tuesday 04 November 2008, 10:45
FFT's Gregg Davies cadges a luxurious lift with the league leaders Ever wondered what it’s like to live the life of a professional footballer? So did we, and luckily we’ve had the chance to find out, thanks to an invite on board Chelsea’s private...
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Friday 31 October 2008, 18:34
On Monday we passed on our pearls of football wisdom and explained to anyone that would listen (and indeed read) why Chelsea losing at home to Liverpool may just help their title bid . We say ‘our pearls’ but actually we had a bit of assistance from those...
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Friday 31 October 2008, 13:00
The bastardised political cliché is true: a week really is a long time in football. Last Friday, when FourFourTwo.com put its writing hat on and skilfully sculpted its Premier League Preview blog, the idea Liverpool could forge a serious title bid was...
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