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October 2016

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October 31
- FourFourTwo’s tactical review: Giroud vs Januzaj, blunted Spurs, Klopp’s aerial kings
- Analysed: The impressive evolution of Victor Moses – more than just a working part for Chelsea
- Best of the Premier League weekend: FFT's top team, player... and moan
October 30
- Relax, Spurs fans: Vincent Janssen has already got this far being a slow starter
October 29
- Why Firmino and Coutinho can help Liverpool challenge for Premier League title
- Arsenal show newfound tactical flexibility and ruthlessness
October 28
- What Tottenham could learn from Chelsea's Plan A
- FIFA 17's best players
- The 10 strongest players in FIFA 17
- Quiz! How many of the 30 highest point-scoring managers in Premier League history can you name?
- Tottenham vs Leicester tactical preview: Why switching Son could solve Spurs' problems
- Milan '88: The inside story of Sacchi's all-conquering kings, as told by them
- In defence: Why snobbish sneering of the Premier League's deficiencies is misplaced
October 27
- Football Manager 2017: Starting transfer and wage budgets in La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1
- Who to start with on Football Manager 2017? EVERY English league team's starting transfer and wage budget
October 26
- Losing the dressing room: empty cliché or a real-life phenomenon?
- England’s elite demonstrating true value of collectivism over stars – all except Mourinho
October 25
- FourFourTwo’s 50 Best Football Teams Ever: 40-31
- 10 crazy football boots that should have never left the design room
- Great Goals Retold: Carlos Alberto vs Italy, 1970
- Al-Hasawi ready to sell Forest, as long as he keeps name and ground
- Video: 8 essential tips for visiting the Emirates Stadium on a matchday
- FourFourTwo’s 50 Best Football Teams Ever: 50-41
October 24
- Tactical review: How Conte embarrassed Jose; Arsenal denied by Boro; Spurs' stalemate
- Jose Mourinho claims credit for humiliating himself
- 10 of football’s funniest technology fails (and the odd win)
- Gary Lineker now official opposition
- Best of the Premier League weekend: FFT's top player, performance – and moan
October 22
- Why Toby Alderweireld is Tottenham's most important player - and his absence proves it
October 21
- Chelsea showing signs of youth change under Conte – but is this the real thing?
- UEFA refusing to rule out holding Champions League final in US, on Moon
- Chelsea vs Man United tactical preview: Blues' big threat could be Jose's big nightmare
- 10 diamonds in struggling sides – and who they might suit in the Premier League
- Predict scores, beat FFT, win £10,000 a week
- 7 Football League starlets coming to Premier League grounds near you soon
October 20
- Costa vs Drogba: Who's the better Chelsea striker? FFT's writers argue
- Analysed: Why Pep got it right despite his Barcelona bashing
- How Alexis's redeployment has given Arsenal's attack a new dimension
- Van Persie out with points to prove amid his Fenerbahce frustrations – but not from his usual position
October 19
- Remembered! ClubCall: the pre-internet hub of transfers, rumours and rants
- Kieran Tierney: Why Celtic's fearless young full-back is a wanted lad Europe-wide
- What's it like to train with England? Behind the scenes at St George's Park
- The 20 most powerful agents in football
- Hamann and Heskey on Klopp, Sturridge and Liverpool's ambitions
- Meet Andre Silva: Portugal’s long-awaited striking hope who’s interesting Arsenal and Atletico Madrid
October 18
- Jamie Vardy may be struggling, but let’s cut the work ethic nonsense
- Wiki Geeks: Meet the men keeping football's Wikipedia pages up to date
- Moise Kean: Juve’s 16-year-old star and the Champions League’s first Year 2000 player
- Liverpool and Man United called back to film additional scenes for highlights
- 7 must-read FIFA 17 tips and tricks – directly from the developers at EA Sports
- Analysed: Why Daniel Sturridge may never work in Jurgen Klopp's system
October 17
- Dissected: Road king Rooney's away-goal haul
- FourFourTwo's tactical review: Walcott’s dual role, Conte nails 3-4-3, Pep finds pleasure
- Video: Victor Wanyama reveals which Spurs team-mate he'd let arrange his birthday party
- Best of the Premier League weekend: FFT's top performance, goal and moan
October 15
- How Vincent Janssen has prompted Pochettino’s Plan B
- Chelsea 3-0 Leicester: How Conte's 3-4-3 fits the Blues to a tee
- Why Man United vs Liverpool isn't even England's second-biggest game anymore
October 14
- Who is the WORST pundit in the country? You decide...
