Gary Parkinson
Gary Parkinson is a freelance writer, editor, trainer, muso, singer, actor and coach. He spent 14 years at FourFourTwo as the Global Digital Editor and continues to regularly contribute to the magazine and website, including major features on Euro 96, Subbuteo, Robert Maxwell and the inside story of Liverpool's 1990 title win. He is also a Bolton Wanderers fan.
Latest articles by Gary Parkinson

Predict scores, beat FFT, win £10,000 a week
By Gary Parkinson published
Gaming Think you know football? Fancy a few quid?

Dissected: Road king Rooney's away-goal haul
By Gary Parkinson published
Infographics Analysis of a legend as Wayne Rooney closes in on a Premier League record…

Out-predict FFT and win £10,000 a week
By Gary Parkinson published
Gaming Simple really: predict Premier League scores, embarrass us, win up to £10,000 a week

Revealed! How English is every Premier League club? Top-flight nationalities examined
By Gary Parkinson published
Infographics Our analysis of Premier League squads reveals intriguing findings

Predict Premier scores, beat FourFourTwo, win £10,000
By Gary Parkinson published
Gaming Think you can predict the Premier League better than FourFourTwo? Prove it...

Allardyce assassinated by England's attitude to class and cash
By Gary Parkinson published
Sam Allardyce Sam Allardyce is no longer England manager. FourFourTwo's Global Digital Editor Gary Parkinson, who has interviewed Allardyce on more than a dozen occasions, has an idea why

Vote! Who's the best-ever overseas Premier League manager?
By Gary Parkinson published
FFT Foreign 50 Who's the finest foreign gaffer?

Interactive: Who's the worst-ever overseas Premier League manager?
By Gary Parkinson published
FFT Foreign 50 Many have come, many have failed. Which one sucked hardest?

Mel, Magath, Manuel and some Dutchmen: The Prem's fourth wave of foreign managers
By Gary Parkinson published
Paolo Di Canio With Arsene Wenger celebrating 20 years as Arsenal manager on Thursday, FFT has decided to honour every foreign boss to grace (and often not) top-class football in England – all 50 of 'em. Here's the fourth set of imports...

Interactive: The countries the 50 Foreign Managers came from
By Gary Parkinson published
Infographics A total of 50 foreigners have managed in English top-flight football. Here's whence they came...

Sven, Jose, Rafa and... Zajec?! The Prem's second wave of foreign managers remembered
By Gary Parkinson published
Premier League With Arsene Wenger poised to celebrate 20 years as Arsenal manager on Thursday, FFT has decided to honour every foreign boss to grace (and often not) top-class football in England – all 50 of 'em. Here's the second batch of imports...

Premier League LIVE, Sat 10 Sep: From Manchester derby to Liverpool-Leicester via the 3pms
By Gary Parkinson published
Premier League Analysing the action from Manchester United vs Manchester City, Arsenal vs Southampton, Bournemouth vs West Brom, Burnley vs Hull, Middlesbrough vs Crystal Palace, Stoke vs Tottenham, West Ham vs Watford and Liverpool vs Leicester

Who owns England's future? Young Lions call-ups analysed by club
By Gary Parkinson published
Infographics YouthHawk analysis of the 135 players called up by England from U21 to U16. It's not as simple as you think...

Which Premier League team has the best opening-day record?
By Gary Parkinson published
Infographics Analysis of past decade's openers reveals some surprisingly fast starters...

Which Premier League club's matches are on TV most often?
By Gary Parkinson published
Infographics The next batch of televised Premier League fixtures have been announced – but who's on the gogglebox most?

Which players should Roy Hodgson drop? FourFourTwo decides
By Gary Parkinson published
England They can't all fit on the plane, so we've given our advice for free. You're welcome, Roy...

China in your hand: Giggsy’s dreams shattered
By Gary Parkinson published
Ryan Giggs Step back in time with Gary Parkinson to the 1980s and a curly-haired teenage hopeful...

Stats Zone Games of the Season 2015/16: The statistical mind-benders
By Gary Parkinson published
Stats Zone Awards Find out which matches featured the most and fewest of our favourite numerical measure points...

FourFourTwo's 50 Biggest Derbies in the World, No.7: Liverpool vs Manchester United
By Gary Parkinson published
50 biggest derbies The titanic clash between the north-west's big two grabs a higher position than local battles with the noisy neighbours...

Revealed! The best- and worst-supported Premier League clubs
By Gary Parkinson published
Premier League The mathematics have been done and Villa fans, we're sorry, but you're bottom of another table...

Wonderkid to world-beater: George Best's first five seasons in photographs
By Gary Parkinson published
George Best From wet-eared wunderkind to Golden Boot-wearing champion of Europe...
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