Paul Pogba is just 30 years old – yet he likely won’t play football again. Certainly not at the top level. Following a random drugs test in August, the World Cup winner tested positive for elevated levels of testosterone. He has since been banned from the sport for four years, …
Read More »Footballers who turned down big clubs
Football fans expect loyalty from their team’s players but, in the same situation, what would they do? Players are sometimes supporters of the club in question. More often that not, however, they are there due to circumstance. It is a job. Most people would be tempted to change their job …
Read More »Record number of footballers reach millionaire status
A record 19 AFL players earned more than $1 million last year — up from 12 players in 2022 — according to the 2023 total player payments summary released by the AFL on Monday. The rise comes off the back of the newly negotiated five-year collective bargaining agreement (CBA) which …
Read More »Quiz! Can you name the 27 footballers who have played with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo?
Ten minutes on the clock, 27 players to guess! Remember to tweet your scores @FourFourTwo and share with your mates. NOW TRY Quiz! Can you name the 30 biggest-spending managers ever? Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have dominated football over the past decade and a half, winning 12 Ballons d’Or between …
Read More »Quiz! Can you name these 20 footballers from their nicknames?
No time limit on this one, 20 players to guess. Remember to tweet your scores @FourFourTwo and share with your mates. THEN TRY Quiz! Can you name every Champions League hat-trick scorer of the 21st Century? We use Kwizly for our quizzes – find out more here Former Crystal Palace and Southampton star Fitz Hall has perhaps the greatest …
Read More »FourFourTwo’s 50 most influential footballers of all time
So… who are the most influential footballers of all time? Football is crafted by a select few. Coaches, like film directors, have a vision of how to play the sport. It’s up to players to execute those demands, like actors. And over the last century or so, there have been …
Read More »The best footballers of the 90s
From the birth of the Premier League to the outlawing of backpasses, the 90s were a time of great change for football. The last decade of the 20th century was also chock-full of great players – truly extraordinary players, even. Here, FourFourTwo counts down the best of them… 32. Thomas …
Read More »The real reason SO MANY footballers are getting injured this season
We need to talk about injuries. We’re barely a third of the way through the season – and players are doing hamstrings, ACLs and other body parts left, right and centre. In the Premier League, hamstring injuries alone are up nearly 100% compared to the same stage of the 2022/23 …
Read More »‘Many Nigerian Footballers Have Had Their Dreams Crushed Because Of You’ – Davido Drags Pinnick
Nigerian singer Davido has continued to call out the former Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) president Amaju Pinnick over the allegation that he was absent from a show in Warri after being paid $94,600. Naija News recalls that Pinnick, in a video that surfaced on social media, had accused the Afrobeat …
Read More »The most controversial footballers ever
Footballers are human beings like the rest of us, and while we shouldn’t expect them to never make mistakes on or off the pitch… they do. But the following went above and beyond in their courting of trouble. Here are the most controversial footballers of all time. 32. Toni Schumacher …
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