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FIFA Club World Cup 2025: Dates, fixtures, stadiums, tickets and everything you need to know
CLUB WORLD CUP A new, expanded Club World Cup is set to debut in the summer of 2025
‘A striker getting the most red cards is no good, I don’t see myself as that person. Some of my reds were ridiculous. One was for singing to a referee!’ Duncan Ferguson feels he doesn’t deserve the Premier League record for most red cards
EXCLUSIVE One of Ferguson’s eight reds in the Premier League is particularly unusual…
'For me to leave, it must be something great for the club, not for me' Bruno Guimaraes admits Pep Guardiola contact but confirms his happiness at Newcastle United and explains why he loves the club so much
EXCLUSIVE Manchester City clearly need midfield reinforcements, but they will have to look beyond Newcastle’s captain
‘I wish it hadn’t happened, but I don’t think I deserved to go to prison. I got looked after, but that won’t stop somebody throwing a bucket of s**te at you’ Duncan Ferguson tells FourFourTwo about the horrors of Glasgow’s notorious Barlinnie Prison
EXCLUSIVE The striker served 44 days in prison in 1995 for an on-field headbutt that took place a year earlier
'If this doesn’t happen today, I’m not sure when and if I’ll be able to achieve this title with Newcastle – I’m 27 and I don’t know if I’ll have another shot at this' Bruno Guimaraes shares his mindset before the Carabao Cup Final
EXCLUSIVE Newcastle’s captain burned the midnight old on the eve of the cup final, but it didn’t prevent him from writing his name in the history books
'I have no doubt that we beat Liverpool because of him' Bruno Guimaraes believes Newcastle United were able to end their trophy drought because of ONE person
EXCLUSIVE The Brazilian has given full credit to Newcastle United’s manager for the club’s win over Liverpool at Wembley in March
When is the FA Cup semi-final draw and what are the ball numbers?
Everything you need to know about the next round of the FA Cup
Liverpool report: Trent Alexander-Arnold to Real Madrid 'confirmed' with contract revealed
Liverpool star Trent Alexander-Arnold will move to Real Madrid this summer on a bumper contract
'It was very emotional two years ago, not just for the players but for the whole city. This time I feel as though we believe that we should be doing that on a regular basis' Dan Burn is ready to crown an England call-up with a trophy for Newcastle United
Dan Burn explains why Newcastle's mentality is different to the team that lost the Carabao Cup final two years ago
Newcastle United home kit for 2025/26: Everything we know so far
Here's everything we know about the Newcastle United home kit for 2025/26
'I've had a few' Rod Stewart's pitchside interview on CBS with Peter Schmeichel, Kate Scott, Thierry Henry, Jamie Carragher and Micah 'big knees' Richards was a breath of fresh air and proves the US audience are having more fun than us in the UK
A wonderfully chaotic pre-match interview with Rod Stewart underlines how much more heart and soul the US Champions League coverage has
‘Brian Clough locked me in his office for three hours, gave my new wife flowers and chocolates, and told me I wasn’t leaving until I signed for Nottingham Forest’ Martin Keown discusses the grilling he got from Old Big ‘Ead’
EXCLUSIVE The former Arsenal and England defender recounts an audience with Brian Clough in detail to FourFourTwo
Cristiano Ronaldo’s former fitness coach reveals the secret behind his longevity and explains why you should never partner with him in table tennis
EXCLUSIVE CR-7 turned 40 today, and it doesn’t look like he has any plans to hang up his boots just yet
Ranked! The 100 best football players of all time
RANKED! The 100 best football players who have ever lived: from Messi to Maradona, Cristiano to Cruyff and everyone in between
Newcastle United closing in on £1.2billion stadium plan that will 'supercharge' Premier League title dream
Newcastle United have been exploring whether to develop St James' Park or build a new stadium
The Premier League club with 174 pubs within a one-mile radius of its stadium
One club is in a league of its own when it comes to the volume of pubs that surround their home ground
‘I was 19 getting annoyed with Charlie Nicholas for changing into leather trousers on the team bus home – I should have been wondering where I could get a pair of leather trousers from!’ Martin Keown on standing up to Arsenal’s famous drinking culture
Fatherly advice kept Martin Keown from off-the-field distractions that became famous at Arsenal in the 80s and 90s
‘Bryan Robson took us to Florida to unwind before 2005’s Great Escape, then results changed’ to this day Robert Earnshaw admits he has no idea how West Brom avoided relegation 20 years ago having been bottom at Christmas
No team in Premier League history had ever been bottom at Christmas and stayed up until West Brom managed it
I interviewed Trent Alexander-Arnold last year and he may have inadvertently revealed that his future lies away from Liverpool
OPINION I asked the right back a direct question about his future in January 2024 and the response is telling 12 months on
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‘Graeme Souness used to line us up vs the English lads at training. We had a proper scrap one day’ Ally McCoist recalls the legendary England vs Scotland training games at Rangers
There were so many English players at the club in the 80s that it was possible to play the nations off against each other, with one always coming out on top
‘After training Alan Hansen was having coffee and I said “I’ll have the same” then just as Jock Stein walked in Kenny Dalglish put a pint of lager in front of me’ Ally McCoist discusses the perils of being a young Scottish international in the 1980s
Debutant Scotland players needed their wits about them in the 1980s, especially with people like Kenny Dalglish about
Vote for the Hero of the Year! The FourFourTwo Alternative Awards of the Year 2024
It's the big one: Hero of the Year in the FourFourTwo Alternative Awards of the Year
