Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray is a freelance journalist, who regularly contributes to both the FourFourTwo magazine and website. Formerly a senior staff writer at FFT and a fluent Spanish speaker, he has interviewed major names such as Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah, Sergio Aguero and Xavi. He was also named PPA New Consumer Journalist of the Year 2015.
Latest articles by Andrew Murray

Atletico Madrid, the Champions League's toughest team to beat? Meet Manchester United's biggest problem: Diego Simeone
By Andrew Murray published
Atlético Madrid The Argentine has performed miracles during his nine years at the helm, taking Atletico from 13th in La Liga to title winners and European trophies – now he bids for Champions League glory

What happened to Barcelona and Real Madrid? How they lost Messi and Ronaldo – and slipped from the world's summit
By Andrew Murray published
LONGREAD Barcelona play Europa League football tonight for the first time in over a decade, as both they and rivals Real Madrid are finally having to contend with years of overspending. This is how Spanish football started to struggle

How the 2000s saved El Clasico – and made Barcelona vs Real Madrid bigger than ever before
By Andrew Murray published
El Clasico Barcelona and Real Madrid despise one another - but it took a symbiotic relationship in the noughties to make their rivalry the biggest in world football. Ahead of Sunday's Clasico, FFT delves into the blossoming of a bitter romance

The best Premier League XI never to play Champions League football
By Andrew Murray published
UEFA Champions League A trio of players each with 100+ Premier League goals, plus the league's most enduring goalkeeper. How did this lot never play in the Champions League? Andrew Murray explains

Year Zero: How Cristiano Ronaldo's 2006/07 Manchester United season turned him into the player we know
By Andrew Murray published
Year Zero Cristiano Ronaldo was born in Portugal and soared in Spain: but really, he was made in Manchester. This is the story of how he turned around a rocky reputation and strapped a rocket launcher to his career

Netherlands 0-2 Czech Republic: Holes and Schik make Dutch pay for De Ligt red card
By Andrew Murray published
Euro 2020 The Czech Republic beat 10-man Netherlands 2-0 with a display of ruthless counter-attacking after Matthijs de Ligt was sent off for handball

Euro 2020: Player ratings from Netherlands 0-2 Czech Republic
By Andrew Murray, Ed McCambridge published
Euro 2020 The Czech Republic knock out the Netherlands with Tomas Holes the hero and Matthijs de Ligt the red-carded Dutch villain

Luka Modric masterclass sees Croatia beat Scotland 3-1 and reach the Euro 2020 last 16
By Andrew Murray published
Euro 2020 Croatia beat Scotland 3-1 thanks to a Luka Modric goal and assist, knocking out Steve Clarke's side in the group stage

Watch Euro 2020: Croatia take lead over Scotland through Nikola Vlasic goal
By Andrew Murray published
Euro 2020 Watch Croatia go 1-0 up after Nikola Vlasic's fine finish after 17 minutes

England's possible line-ups against Czech Republic: FFT writers pick who they'd start in Euro 2020 Group D decider
By Andrew Murray, Conor Pope, Mark White, Ed McCambridge, Ryan Dabbs published
Euro 2020 England vs Czech Republic will decide who wins Euro 2020 Group D, but does either side actually want to? Our writers select who they would start...

How the Premier League breakaway happened: The first season of 1992/93, as told by its heroes
By Andrew Murray published
Premier League In 1992, a group broke away from Division 1 to form a brand new league with an exciting revenue model. Sound familiar? Andrew Murray remembers the first-ever Premier League season

FourFourTwo's 100 Greatest Footballers EVER: No.1, Diego Maradona
By Andrew Murray published
FFT 100 Greatest Diego Maradona has died, aged 60. The force of his exceptional talent and willpower bent the football world to his reality to such at extent that in 2017, we ranked him the greatest to ever play the game
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