The big interview: Henrik Larsson – "I got letters from parents, upset that their kids were running around with their tongues out"

Henrik Larsson

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Samuel Lawrence-Joshua, London

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Chris Flanagan
Senior Staff Writer

Chris joined FourFourTwo in 2015 and has reported from more than 20 countries, in places as varied as Ivory Coast and the Arctic Circle. He's interviewed Pele, Zlatan and Santa Claus (it's a long story), as well as covering the World Cup, AFCON and the Clasico. He previously spent 10 years as a newspaper journalist, and completed the 92 in 2017.