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

Xisco Muñoz interview: "Winning promotion to the Premier League with Watford was the best thing football could have given me"
By Andrew Murray published
Watford manager Xisco Muñoz led the Hornets back up after glory at Dinamo Tbilisi – just don’t expect a duet with Elton John, as he tells FourFourTwo in an exclusive chat...

Cristiano Ronaldo vs Kylian Mbappe: who was better at the same age?
By Andrew Murray published
Cristiano Ronaldo is back where it all began - but how good was he back then? FourFourTwo runs the numbers to find out who was better between him and Mbappe at the same age

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

18 of football's most embarrassing predictions ever
By Andrew Murray published
Eating rats, doubting Lionel Messi and Mark Lawrenson losing face – these big calls went badly wrong...

Liverpool FourFourTwo preview and prediction: How can Jurgen Klopp & Co rediscover their mojo?
By Andrew Murray published
Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool suffered from injuries, a lack of Anfield crowd and an inexplicable loss of form last season. Twelve months on from ending that 30-year title wait, can the Reds rise again this season? Virgil van Dijk is back, after all...

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

Croatia 3-1 Scotland: Euro 2020 player ratings
By Andrew Murray, Conor Pope published
FourFourTwo rates every player from Scotland's 3-1 Euro 2020 defeat to Croatia

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...

Tottenham's (seemingly endless) search for a new manager – a timeline of the coaches linked
By Andrew Murray published
Tottenham have been on the hunt for a new manager since April 19. FFT looks back at the main candidates from Daniel Levy's two months of speed dating

Italy vs Wales as it happened! Follow all the Euro 2020 group stage action
By Andrew Murray last updated
Italy beat Wales 1-0 to top Group A, but Robert Page's men still finished runners-up as the Azzurri extend their unbeaten run to 30 games...

Turkey vs Wales as it happened! All the Euro 2020 group stage action as it happened
By Andrew Murray last updated
Wales beat Turkey 2-0 thanks to an inspired Gareth Bale and Dan James in a baking Baku to go within touching distance of the last 16

Tottenham Hotspur: What if Gareth Bale and Dele Alli were good, after all?
By Andrew Murray last updated
Andy Murray ponders whether Jose Mourinho’s forgotten pair are doing it their way, without their manager’s help…

Deportivo La Coruna in crisis: why the 2004 Champions League semi-finalists are at risk of relegation to Spain's fifth tier
By Andrew Murray last updated
In 2000, Deportivo became Spanish champions – now, they’re languishing in the third tier for the first time since 1981. How on Earth did things get so bad? FFT goes in search of answers

Why do footballers have to come to England to be appreciated?
By Andrew Murray published
Edinson Cavani is merely the latest in a long line of outstanding talents to fall victim of Britain's insular footballing opinions

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

Liverpool's Premier League winners: The best right-back in the world? How Trent Alexander-Arnold is reinventing the full-back
By Andrew Murray published
CHAMPIONS At just 21, Liverpool's homegrown wonderkid is part of a tactical revolution. FourFourTwo asked experts how he's doing it

Why Premier League fans are wrongly losing their minds about VAR – and 5 more things we've learned about new rule changes
By Andrew Murray published
Premier League We’re only two weeks in, but we’ve already had tiresome debate, fan opprobrium and wild conspiracy thinking. Andrew Murray wonders whether the criticism of VAR is missing the point

Jadon Sancho: Where next for England’s once-in-a-generation star?
By Andrew Murray published
Jadon Sancho Manchester United? Real Madrid? Bayern Munich? When Andrew Murray had an extended sit down with Borussia Dortmund’s young superstar, what he found was a player who knows how good life is in Germany

13 of football's most embarrassing excuses
By Andrew Murray published
Lists Crystal Palace goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey has tried to defend his strange salute during a team meal, but who's buying it? Andrew Murray looks back at football's other poor excuses for excuses

Footballers on Desert Island Discs: a classic history of bangers, books and luxury items
By Andrew Murray published
FourFourTwo The eight recordings, book and luxury item with which castaways have been permitted have been a BBC radio staple for eight decades – but what have various members of the football world chosen to take onto a desert island?

How do you follow greatness? The glorious successes – and crushing failures – of 15 men who came next
By Andrew Murray published
FourFourTwo After Zinedine Zidane resigned from Real Madrid having won three Champions Leagues in under three full seasons, his successor has almighty shoes to fill. As these examples show, it can be done - or it can go very wrong indeed
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