Premier League
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Arsenal expecting 'bidding war' for prolific striker: report
By Matthew Holt published
Arsenal are looking to cash in amid a summer of potential squad movement
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Manchester City dealt transfer blow amid pursuit of teenage star: report
By Matthew Holt published
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola is a huge fan of one talent who may be out of reach in the near future
Long Reads
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Mark Goldbridge: meet the Alan Partridge of Manchester United YouTube – “I take it as a compliment... just be who you are”
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Manchester United Aha! Whether you love him or laugh at him, the ex-copper’s Twitter chat and Manchester United rants are compulsive viewing. He explains life from his side of the screen...
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'I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: Suddenly. Inexplicably. Uncritically. Giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it': Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch
By Bill Borrows published
INTERVIEW Nothing speaks to fandom like Hornby's 1992 classic, published when Highbury was crumbling and football literature amounted to little more than your matchday programme. Thirty years later, FFT grabs lunch with the author himself to chew the pasta over Arsenal, Fever Pitch's legacy, the wider game - and just a touch more Arsenal...
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Free scarves, free travel, free booze and three goals: inside the Sunderland vs Newcastle United bubble match
By Matthew Ketchell published
FourFourTwo’s Deputy Editor Matt Ketchell attended the Wear-Tyne derby inside the Newcastle United ‘bubble’ as 6,000 supporters were bused to and from the Stadium of Light under heavy police escort
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How Beckenbauer became the brains, guts and vision of Bayern Munich
By Paul Simpson last updated
Franz Beckenbauer Did Der Kaiser invent total football? Some say so...
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The birth of the replica football shirt, 50 years on
By Matthew Ketchell published
LONG READ It's exactly half a century since a small Midlands firm went from manufacturing nuns’ knickers to selling the world’s first replica football kits, just in time for Christmas
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What happened to football on Christmas Day? The lost history of a Victorian tradition
By Paul Brown published
Premier League 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...