Alex Reid
Alex Reid is a freelance journalist and the former digital features editor at FourFourTwo. He has also written for the Guardian, talkSPORT, Boxing News and Sport magazine. Like most Londoners, he is a lifelong supporter of Aberdeen FC. He is deceptively bad in the air for a big man. He has never been a cage fighter.
Latest articles by Alex Reid
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Ranked! The 11 best managers never to win the Champions League
By Alex Reid published
UEFA Champions League From Italian maestros to French pioneers, these are the great gaffers who've never managed to add The Big One to their CVs. Yet...
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Quiz! Can you name the 40 highest French goalscorers in Premier League history?
By Alex Reid published
Quiz Eric Cantona may have been one of the first from Le France – but plenty have followed him across the channel since…
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Robert Lewandowski robbed? Here are the 12 best players never to win the Ballon d’Or
By Alex Reid published
Ballon d'Or Robert Lewandowski scored 48 goals in a season and still didn't win the Ballon d'Or - don't worry Bobby, you're in good company...
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Ranked! Liverpool’s 6 greatest victories over Manchester United
By Alex Reid last updated
Cup final triumphs and Dirk Kuyt hat-tricks - its Liverpool's most memorable north-west derby wins of the last 20 years
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Ranked! Manchester United’s 6 most glorious wins over Liverpool
By Alex Reid last updated
Manchester United Ferdinand, Forlan and Solskjaer in Fergie time – it’s Manchester United's most fiendish north-west derby triumphs
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Every current Premier League club’s greatest EVER win in the competition
By Alex Reid published
Premier League The modern victories that have meant the most to the top flight’s current 20 teams, from incredible fightbacks to title-deciding triumphs
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Ansu Fati becomes youngest Champions League goalscorer – but what happened to the others?
By Alex Reid published
UEFA Champions League Barcelona's prodigy has done it, aged 17 years, one month and 10 days. These teenagers all netted goals in Europe’s top club competition post-1992, but how they did fare after?
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Paulo Ferreira: In 2012, I was worried we were getting too old to win Champions League with Chelsea
By Alex Reid published
FourFourTwo Films The Portuguese defender arrived at the club with Jose Mourinho in 2004 and experienced Chelsea just miss out in Europe's premier competition again and again. Then, just when he thought the chance had passed...
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Summer transfer rumours: the 10 big moves to watch
By Alex Reid published
Premier League We’re into the final week of the transfer window: is there still time for these major moves to play out before deadline day?
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Quiz! Can you name the top 27 scorers from the 1999/2000 Premier League season?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz One hero hit 30 goals for Sunderland as the Premier League crossed the millennium. But can you name all of the players who reached double figures for the 1999/2000 season?
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Frank Lampard reveals goalkeeper he’d hate to come up against: John Terry!
By Alex Reid published
Chelsea Terry had a secret love of going in goal, Chelsea’s all-time record scorer tells FourFourTwo – while also revealing the most “outstanding” footballer he ever played with
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England 0-1 Belgium: 5 big talking points from Kaliningrad
By Alex Reid last updated
FIFA World Cup England finish runners-up in Group G and will face Colombia in the last 16, after a second-string Three Lions lost thanks to Adnan Januzaj's wonderstrike
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Quiz! Can you name the 18 Premier League referees to officiate a match this season?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Boo! It’s the boys in black – or pink/green – charged with keeping the Prem peace. Surely you know these woebegone chaps…
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Quiz! Can you name the 50 all-time Premier League appearance-makers?
By Alex Reid last updated
Football quiz As a left-footed stalwart joins a jinking left-winger atop the Prem appearance table, we ask you to name the 50 players who've racked up the most games
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Quiz! Can you name all 36 goalscorers from the last 20 years of FA Cup finals?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz The goalscorers and match-winners from the last two decades of the world’s oldest cup competition
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Quiz! Can you name all 37 England one-cap wonders of the last 20 years?
By Alex Reid last updated
Football quiz It's every English boy’s dream to some day play for their national team, and some go on to make it a reality – even if it's only for one day
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Ranked! The 50 most hated people in football
By Alex Reid last updated
Lists Scumbag owners, filthy players, dire pundits – join FourFourTwo in our countdown of the most reviled individuals in the game
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Quiz! Name the 63 players to appear in every game for their club in the 2017/18 Premier League season
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz It’s the Christmas ever-presents - can you name the lads who’ve played a part in 18 out of 18 matches as we head into the festive period?
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World Cup, day nine: the things you might have missed
By Alex Reid published
FIFA World Cup Brazil leave it late to beat Costa Rica, Ahmed Musa stars in Nigeria's 2-0 over Iceland and Switzerland come from behind to beat Serbia 2-1
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Quiz! Name the 40 players who've committed the most fouls in the Premier League this season
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz It’s the Prem’s dirtiest players of 2017/18 – at least according to those whistle-happy refs. Time to name and shame!
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Quiz! Can you name all 40 teams to appear in a European Cup or Champions League final?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Every club to have taken part in the grand final of European club football’s biggest game, hailing from 13 different domestic leagues. Time to name the lot…
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Quiz! Can you name the all-time Premier League record appearance-makers for these 80 countries?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz From Australia to Zimbabwe – via France, Germany and even Belarus – these globetrotting stars have played in more Premier League than any of their countrymen
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Quiz! Can you name the 29 Premier League players to register a goal AND an assist in 2018/19?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz We’re five games into the new season and these players have hit the ground running by both scoring and laying on an assist for a team-mate