
Alex Reid
Alex Reid is a freelance journalist and the former digital features editor at FourFourTwo. He has also written for the Guardian, talkSPORT, Boxing News and Sport magazine. Like most Londoners, he is a lifelong supporter of Aberdeen FC. He is deceptively bad in the air for a big man. He has never been a cage fighter.
Latest articles by Alex Reid

Quiz! How many of the 54 players to score multiple Premier League hat-tricks can you name?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz It’s the Prem's hat-trick kings – from the all-time leader on 11 to the player rapidly catching him on eight...

Quiz! Can you name the 15 players who are the ONLY footballers from their country to score in the Premier League?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz As a Liverpool defender becomes the first ever Estonian to score in the Prem, let's test you on the league’s one-nation wonders

Quiz! Can you name the 17 highest own-goal scorers in Premier League history?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Unlucky or just clumsy hoofers? These footballers all scored five or more own goals in their top-flight careers – time to name and shame…

Quiz! Name the 63 players to appear in every game for their club in the 2017/18 Premier League season
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz It’s the Christmas ever-presents - can you name the lads who’ve played a part in 18 out of 18 matches as we head into the festive period?

Quiz! Can you name the 38 most prolific Premier League free-kick takers over the last decade?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz It’s every dead-ball expert to score 3+ free-kicks in the Prem from the start of the 2006/07 season to today. Let’s test your accuracy…

Quiz! Can you name the 47 top scorers by country in the 2017/18 Premier League?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz The top goal-getter for EVERY nationality represented on Prem scoresheets this season, from English and Egyptian stars to the only Portuguese player to have netted this term

Quiz! Can you name all 30 South American players to appear in the Premier League in 2017/18?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Stars from Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador and more are shining in England’s top flight this season. Can you get them all?

Revealed! If every Premier League manager was a Star Wars character
By Alex Reid published
Premier League Search your feelings, you know it to be true: every single Premier League boss has a direct counterpart in the sci-fi film saga

Quiz! Can you name the top-scoring strike partnerships for each of the 26 Premier League seasons?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz The most prolific goalscoring club mates for each season – including famous partnerships for Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United and Blackburn

Quiz! How many of FourFourTwo's 100 Best Players in the World from 2007 can you name?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz As we count down the world’s best footballers in 2017, how many of our top 100 from a decade ago can you recall?

Quiz! Can you name the 31 Champions League top scorers after the 2017/18 group stage?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Liverpool have blitzed goals, while a new record has been set by a chap who scored in all six matches – but how many of the players with 3+ goals can you name?

Jaap Stam: I think of losing to Liverpool in 2005 more than winning with Man United in 1999
By Alex Reid published
Jaap Stam Dutch defender Stam has told FourFourTwo that defeat with Milan to the Reds is his overriding memory from Champions League finals.

Quiz! Can you name the top three Champions League appearance-makers for these countries?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Players who’ve featured in the most Champs League games from England, Spain, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, Portugal and beyond...

Juan Mata: There’s never been a problem with Mourinho – I wanted to prove myself at Manchester United
By Alex Reid published
Juan Mata Juan Mata has told FourFourTwo that his relationship with Jose Mourinho is not what the press make it out to be.

Quiz! Can you name all 28 Spanish players to appear in the Premier League in 2017/18?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz They’ve been pulling off saves, making assists and scoring goals in the Prem this season – but can you name them all?

Quiz! Can you name the 45 Premier League goalkeepers who’ve made the most saves in the past decade?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Manchester United’s No.1 has been making headlines with his incredible stats, but can you name every keeper to make at least 200 saves since 2006/07?

Quiz! Can you name the 50 highest-scoring Fantasy Premier League players of this season?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz With 13 games gone, these lads have been doing the business for their clubs and – equally importantly – their FPL investors. How many can you name?

Ranked! The 50 most hated people in football
By Alex Reid published
Lists Scumbag owners, filthy players, dire pundits – join FourFourTwo in our countdown of the most reviled individuals in the game

Quiz! Can you name the 35 players who've managed every minute of Premier League football this season?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz After 12 games, these ever-presents haven’t missed a second of Premier League action. But who are they?

Quiz! Can you name the 50 top-scoring Premier League defenders ever?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz John Terry may have retired, but his goal-getting legacy in the top flight will live long. From thumping header merchants to dead-ball experts, it’s the Prem’s most prolific defenders

Gabriel Jesus: “I used to play in prison, people were asking me if I’d been sentenced!”
By Alex Reid published
Gabriel Jesus From surprise tattoos to offside advice from his mum, the Brazil and Man City striker gives FFT the inside scoop in a new video

Quiz! Can you name the England line-up that beat Germany 5-1 in 2001?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz England’s starting XI – plus subs – for that crazy World Cup qualifier in Munich 16 years ago

Interview: Gary Cahill talks England highlights, heroes... and aggressive table tennis
By Alex Reid published
England The England defender tells FourFourTwo about his international memories, trips to Kazakhstan and the strengths of the current side
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