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
World Cup, day 12: the things you might have missed
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FIFA World Cup Iran come close to upsetting Portugal thanks to a Ronaldo penalty miss and a VAR intrusion, Spain draw with Morocco but still top Group B - and will face Russia after their 3-0 defeat to Uruguay
Quiz! Can you name the last 30 players to score in a League Cup final?
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Football quiz Ahead of Arsenal’s clash with Manchester City this weekend, can you name the last 30 footballers to make their mark on the early-year showpiece?
Quiz! Can you name the last 50 players to score for Manchester United?
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Football quiz Last weekend, Man United saw their 500th different goalscorer – ever – in competitive games. But can you name the most recent 50?
Revealed! Data shows which Premier League club has the hardest start to the season - and which are on easy street
By Alex Reid published
Premier League Fantasy Football enthusiasts might want to avoid buying Everton defenders, as the first 10 Premier League fixtures of 2017/18 reveal hard starts for Toffees and Arsenal
FourFourTwo's 100 Greatest Footballers EVER
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FFT 100 Greatest We enjoy a challenge here at FourFourTwo, so here we go: from 100 to No.1, counting down the greatest footballers to have played the game
Quiz! Can you name this season’s leading Premier League scorers from 48 different countries?
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Football quiz It's every nationality represented on Premier League scoresheets this season after 18 games. Can you name each country’s most prolific player?
Quiz! Can you name the 36 players to finish in the Ballon d’Or top three since 1995?
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Football quiz Every footballer to have finished first, second or third in the Ballon d’Or voting since the mid-'90s. Can you recall them all?
Quiz! Can you name the regular starting XI for EVERY Premier League side this season?
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Football quiz Are you ready for this? It’s the players who’ve started the most games for each Premier League club in 2017/18. Do your best…
Quiz! Can you name the top 50 assisters currently playing in the Premier League?
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Football quiz Henrikh Mkhitaryan can match an assist record this weekend – so what better time to test your knowledge of the Prem's current leaders?
Quiz! Can you name all 24 current Championship managers?
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Football quiz The Championship season kicks off today, but can you name the gaffers in charge of its clubs? From newcomers to the three-year “veteran"...
Quiz! Can you name the last 31 players to score for England in a major tournament?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz For England, the dream is over – but at least this summer delivered 12 goals and six new scorers to add to this list: every player to score at a World Cup or European Championship since 1996
Quiz! Can you name the 50 highest-scoring Fantasy Premier League players of this season?
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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?
Every current Premier League club’s greatest EVER win in the competition
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Premier League The modern victories that have meant the most to the top flight’s current 20 teams, from incredible fightbacks to title-deciding triumphs
Ansu Fati becomes youngest Champions League goalscorer – but what happened to the others?
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UEFA Champions League Barcelona's prodigy has done it, aged 17 years, one month and 10 days. These teenagers all netted goals in Europe’s top club competition post-1992, but how they did fare after?
Paulo Ferreira: In 2012, I was worried we were getting too old to win Champions League with Chelsea
By Alex Reid published
FourFourTwo Films The Portuguese defender arrived at the club with Jose Mourinho in 2004 and experienced Chelsea just miss out in Europe's premier competition again and again. Then, just when he thought the chance had passed...
Summer transfer rumours: the 10 big moves to watch
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Premier League We’re into the final week of the transfer window: is there still time for these major moves to play out before deadline day?
Quiz! Can you name the top 27 scorers from the 1999/2000 Premier League season?
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Football quiz One hero hit 30 goals for Sunderland as the Premier League crossed the millennium. But can you name all of the players who reached double figures for the 1999/2000 season?
Frank Lampard reveals goalkeeper he’d hate to come up against: John Terry!
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Chelsea Terry had a secret love of going in goal, Chelsea’s all-time record scorer tells FourFourTwo – while also revealing the most “outstanding” footballer he ever played with
England 0-1 Belgium: 5 big talking points from Kaliningrad
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FIFA World Cup England finish runners-up in Group G and will face Colombia in the last 16, after a second-string Three Lions lost thanks to Adnan Januzaj's wonderstrike
Quiz! Can you name the 18 Premier League referees to officiate a match this season?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Boo! It’s the boys in black – or pink/green – charged with keeping the Prem peace. Surely you know these woebegone chaps…
Quiz! Can you name the 50 all-time Premier League appearance-makers?
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Football quiz As a left-footed stalwart joins a jinking left-winger atop the Prem appearance table, we ask you to name the 50 players who've racked up the most games
Quiz! Can you name all 36 goalscorers from the last 20 years of FA Cup finals?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz The goalscorers and match-winners from the last two decades of the world’s oldest cup competition
Quiz! Can you name all 37 England one-cap wonders of the last 20 years?
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Football quiz It's every English boy’s dream to some day play for their national team, and some go on to make it a reality – even if it's only for one day