
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 Everton’s 50 highest Premier League appearance-makers after 1,000 games?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz U-S-A! U-S-A! The players who’ve played the most league games for the Toffees since 1992, from the American on 354 to half a dozen Scots

Quiz! Can you name the Premier League’s top assist creators from these 50 countries?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz From the Welsh winger with 162 assists to a Ghanaian midfielder on 10, can you name the most creative Premier League players from these major nations?

Quiz! Can you name the 29 Premier League players to register a goal AND an assist in 2018/19?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz We’re five games into the new season and these players have hit the ground running by both scoring and laying on an assist for a team-mate

Matthijs de Ligt: I've heard nothing about interest from Tottenham…
By Alex Reid published
Matthijs de Ligt Highly rated 19-year-old centre-back has told FourFourTwo it’s flattering to be linked, yet he’s focused on Ajax – but Davinson Sanchez is definitely an animal.

Quiz! Can you name the last 12 players to open the scoring for England in a major tournament?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz England players who scored the first goal for the Three Lions in World Cups or European Championships from 1990 to 2018 in our quickfire quiz

Quiz! Can you name the last 22 footballers to have played in FOUR or more World Cups?
By Alex Reid last updated
Football quiz After a Mexican stalwart played in his fifth World Cup, can you name the men who’ve featured in a World Cup this century – and played at four or more tournaments overall?

Quiz! Can you name the top 25 attacking players from the 2018 World Cup?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Goals and assists combined, each of these players contributed directly to three or more goals in Russia this summer. Time to name them...

Quiz! Can you name the 2014 World Cup final line-ups for Germany 1-0 Argentina?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Four years ago today, the World Cup final took place in Rio de Janeiro as Germany beat Argentina 1-0 in extra time, but can you recall the 28 players that appeared on the pitch?

Quiz! Can you name these World Cup countries by their national anthems?
By Alex Reid last updated
Football quiz The World Cup is here! We all know what that means: watching footballers stand in a line and singing anthems (then a match usually follows)

Quiz! Can you name the 55 highest-scoring Fantasy Football players for the 2018 World Cup?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz It's the top scorers for the Telegraph’s Fantasy Football World Cup as we reach the semi-final stage. Do you know the players who’ve done the business in Russia?

World Cup, day eight: the things you might have missed
By Alex Reid published
FIFA World Cup Argentina are trounced by Croatia on a madcap night in Nizhny Novgorod, after France knock out Peru and Australia hold Denmark to a draw

World Cup, day six: the things you might have missed
By Alex Reid published
FIFA World Cup Russia defeated Egypt 3-1 despite Mohamed Salah's penalty, Senegal beat a lacklustre Poland 2-1, while an early red card hindered Colombia as they lost 2-1 to Japan

World Cup, day 19: the things you may have missed
By Alex Reid published
FIFA World Cup Belgium come back from 2-0 down against Japan to win 3-2 and will face Brazil in the quarter-finals, after Neymar starred in a 2-0 victory over Mexico

Celtic and Rangers in the ‘90s: When the Old Firm felt (even) bigger
By Alex Reid published
Scottish Premiership Gazza, Larsson, Laudrup, Viduka: Scotland’s giants boasted attacking superstars... before the Premier League’s growth swallowed everything up

Quiz! Can you name all 33 England players to take a shootout penalty in a competitive tournament?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz From Italia '90 to the Nations League 2019, these are the players who’ve scored – or missed – in a penalty shootout for England

Don’t buy into the fantasy: why there's no Raheem Sterling redemption story
By Alex Reid published
Raheem Sterling The Manchester City and England star didn't deserve the animosity he received, and his new narrative sets a dangerous precedent

Ansu Fati becomes youngest Champions League goalscorer – but what happened to the others?
By Alex Reid published
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?

Quiz! Name the 19 players to score a hat-trick for Arsenal in the Premier League
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz The Gunners have had a greater variety of hat-trick scorers than any other Premier League club. Name ’em…

Quiz! Name the 68 uncapped English players who’ve played in the Premier League this season
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz One for the true Prem quiz brainiacs out there. Can you name the league's potential England players yet to play a full international?

Quiz! Can you name all 37 England one-cap wonders of the last 20 years?
By Alex Reid last updated
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

Peter Crouch: I nearly killed Dirk Kuyt!
By Alex Reid published
Peter Crouch The big striker tells FourFourTwo how he had to choose which Liverpool player to crash into when the team when go-karting in 2007

FourFourTwo's 100 Greatest Footballers EVER: 30 to 21
By Alex Reid last updated
FFT 100 Greatest The greatest player of the mid-2000s, the 20th century’s most intimidating keeper and England’s fairytale hero

FourFourTwo's 100 Greatest Footballers EVER: 40 to 31
By Alex Reid last updated
FFT 100 Greatest Italy’s golden boy, Spain’s only Ballon d’Or winner and the ageless Wizard of the Dribble

FourFourTwo's 100 Greatest Footballers EVER: 60 to 51
By Alex Reid last updated
FFT 100 Greatest Milan’s greatest goalscorer, Brazil’s World Cup record-breaker and the most intense kiss of the World Cup

Cohen Bramall: "I'd never seen a mannequin in my life until I got to Arsenal"
By Alex Reid published
Arsenal One day he was on his way to a trial with Shrewsbury – the next he was training with Mesut Ozil. The 22-year-old former factory worker tells FourFourTwo all about his "mentally tough" first six months at Arsenal
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