Latest articles by Andrew Murray
The FourFourTwo Preview: Chelsea vs Stoke
Premier League Premier League | Stamford Bridge | Sat 5 Apr | 5:30pm
Explaining Marcelo Bielsa: How the Argentine came to influence football's greatest managers
Marcelo Bielsa If you thought Brian Clough’s Leeds spell was fraught, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Bielsa has inspired a generation of top coaches to become winners – and a string of club owners to pull their hair out
Wilfried Zaha: Race away from trouble
Dribbling Avoid the swipes of a hack-happy full-back with these handy tips from the Crystal Palace and England trickster
Lamela: I want to continue Ardiles and Villa legacy
Erik Lamela Tottenham Hotspur's Argentine summer signing Erik Lamela is aiming to follow in the footsteps of compatriots Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa by helping take silverware to White Hart Lane.
FourFourTwo's 100 Greatest Footballers EVER: No.4, Johan Cruyff
FFT 100 Greatest As influential with his ideas as he was with his feet, the impact of Cruyff’s genius echoes through the game today
Showstopping skills: The Neymar Flick
Control Add the Neymar flick to your arsenal with this video tutorial from professional football freestyler Daniel Cutting
The 9 best teams that DIDN'T win a thing
Lists Winning 97 points and still not lifting the title? Liverpool fans, that’s small fry compared to these nine teams who went full Icarus in the face of impending triumph
The FourFourTwo Preview: West Brom vs Everton
Premier League Premier League | The Hawthorns | Mon 20 Jan | 8pm
Showstopping skills: Hocus Pocus
Control Cast a spell over your opponent with this mesmerising trick from professional freestyler Daniel Cutting
What Naby Keita is already bringing to Liverpool
Questions were raised when the Reds paid above the RB Leipzig midfielder’s release clause last summer, but has Jurgen Klopp found the missing piece of his midfield jigsaw? FFT’s Andy Murray went to Selhurst Park to run the rule over Liverpool’s new No.8
Salomon Kalou: How to be a super sub
Hertha BSC Struggling to make an impact from the bench? Here's how you can hit the ground running
The big interview: Xavi – inside the mind of a football genius
Xavi In the Middle East and out of sight, but definitely not off the radar, Xavi tells FourFourTwo of his love for the English game, his coaching masterplan and how he nearly left Barcelona at 19 (Issue: May 2016; Photography: Shamil Tanna)
Berbatov still brings beauty and other things we learned from Fulham 2-1 West Ham
Stats Zone FFT's Andy Murray was at Craven Cottage to report his key learnings...
Diego Costa: Silence those boo boys
Psychology Chelsea’s raging bull on how to transform a venomous atmosphere into goalscoring fuel
Alvaro Morata's goalscoring masterclass
Shooting Chelsea striker Alvaro Morata on his speed of thought, scoring with both feet and playing as a lone striker
Lionel Messi: I’m not the sort of guy who shouts and screams before a match
Lionel Messi Global superstar (and some say best footballer on earth) Lionel Messi talks FourFourTwo's Andrew Murray through his daily routine and life as a Barcelona player...
The FourFourTwo Preview: West Brom vs Liverpool
Premier League Premier League | The Hawthorns | Sun 2 Feb | 1:30pm
Nikica Jelavic: Get back among the goals
Psychology Use these psychological tips from West Ham’s Croatian striker to break your barren spell upfront
Edinson Cavani: Start your season with a bang
Edinson Cavani Get your body and mind in gear for the new campaign with some sage advice from Cavani
Aymeric Laporte: 7 rules for the modern defender
Aymeric Laporte Manchester City's ball-playing centre-back Aymeric Laporte tells you the 7 rules you must obey to be a centre-back in a passing system
World Cup icons: Smoker, drinker, thinker Socrates gets himself in shape – but suffers in Spain (1982)
World Cup 1982 The great icon of Brazilian football never went beyond a World Cup quarter-final... but that was never his priority
Diego Costa got me in a headlock... and I thought he was charming: FFT's man on interviewing Chelsea's villain
Diego Costa Diego Costa’s weekend antics have sparked much outrage, and a probable three-game ban. FFT’s Andrew Murray, one of the few British journalists to have interviewed the Chelsea hitman, explains what it’s like when football’s Mr Hyde puts you into a headlock. Literally...
