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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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GOOD TIMES NEVER SEEMED SO GOOD

PATRICE EVRA

MEAN WHILE IN… • …Cologne, the city’s carnival has returned to full swing – featuring a Bundesliga boss dressed as a horned pig

GAMES THAT CHANGED MY LIFE ROBERTO CARLOS

THE QUIZ SHOW BOSS • Hajduk Split’s manager first enjoyed fame as a TV contestant

25 BEST BOSSES IN WORLD FOOTBALL THIS YEAR • Across the globe, gaffers battled for honours in 2021 – we rate them based on a combination of their achievements and overall pedigree. Woof…

THE MEME KING • El Chiringuito star Josep Pedrerol went viral in 2021 – all thanks to Eden Hazard

REQUIRED READING

ASK A SILLY QUESTION MARK ‘2 TONE’ HATELEY • The former Rangers frontman discusses dodgy motors, myrrh and getting banged up in Glasgow

MY FOOTBALL • The actor, comic, rapper and David Brent sidekick recalls weird meetings in the Blackwall Tunnel, dictionary corner with Diego Maradona – and what he learned from Swedish football…

THE CANADIAN DREAM • A manager from Durham could take Alphonso Davies & Co to Qatar

THE ULTIMATE QUIZ • Awful pop songs, international switchers and aquatic creatures are all in this issue’s selection of teasers…

INTERVIEW AARON HICKEY • The teenage left-back became the first Scot to score a goal in Serie A since 1986 – now he’s reportedly caught Paolo Maldini’s eye at Milan

@ FOURFOURTWO ASKS… • WHAT’S THE FUNNIEST CHANT YOU’VE EVER HEARD AT A FOOTBALL GROUND?

‘2021? COMPLETED IT, MATE’ • Jorginho has hoovered up Champions League and Euros trophies in 2021 to silence the critics for good. The midfielder reflects on his brilliant year with FFT: stuffing Man City, Azzurri hysteria, meditation and all. Ommm…

THE HEADSPACE INVADER • Jorginho’s hypnotherapy guru says the Chelsea man is a star pupil – but anyone can do it…

EVERYONE, MEET ENGLAND’S FUTURE CAPTAIN

RAHEEM HAD A DREAM • As a boy, the Neasden local had his heart set on starring for England at Wembley. Last summer, he did just that as their undisputed star of Euro 2020 – and hasn’t forgotten his roots

LOW PROFILE, HIGH SUCCESS • Scotland and Wales have both enjoyed fine years, meanwhile – under gaffers who were rudely dumped elsewhere…

SOME THINGS ARE WORTH THE WAIT • Lionel Messi has enjoyed a glorious club career – but it’s been a different story for his country. Four disastrous finals had left locals lamenting a doomed figure… until last summer’s exploits

DER NEW BOMBER • After missing out on a cancelled Ballon d’Or in 2020, Lewy exploded into 2021. The Pole made more Bayern Munich history with a fitting tribute to Gerd Muller in the year of his passing – but there’s still one final Bomber best to conquer…

WE’RE STILL DYNAMITE • Denmark began their Euro 2020 campaign with Christian Eriksen’s harrowing on-pitch cardiac arrest, before roaring back to reach the semi-finals. This is the story of how a team, and entire nation, came together as one

“I HAD THE SHOT AND IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT, ‘WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!’” • Patrik Schick’s halfway-line stunner ruined Scotland’s biggest day for 23 years at Euro 2020 – but as the man himself tells FFT, even he wasn’t sure about it…

IT’S BRERETONMANIA AND THERE’S NO CURE • In 2020, Ben Brereton Diaz was innocently minding his own business in the Championship… until all hell broke loose. A social media frenzy...