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
Quiz! How many of FourFourTwo's 100 Best Players in the World from 2007 can you name?
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Football quiz As we count down the world’s best footballers in 2017, how many of our top 100 from a decade ago can you recall?
Quiz! Can you name the top 25 scorers from the 1997/98 Premier League season?
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Football quiz Arsene Wenger became the first non-British manager to win the title in England – but can you name the players from across the Premier League who hit 10+ goals in 97/98?
Quiz! How many of Tottenham’s 50 biggest ever transfers can you name?
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Football quiz Spurs tend to invest shrewdly (most of the time). But being a respectable Premier League club, they’ve still thrown a few millions about. Can you tell us who it's bought them?
FourFourTwo’s 50 Best Football Managers in the World 2017: 35 to 31
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FFT 50 Managers An an ice-cold tactician who warms the hearts of fans and a certain French manager who sharply divides opinion
Quiz! Can you name the 74 Premier League debutants so far in 2018/19?
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Football quiz Every club, barring Manchester City and Burnley, have fielded a Premier League newcomer this season – but how many can you name?
Quiz! Can you name all 53 World Cup winners to have played in the Premier League?
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Football quiz It’s every player to own a World Cup winner's medal and played a match in England’s top division since 1992/93. How many can you recall?
Revealed! If every Premier League club was a Game of Thrones character
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Premier League Hold the door: are we really doing this? Yes. This is why each team in the Premier League has an uncanny Game of Thrones parallel
Quiz! Can you name the line-ups from England 1-0 Spain in November 2011?
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Football quiz Just over seven years ago, Fabio Capello’s side scored a surprise triumph over World champions Spain at Wembley. These are the players who took to the pitch that day...
Peter Crouch earns a place in 2018 Guinness World Records
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In Other News... Stoke striker owns a spot alongside Cristiano Ronaldo, Christian Benteke and Alan Shearer in latest world records collection
Quiz! Can you name the 15 players who are the ONLY footballers from their country to score in the Premier League?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz As a Liverpool defender becomes the first ever Estonian to score in the Prem, let's test you on the league’s one-nation wonders
Ranked! Every Premier League manager by how long they'd survive in Game of Thrones
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Funny We couldn’t let the final season begin without assessing the time each Prem boss would last in this vicious world, could we? Apparently not
6 club greats who returned as manager... then failed spectacularly
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Premier League Frank Lampard beware: a successful playing career doesn’t always mean you can master it in charge at your old club, as these men painfully discovered
Quiz! Can you name the last 50 goalkeepers to save a Premier League penalty?
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Football quiz As a Cardiff keeper starts the season in style with two penalty saves in two games, can you name the Prem’s most recent penalty stoppers?
FourFourTwo's 100 Greatest Footballers EVER: 90 to 81
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FFT 100 Greatest A hot-headed Bulgarian, Argentina’s tractor and a Welshman who twisted blood for two decades in the second part of our countdown
7 Ligue 1 players who could make an instant impact in the Premier League this January
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Premier League James Eastham on the best January transfer window targets in the French top flight, from an unsettled Brazil star to rapidly improving young talent
Competition! Win tickets to see Arsenal take on Red Star Belgrade in the Europa League
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Quiz! Can you name the 38 most prolific Premier League free-kick takers over the last decade?
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Football quiz It’s every dead-ball expert to score 3+ free-kicks in the Prem from the start of the 2006/07 season to today. Let’s test your accuracy…
Quiz! Can you name the 60 highest-scoring Fantasy Premier League players of 2017/18?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz After one man broke the all-time FPL individual points record, can you recall the top players across this season?
Quiz! Can you name the 30 best attacking players from the 2018/19 Champions League group stage?
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Football quiz Based on goals and assists combined, this is every player to directly contribute to four or more goals. How many do you know?
Quiz! Can you name the top 35 Champions League goalscorers by the age of 23?
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Football quiz Teenager Kylian Mbappe is dazzling in Europe, but can you name the Champions League’s most prolific young guns ever?
Quiz! Can you name the top 24 scorers from the 2010/11 Premier League season?
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Football quiz Strikers from either side of the Manchester divide top-scored with 20 goals each, but can you recall every player to reach double figures this term?
Quiz! Can you name the 19 active Premier League players with 3+ red cards?
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Football quiz A nasty tackle this month increased the total of active Prem players with three red cards. Can you name them all?
Quiz! Can you name the top three scorers from the last 6 World Cups?
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Football quiz The Golden Boot, Silver Boot and Bronze Boot winners from the last half-dozen World Cup tournaments please