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! Can you name the 55 highest-scoring Fantasy Football players for the 2018 World Cup?
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Football quiz It's the top scorers for the Telegraph’s Fantasy Football World Cup as we reach the semi-final stage. Do you know the players who’ve done the business in Russia?
Quiz! Can you name the top 50 active Premier League goalscorers?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Wayne Rooney is at D.C. United, having departed on 208 Premier League goals – but can you name the highest scorers still currently in the Prem as 2018/19 begins?
Quiz! Can you name the most valuable* player for every country going to the 2018 World Cup?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz It’s the player from each of the 32 nations that Transfermarkt deems to boast the biggest cash value. How many can you name?
Quiz! Can you name all 18 managers to win the League Cup over the last three decades?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Every gaffer to lift this trophy over the last 30 years, from one-cup men to a duo of bosses who’ve won it four times apiece
Quiz! Can you name the top 24 scorers from the 2008/09 Premier League season?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Manchester United edged Liverpool for the title, but a Chelsea player topped the scoring charts. Can you name every player to score 10+ Premier League goals?
FourFourTwo's 100 Greatest Footballers EVER: 40 to 31
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FFT 100 Greatest Italy’s golden boy, Spain’s only Ballon d’Or winner and the ageless Wizard of the Dribble
Quiz! Can you name the top active goalscorer for these 40 international sides?
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Football quiz As a Welsh powerhouse becomes his country's all-time leading scorer with a hat-trick, let’s test your knowledge of current international top scorers
Quiz! Can you name the top-scoring Fantasy Premier League players of 2017/18?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz After six games, these are the players who have started the season like a train, earning their proud FPL gaffers incredible points totals – including the current leader on 52 points
Quiz! Can you name the top 52 active Premier League goalscorers?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz A certain Everton striker scored his 200th Premier League goal this month, but can you name the rest of the league’s most prolific current players?
Quiz! Can you name each Premier League club’s top three all-time Prem scorers?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz The modern-day goal heroes for each of the 20 current Premier League outfits
Quiz! Can you name the Three Lions line-up from England 5-1 Croatia from 2009?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz The last time these sides met before this semi-final in Russia was a World Cup qualifier in 2009. Can you name the England side that day?
Quiz! How many of the 67 Premier League managers from the 1990s can you name?
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Football quiz It’s EVERY full-time Premier League manager from the 1992 to the millennium. Surely you can’t recall them all…
Quiz! How many of FourFourTwo's 100 Best Players in the World from 2007 can you name?
By Alex Reid published
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?
By Alex Reid published
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! Can you name these 40 famous football brothers?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Each of these siblings paved a career at the highest level – well, a fairly high level – from Dutch international twins to a pair of Danish football legends
Why Liverpool vs Tottenham is a two-fingered salute to football's era of the individual
By Alex Reid published
UEFA Champions League The single superstar has been obsessed over for too long. This terrific Champions League season is a welcome reminder that football remains the ultimate team sport
Quiz! Can you name the 51 players who’ve contributed to at least six Premier League goals this season?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Every player to have a goal + assist total of six or more – it's the Fantasy Premier League stars of 2017/18
Quiz! How many of Tottenham’s 50 biggest ever transfers can you name?
By Alex Reid published
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?
Quiz! Can you name the top 20 scorers from the 2009/10 Premier League season?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Chelsea broke the record for goals in a Premier League season, while Spurs put nine past Wigan - but can you name all 20 players to hit double figures in ‘09/10?
Quiz! Can you name the line-ups from the 2002 FA Cup Final: Arsenal vs Chelsea?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz The two London clubs that meet on Saturday have played in one FA Cup final before, 15 years ago this summer. Can you recall the teams that day?
Juan Mata: There’s never been a problem with Mourinho – I wanted to prove myself at Manchester United
By Alex Reid published
Juan Mata Juan Mata has told FourFourTwo that his relationship with Jose Mourinho is not what the press make it out to be.
Quiz! How many of the top 24 scorers from the 2014/15 Premier League season can you name?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Players from Man City, Tottenham and Chelsea broke the 20-goal barrier - but can you recall every player to crack double figures in ’14/15?
Quiz! Name the top-three finishers in World Cup Golden Ball standings 1986-2014
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz It’s the best three players – according to the official FIFA award, anyway – at every World Cup from Mexico 1986 to Brazil 2014. Name these superstars…
Win! Tickets for you and a friend to see England vs Italy at Wembley on 27 March
By Alex Reid last updated
Competitions Gareth Southgate’s youthful squad face Italy at Wembley Stadium connected by EE on Tuesday, 27 March (KO 8pm) - and to celebrate we’ve got three pairs of tickets to give away