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 top 60 most valuable English players in the world?
By Alex Reid last updated
Football quiz According to the experts at Transfermarkt, each of these English players have a transfer value above £10m. How many can you name?
Ranked! Every World Cup 2018 team based on their performances after two games
By Alex Reid last updated
FIFA World Cup We’ve now seen every team at Russia 2018 twice – so who’s top of the class, who’s rock bottom, and where do England sit after that win over Panama?
FourFourTwo with Billy Beane: Can the Moneyball analytics approach work in football?
By Alex Reid published
FourFourTwo Films The man who pioneered data-driven success in baseball talks about how analytics is changing football – and why, love them or hate them, the numbers aren’t going away
5 reasons why footballers fail at BBC Sports Personality of the Year
By Alex Reid published
Premier League Football is our national game, yet in 62 years of SPOTY, just five footballers have won the main award. So why does the British public tend to ignore the sport it loves most?
Summer transfer rumours: the 10 moves to watch
By Alex Reid published
Transfer news With the transfer window in its final month - and Barcelona suddenly £200m richer – these 10 major players could still move before August 31
Quiz! Can you name the 37 players with 10+ goals across Europe’s top five leagues this season?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz The Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1 goalscorers who’ve hit double figures in their league already in 2017/18
Quiz! Can you name the 40 most valuable players in the world aged 23 and under?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Young talent is always at a premium and, according to the experts at Transfermarkt, these are the most highly valued U23 footballers in the game today...
Quiz! Can you name all 79 countries to have appeared at a World Cup finals?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz After a North American nation became the latest debutants, it’s time to name every World Cup participant – from 1930 onwards
Quiz! Can you name the 37 best players at the 2018 World Cup based on goals + assists?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Each of these players has been directly involved in at least two goals in the group stage. Name them...
EVERY Premier League club’s best foreign player... ever!
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Premier League From rapping Americans to trumpet-playing Peruvians, we rate the greatest overseas imports to pull on a shirt for the 20 current Premier League sides
Gareth Southgate opens England door to Championship players, Sunday League players, fictional players, horses
By Alex Reid published
Back of the Net The England talent pool is shallower than the manager would like, Back of the Net reveals
FourFourTwo’s 50 Best Football Managers in the World 2017: 40-36
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FFT 50 Managers A pair of Northern Irishmen creating history, plus the Turkmenian giant-killer who masterminded the ‘Russian Leicester’
Quiz! Can you name the last 19 players to score just one goal for England?
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Football quiz Each of these one-goal wonders have lived the dream by scoring for the Three Lions – but then stopped scoring after their first strike. For now, at least...
Quiz! How many of Tottenham’s 46 goalscorers from the last 20 years of European football can you name?
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Football quiz Spurs have gone from Premier League mid-tablers to European regulars, but who’s netted their Champions League and Europa League goals?
Quiz! Can you name the 40 most expensive goalkeeper transfers ever?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz As Arsenal splash almost £20m on a new shot-stopper, can you name the keepers who’ve commanded the highest fees in football history?
Quiz! Can you name the starting line-ups from Brazil 1-7 Germany at the 2014 World Cup?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz As the two nations face off for the first time since that astonishing result, can you name the players involved when hosts Brazil went into a semi-final meltdown four years ago?
Quiz! Can you name the 30 top Champions League scorers currently playing in the Premier League?
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Football quiz Each of these current Prem players have six or more Champions League strikes across their careers. Time to name the lot…
Quiz! Can you name the top 19 scorers from the 2007/08 Premier League season?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz Players from Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United all hit 20+ goals – but can you recall every player who reached double figures in ’07/08?
Quiz! Can you name the top 21 goalscorers from the 1996/97 Premier League season?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz The world transfer record was broken in the summer of 1996 as a Premier League striker moved clubs. Can you name him, and all of the other men who reached double figures that season?
Quiz! Can you name the top 30 current Premier League players with the most headed goals?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz The league leaders in nodding in, including the all-time king with 52 headed goals and counting
Quiz! Can you name these 30 players who’ve scored 50+ international goals?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz One player reached the 50-goal barrier in the 2018 World Cup; can you name him and 29 others who’ve played since 2000 and scored a half-century of international goals?
Quiz! Name the 67 players to have appeared in 3+ Champions League finals
By Alex Reid last updated
Football quiz It’s the pinnacle of a footballer’s club career, so you have to be pretty special – or lucky – to complete a hat-trick of European showpieces. Can you name the players to have done it?
Quiz! Can you name football’s 30 major individual award winners of the 1990s?
By Alex Reid published
Football quiz These players bestrode the decade like supermen - so it’s time to recall the PFA and Ballon d’Or victors of the ’90s