- 19 tips for making it big time in New Star Soccer
- Conte and axe-wielding Abramovich laugh off Chelsea axe reports
- Liverpool vs Man United tactical preview: Set-pieces could settle it for Jose
- Out-predict FFT and win £10,000 a week
- Quiz! Can you name the only players from their country in the 2016/17 Premier League?
- How the title chasers' central midfielders work – and why Fellaini doesn't
- How Jordan Henderson shrugged off Stevie G's ghost to become his own man at Liverpool
October 13
- Revealed! How English is every Premier League club? Top-flight nationalities examined
- Interview, Giuliano Maiorana: “Fergie used to belittle me in front of people – then let me rot in the reserves”
- 6 Serie A starlets to spy on in 2016/17 (ft. Simeone Jr. and Italy's latest strike hope)
- Zico vs Materazzi: India’s ding-dong rivalry featuring arrest, match-fixing calls and one giant fine
October 12
- Derby players completely unaware McClaren ever left
- Football Manager 2017: 7 new features we want to see in the new game
- Video: Arsenal's Petr Cech explains what it's like to make a howler in a game
- Meet Ligue 1's 10 most exciting youngsters being primed for big moves
October 11
- POLL 75% of England fans back Rooney benching
- Video: Arsenal's Alex Iwobi reveals who stops training with their ridiculous skills
- Is Wayne Rooney past his peak? 5 players who adapted their game and regained their form
- Updated: FIFA 17 review – it's the beautiful game but lacking something on the pitch
- 10 La Liga stars on the verge of special things in 2016/17
October 10
- Who is Chelsea's top youth prospect?
- Video: Alex Iwobi reveals who he thinks is next to follow him from Arsenal’s U23 side
- Quiz! Can you name these forgotten England stars?
- Gareth Southgate: "I get called Gary, and Darren - I’ve even been called Neville Southall"
- 9 Bundesliga kids who you'll soon know about in 2016/17
October 8
- Interview: Steve Coppell on India, Tendulkar and the future of English coaching
October 7
- YOU decide: Who is the best under-21 wonderkid in the world?
- 19 teenagers you won't be able to ignore over the next year
- FourFourTwo's 59 Best Under-21 Wonderkids in the World: 10-1
- Leigh Roose: The 'reckless', controversial war hero who kept goal for Arsenal
October 6
- FourFourTwo's 59 Best Under-21 Wonderkids in the World
- Franck Kessie: The Arsenal-scouted Ivorian who dreams of Manchester United
- FourFourTwo's 59 Best Under-21 Wonderkids in the World: 20-11
- 13 contenders to be the Premier League's first Year 2000 player
- Barton charged for repeatedly betting that matches would be interrupted by two men in horse costume
- What if football personalities did The Apprentice? FourFourTwo imagines…
October 5
- Bob Bradley trying to teach Swansea to play soccer, bemused players report
- FourFourTwo's 59 Best Under-21 Wonderkids in the World: 30-21
- Who is Manchester United's top youth prospect?
- FourFourTwo's 59 Best Under-21 Wonderkids in the World: 40-31
- Bob Bradley's Swansea appointment also has U.S. football self-reflecting
October 4
- FourFourTwo's 59 Best Under-21 Wonderkids in the World: 50-41
- In the mag: The making of Zlatan! Your football bucket list! Spurs' new hero interviewed!
- Bob Bradley and British football’s distasteful distrust of American managers
- FourFourTwo's 59 Best Under-21 Wonderkids in the World: 59-51
October 3
- Giggs widens job search to include Aston Villa, data entry positions
- Report: Manchester United fans bitterly divided over away tickets
- FourFourTwo’s tactical review: Conte’s back three, Spurs’ supremacy, Pogba’s freedom
- Stats Zone’s weekend winners and losers: Which star created the most? Who dribbled like a dream?
- Best of the Premier League weekend: FourFourTwo's top team, player and moan
October 2
- 4 notes from Man United 1-1 Stoke (including two big plus points for Jose)
- Why Christian Eriksen is Tottenham's most underrated star
October 1
- 4 tactical observations (using Stats Zone) from Hull City 0-2 Chelsea
- 4 Stats Zone notes from Swansea vs Liverpool: set-piece woe, passing networks and more
- Premier League LIVE, October 1
- 11 of the funniest Arsene Wenger GIFs: Rice love, scraps... and the doomed coat