Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray is a freelance journalist, who regularly contributes to both the FourFourTwo magazine and website. Formerly a senior staff writer at FFT and a fluent Spanish speaker, he has interviewed major names such as Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah, Sergio Aguero and Xavi. He was also named PPA New Consumer Journalist of the Year 2015.
Latest articles by Andrew Murray

The best Premier League XI never to play Champions League football
By Andrew Murray published
UEFA Champions League A trio of players each with 100+ Premier League goals, plus the league's most enduring goalkeeper. How did this lot never play in the Champions League? Andrew Murray explains

How the 2000s saved El Clasico – and made Barcelona vs Real Madrid bigger than ever before
By Andrew Murray published
El Clasico Barcelona and Real Madrid despise one another - but it took a symbiotic relationship in the noughties to make their rivalry the biggest in world football. FFT delves into the blossoming of a bitter romance

We asked Joleon Lescott for his all-time team-mate XI – and his team is outstanding
By Andrew Murray last updated
PERFECT XI Ex-Manchester City star Joleon Lescott has more than delivered with his Perfect XI

How the Premier League breakaway happened: The first season of 1992/93, as told by its heroes
By Andrew Murray published
PL TURNS 30 In 1992, a group broke away from Division 1 to form a brand new league with an exciting revenue model. As the Premier League hits 30 years old, Andrew Murray remembers the first-ever Premier League season

Atletico Madrid, the Champions League's toughest team to beat? Meet Manchester United's biggest problem: Diego Simeone
By Andrew Murray published
Atlético Madrid The Argentine has performed miracles during his nine years at the helm, taking Atletico from 13th in La Liga to title winners and European trophies – now he bids for Champions League glory

What happened to Barcelona and Real Madrid? How they lost Messi and Ronaldo – and slipped from the world's summit
By Andrew Murray published
LONGREAD Barcelona play Europa League football tonight for the first time in over a decade, as both they and rivals Real Madrid are finally having to contend with years of overspending. This is how Spanish football started to struggle

Sergio Ramos is on the brink of a PSG exit... what's next for football's Iago?
By Andrew Murray published
Left out of Spain's Euros squad, now Sergio Ramos could potentially be jettisoned from PSG. Is time up for the art-loving anarchist we love to hate?

Xisco Muñoz interview: "Winning promotion to the Premier League with Watford was the best thing football could have given me"
By Andrew Murray published
Watford manager Xisco Muñoz led the Hornets back up after glory at Dinamo Tbilisi – just don’t expect a duet with Elton John, as he tells FourFourTwo in an exclusive chat...

Cristiano Ronaldo vs Kylian Mbappe: who was better at the same age?
By Andrew Murray published
Cristiano Ronaldo is back where it all began - but how good was he back then? FourFourTwo runs the numbers to find out who was better between him and Mbappe at the same age

Year Zero: How Cristiano Ronaldo's 2006/07 Manchester United season turned him into the player we know
By Andrew Murray published
Year Zero Cristiano Ronaldo was born in Portugal and soared in Spain: but really, he was made in Manchester. This is the story of how he turned around a rocky reputation and strapped a rocket launcher to his career

18 of football's most embarrassing predictions ever
By Andrew Murray published
Eating rats, doubting Lionel Messi and Mark Lawrenson losing face – these big calls went badly wrong...

Liverpool FourFourTwo preview and prediction: How can Jurgen Klopp & Co rediscover their mojo?
By Andrew Murray published
Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool suffered from injuries, a lack of Anfield crowd and an inexplicable loss of form last season. Twelve months on from ending that 30-year title wait, can the Reds rise again this season? Virgil van Dijk is back, after all...

Netherlands 0-2 Czech Republic: Holes and Schik make Dutch pay for De Ligt red card
By Andrew Murray published
Euro 2020 The Czech Republic beat 10-man Netherlands 2-0 with a display of ruthless counter-attacking after Matthijs de Ligt was sent off for handball

Euro 2020: Player ratings from Netherlands 0-2 Czech Republic
By Andrew Murray, Ed McCambridge published
Euro 2020 The Czech Republic knock out the Netherlands with Tomas Holes the hero and Matthijs de Ligt the red-carded Dutch villain

Luka Modric masterclass sees Croatia beat Scotland 3-1 and reach the Euro 2020 last 16
By Andrew Murray published
Euro 2020 Croatia beat Scotland 3-1 thanks to a Luka Modric goal and assist, knocking out Steve Clarke's side in the group stage

Croatia 3-1 Scotland: Euro 2020 player ratings
By Andrew Murray, Conor Pope published
FourFourTwo rates every player from Scotland's 3-1 Euro 2020 defeat to Croatia

Watch Euro 2020: Croatia take lead over Scotland through Nikola Vlasic goal
By Andrew Murray published
Euro 2020 Watch Croatia go 1-0 up after Nikola Vlasic's fine finish after 17 minutes

England's possible line-ups against Czech Republic: FFT writers pick who they'd start in Euro 2020 Group D decider
By Andrew Murray, Conor Pope, Mark White, Ed McCambridge, Ryan Dabbs published
Euro 2020 England vs Czech Republic will decide who wins Euro 2020 Group D, but does either side actually want to? Our writers select who they would start...

Tottenham's (seemingly endless) search for a new manager – a timeline of the coaches linked
By Andrew Murray published
Tottenham have been on the hunt for a new manager since April 19. FFT looks back at the main candidates from Daniel Levy's two months of speed dating

Italy vs Wales as it happened! Follow all the Euro 2020 group stage action
By Andrew Murray last updated
Italy beat Wales 1-0 to top Group A, but Robert Page's men still finished runners-up as the Azzurri extend their unbeaten run to 30 games...

Turkey vs Wales as it happened! All the Euro 2020 group stage action as it happened
By Andrew Murray last updated
Wales beat Turkey 2-0 thanks to an inspired Gareth Bale and Dan James in a baking Baku to go within touching distance of the last 16

Tottenham Hotspur: What if Gareth Bale and Dele Alli were good, after all?
By Andrew Murray last updated
Andy Murray ponders whether Jose Mourinho’s forgotten pair are doing it their way, without their manager’s help…

Deportivo La Coruna in crisis: why the 2004 Champions League semi-finalists are at risk of relegation to Spain's fifth tier
By Andrew Murray last updated
In 2000, Deportivo became Spanish champions – now, they’re languishing in the third tier for the first time since 1981. How on Earth did things get so bad? FFT goes in search of answers