20 questions coming up, no time limit. Remember to tweet your scores @FourFourTwo and share with your mates. THEN TRY The last Friday football quiz We use Kwizly for our quizzes – find out more here How well do you know football? More than your mates? Test that theory out this Friday with our quiz, encompassing English, …
Read More »How to clean football boots: A step-by-step guide
Want to make your boots look brand new after each time you clean them? Follow these steps and your teammates will be asking if you’ve got a new pair of boots before every game. If you’ve played football for a while, you’ve most likely cleaned your football boots before (I …
Read More »'Huge difference in ability' – Football team with 5 transgender players goes undefeated in women?s tournament claiming $1000 reward
An amateur Australian soccer team has stirred controversy after the squad, which includes five transgender women, dominated a women-only tournament and claimed the $1,000 prize, according to a report. According to a Daily Telegraph, the Sydney-based Flying Bats FC went undefeated during the four-week tournament, including one game in which …
Read More »The best cities for watching football
Football is a global game. When compared to other sports, it is always ahead in terms of popularity across the world. While still to take off completely in North America, football is growing in the United States and Canada. And pretty much everywhere else, it is huge. You can catch …
Read More »The channel: football tactics explained
There’s no ‘right’ or ‘correct’ way to win a football match. Although so called purists might want to tell you differently, every tactic and strategy, whether defensive or attacking, has its own merits and place within our game. So why do so many of us naturally think it is better …
Read More »Shape: football tactics explained
If I’d have to choose one word that ignites memories from my junior football career more than any other – it would be ‘shape’. Struggling to sleep at night I can still hear, my first coach bellowing ‘keep the shape’ from the touchline. It was instilled into our under-9s team …
Read More »Blindside: football tactics explained
Not being aware of your blind spots always causes issues. If it happens when you’re behind the wheel, it normally leads to a failed driving test. And an even bigger problem (at least I think so) is when defenders are caught on their blindside by a pacey centre-forward. But it …
Read More »Compact: football tactics explained
“Some analysts are very objective, some are very subjective. But in the first half an hour, he had a point.” Even when Erik ten Hag was hitting back at Jamie Carragher’s Monday Night Football analysis after a defeat to Fulham, he had to admit the Liverpool legend had a point. …
Read More »Friday Football Quiz, episode 6: Can you get 20 correct answers?
20 questions coming up, no time limit. Remember to tweet your scores @FourFourTwo and share with your mates. THEN TRY The last Friday football quiz We use Kwizly for our quizzes – find out more here How well do you know football? More than your mates? Test that theory out this Friday with our quiz, encompassing English, …
Read More »‘If there’s one good thing that we left football, it wasn’t the Scorpion’ Legendary goalkeeper Rene Higuita describes making football history
Legendary goalkeeper Rene Higuita will forever be remembered for the outrageous scorpion kick he produced on a number of occasions during his career – most notably against England at Wembley in 1995. For the Colombian, though, it was another aspect of his play that most stands out to him, and …
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