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! Can you name the top 30 World Cup assisters 2002-14?
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Football quiz It’s every player to craft three or more assists from across the last four World Cups. Time to name these ace playmakers…
Willian: Signing for Chelsea was... complicated – Liverpool and Tottenham were interested
By Alex Reid published
Willian The Blues’ Brazilian international tells FourFourTwo about his unusual path to west London
Quiz! Can you name the last 50 players to feature in a World Cup game for England?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Before the match that the planet is waiting for – England vs Tunisia – can you name the last 50 footballers to play in a Three Lions World Cup game?
Quiz! Can you name the 50 biggest club stadiums currently in use in Europe?
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Football quiz From the 99,000-seat behemoth to those around 50,000 - it’s the largest grounds to regularly host club football in Europe
Quiz! How many of the top 18 scorers from the 2013/14 Premier League season can you name?
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Football quiz The 30-goal target was breached by a Liverpool striker in an eventful Premier League season, where 18 players reached a double-digit tally. Can you recall them all?
Quiz! Can you name all 67 teams to ever play a Champions League knockout game?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Each of these clubs has escaped the group stage and made it to the business end of the Champions LEague in the post-1992 era. How many can you name?
Quiz! Can you name the goalscoring bogeymen against these Premier League clubs?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Thorns in your side: it's the players who’ve made a habit of scoring against a certain opposition
Quiz! Can you name the last 50 players to score a free-kick in the Premier League?
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Football quiz We’ve seen three cracking free-kicks already in the 2018/19 Premier League season – but can you name the last 50 dead-ball specialists to score in England's top tier?
Revealed! If every Premier League manager was a Star Wars character
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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 20 active Premier League players with the most appearances – and no England caps?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Each of these English players have racked up 100+ games in the Premier League – and counting – yet have never represented the Three Lions at senior level
How do you judge the best player of all time? FourFourTwo's writers make their picks
By Alex Reid published
FFT 100 Greatest What’s your process for judging the best players that football has ever seen? Here’s some alternative takes on the all-time greatest
Quiz! Can you name the top 24 goalscorers from the 1995/96 Premier League season?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz The Man United empire struck back, a Liverpool hot-shot flourished and Kevin Keegan’s Newcastle fell away. Can you name the players to hit double figures in a memorable season?
Quiz! Can you name the last 20 goalkeepers to play for England?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Hand in glove, the sun shines out of their bylines – it’s the last 20 men to play in nets for England, from the 1990s to the present day...
Quiz! Can you name the 25 biggest winter 2018 transfers involving Premier League clubs?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz How much attention have you been paying to the largest sums thrown around this January? Let’s find out…
Quiz! Name all 49 British goalscorers from the last 10 years of Champions League football
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Since 2007, a total of 49 English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish players have scored in the Champions League. Name them...
Quiz! Can you name all 28 Celtic players to score in the Champions League?
By Alex Reid last updated
Football quiz Every Celtic player to score in the Champions League since 1992, from Swedish strikers to mystery defenders
In the mag: Inside Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool! Dimitar Berbatov exclusive! How do England win in 2022?
By Alex Reid last updated
FourFourTwo Get your hands on the new issue of FourFourTwo magazine – available in print or on iPad and iPhone – from Wednesday, September 5
Ranked! All 32 World Cup teams based on their group stage performance
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FIFA World Cup The Russia 2018 group stage is over, but which sides have impressed, which are lucky to be in the last 16 and why do we have to go so far down to find Germany?
Win! Subbuteo set honouring Arsenal’s astonishing 1988/89 title-winning victory over Liverpool
By Alex Reid published
Competitions It’s up for grabs now... A limited-edition Subbuteo set, created especially for the release of the film 89
Quiz! Can you name the Premier League's 22 best score and assist partnerships for 2017/18?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz It's the Premier League’s most lethal scoring combinations. We’ve given you the player grabbing the goals, but can you name the man setting each one up?
FourFourTwo's 100 Greatest Footballers EVER: 80 to 71
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FFT 100 Greatest A dominant centre-half and a prolific striker - and that’s just John Charles on his own. Part three takes in players from Wales, Scotland, France, Italy and beyond
Revealed! Which Premier League sides have the hardest – and easiest – run-ins
By Alex Reid published
Premier League It’s some welcome good news for Arsenal fans – but Brighton and Crystal Palace face some seriously tough times ahead
Quiz! Can you name the top 20 scorers from the 2004/05 Premier League season?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Chelsea set a record Premier League points total and a Crystal Palace striker hit the form of his life - but can you recall all of the players to reach double figures in 2004/05?