
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! Name all 86 players to win the Premier League with Manchester United
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Manchester United's 13 Premier League title wins have meant medals for 86 different players. How many can you name?

Quiz! Name the 30 footballers from Asia to have played in the Premier League
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz A grand total of 30 players from China, Iran, Japan, Oman, Pakistan and South Korea have played in the Premier League. Name them...

Quiz! Can you name every Premier League club's top three scorers in 2016/17?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Just who are the most prolific players for each Premier League side this season?

Quiz! How many of the 42 Champions League all-time top scorers can you name?
By Alex Reid published
UEFA Champions League Since 1992, 42 players have scored 20 or more Champions League goals. Can you name them?

Iconic shirts: who is Manchester United's greatest ever No.10?
By Alex Reid published
Manchester United From a teenage sensation to a returning hero: in our series looking at some of world football's most iconic jerseys, we explore the famous players to have worn the Manchester United No.10 shirt

Quiz! Can you name all 19 British clubs to appear in a major European final?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz From the first in 1963 to the most recent in 2017, can you name every British side to take part in the final of one of Europe’s premier club competitions?

Quiz! Can you name the 50 club sides that Harry Kane has scored against?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz The Tottenham striker has struck a whopping 150 club goals in his career to date. Do you know who those strikes have come against?

Quiz! Name the top five Champions League appearance-makers AND goalscorers among this season's quarter-finalists
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz The most experienced – and prolific – players for each side left in the 2017/18 Champions League. How many can you name?

Quiz! Can you name the line-ups from England vs Italy in the Euro 2012 quarter-finals?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz The Three Lions and the Azzurri played out a thrilling* 0-0 draw before England inevitably exited on penalties – but can you name the players who graced the white and the blue shirts?

Quiz! Can you name the top active goalscorer for these 40 international sides?
By Alex Reid last updated
Football quiz As a Welsh powerhouse becomes his country's all-time leading scorer with a hat-trick, let’s test your knowledge of current international top scorers

Quiz! Can you name the 20 most recent England captains?
By Alex Reid last updated
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

Harry Winks dislikes snakes, Arsenal fan Piers Morgan – and the thought of being buried alive
By Alex Reid published
In Other News... “Is that a bit too intense for FourFourTwo?” asks the cheeky Tottenham star as he takes our quickfire Q&A

Quiz! Can you name the top 25 Premier League scorers from countries that have NEVER appeared at a World Cup?
By Alex Reid published
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 all 47 clubs that played in the Premier League after Arsene Wenger took over at Arsenal?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Our rapid-fire quiz tests you on every club to have featured in England’s top flight during the Frenchman’s epic, 22-year reign

18 things you’ve already probably forgotten about football in 2018
By Alex Reid published
Lists France won the World Cup, Cristiano Ronaldo left Real Madrid – but what about the other notable events which are already past recalling?

Quiz! Can you name Liverpool’s 50 highest Premier League appearance-makers after 1,000 games?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz From the two players who’ve broken the 500-game barrier to Brazilians, Germans, Spaniards and even an Australian – these are the players that define the Prem era for the Reds

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?
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