FourFourTwo's Weekend Crossword 61: Wonderkids, wondergoals and one-nils

Weekend Crossword, anyone?

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If you're new to FourFourTwo Weekend Crossword, we're just glad to have you along: it's just like a regular newspaper puzzle, except you don't get the ink on your hands and you can put down your first answer without fear of having to tippex it out.

So let's get filling this grid in, shall we? No time limit as ever, and we'd love to know how you did in the comment section…

Love football crosswords? Here are some handpicked football quizzes we know you'll love

Mastering the nuances of a crossword proves you’ve got the tactical awareness of a veteran skipper. To keep your mental fitness at an elite level, however, we've drawn up a scouting report of quizzes that move from the historic rungs of the English pyramid to the clinical finishers who have lit up the modern era, courtesy of Kwizly. Ready?

First, we want you to honour the long road to the summit by naming every club to have ever won the English second tier, a task that spans from the early days of the Football League to the high-stakes Championship of today. Once you’ve mapped the champions, test your internal GPS and see if you can name every Premier League ground ever.

If your expertise is more about the elite output of the last decade or the heartbreak of continental competition, we have two high-intensity hurdles waiting in the tunnel. You can prove your memory for goalscoring streaks is top-tier by naming every player who has scored a Premier League hat-trick in the last 10 years, or pivot to the tactical nightmares of the past by naming every club to have knocked an English team out of Europe. From the most recent match-ball winners to the overseas giants who proved a bridge too far, it’s time to see if your footballing IQ remains world-class under the brightest lights.

To decompress after that heavy statistical lifting, see if you can find the hidden icons in FourFourTwo's Brazilian footballers wordsearch or hunt down the names in our Big Premier League wordsearch. To ensure you’re always the first to the team news, join our newsletter for your daily afternoon briefing of curated trivia. To truly cement your legacy, join The Club, our free membership portal for unlocking secret hints for those impossible-to-finish quizzes, our prestigious leaderboards, and debate in our comments sections.

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For more than a decade, Joe Mewis has worked in football journalism as a reporter and editor. Mewis has had stints at Mirror Football and LeedsLive among others and worked at FourFourTwo throughout Euro 2024, reporting on the tournament. In addition to his journalist work, Mewis is also the author of four football history books that include times on Leeds United and the England national team. Now working as a digital marketing coordinator at Harrogate Town, too, Mewis counts some of his best career moments as being in the iconic Spygate press conference under Marcelo Bielsa and seeing his beloved Leeds lift the Championship trophy during lockdown.