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 every Premier League player to score in a World Cup since 1998?
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Football quiz From France ’98 through to the present day, these are the 107 occasions that a Prem star featured at a World Cup – and scored
Quiz! How many of Manchester United's 50 biggest ever transfers can you name?
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Football quiz The most expensive deals in Red Devils history, from big-money hits to the expensive flops. Can you recall the top 50?
Quiz! Can you name all 35 FA Cup final goalscorers since 1999?
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Football quiz Remember the late '90s? Spice Girls, the Millenium bug, the Euro... but can you recall who scored in the FA Cup final back then?
Quiz! Can you name Everton’s 50 highest Premier League appearance-makers after 1,000 games?
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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! How many of the 64 England players to appear in a World Cup match since 1998 can you name?
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Football quiz Every England footballer to feature in a World Cup match in the last two decades. Can you name all 64?
Quiz! Can you name all 32 teams who'll be at the 2018 World Cup?
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Football quiz With every slot now accounted for, can you name the national sides you’ll definitely be seeing next summer?
Quiz! Can you name the 14 previous Golden Boy award winners?
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Football quiz Nominations for the Europe’s best young footballer are out for 2017, but can you name the 14 past victors?
Gabriel Jesus: “I used to play in prison, people were asking me if I’d been sentenced!”
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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
World Cup, day 19: the things you may have missed
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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
Quiz! How many of the 18 players with multiple Champions League hat-tricks can you name?
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Football quiz These elite goalscorers have bagged at least two trebles in Europe’s premier club competition – so let's see if you can name them all
FourFourTwo’s 50 Best Football Managers in the World 2017: 25 to 21
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FFT 50 Managers The Italian who saves butts (twice) and one of the most exciting coaches in the world, tasked with cracking a problem for Lionel Messi
Cohen Bramall: "I'd never seen a mannequin in my life until I got to Arsenal"
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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
Quiz! Can you name the 20 most recent England captains?
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Football quiz From the man who pulled on the armband 59 times to the chaps who’ve had the honour just once – these are the last 20 players to skipper the Three Lions
Quiz! Can you name the top 50 goalscorers in Champions League knockout games?
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Football quiz Every player with six or more Champions League knockout matches goals since the start of the 1992/93 season
Quiz! Can you name the top 25 Premier League scorers from countries that have NEVER appeared at a World Cup?
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Football quiz These players hail from the minnow nations of world football, yet that hasn’t stopped them making their mark on the Premier League…
Quiz! Can you name the 50 current Premier League players with the highest foul count?
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Football quiz Filth! From two-footed scythes to a cheeky tactical, these are the players who’ve racked up the highest foul counts in the Prem – including the current leader on 573 offences
Quiz! Can you name every player to win the Premier League title while on loan?
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Football quiz Only nine times has a loanee claimed a Premier League crown – so can you recall those brilliant borrowed players in our fiendishly difficult quiz?
Quiz! Can you name the top 21 scorers from the 2006/07 Premier League season?
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Football quiz The empire strikes back as Man United claim the league title, but a Chelsea player tops the scoring charts. How many players who hit 10+ league goals in 06/07 can you recall?
Quiz! Can you name the top 17 scorers from the 2005/06 Premier League season?
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Football quiz Chelsea dominated and a dodgy lasagna did in Spurs, but can you recall every player healthy enough to have netted 10+ goals in the 05/06 Premier League?
Harry Winks dislikes snakes, Arsenal fan Piers Morgan – and the thought of being buried alive
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In Other News... “Is that a bit too intense for FourFourTwo?” asks the cheeky Tottenham star as he takes our quickfire Q&A
Quiz! How many of the 30 most successful Champions League managers can you name?
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Football quiz We're looking for the glory-hunting gaffers with the most Champions League wins since 1992/93
Quiz! Name these 20 players by their famous goal celebrations
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Football quiz From back-flips to gyrating hips: can you name the 20 footballers lauding their own post-goal brilliance?
The greatest all-time Premier League XI based on games played
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Premier League As James Milner passes the 500-appearance mark, we look at the Premier League XI based on the mighty warhorses who kept showing up