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El World Cup Diario, Day 21: A day of rest. With Jean-Claude Van Damme
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El World Cup Diario Nick Harper's getting all in a tizz with no World Cup footballery going on to discuss in his World Cup diary...
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Survey finds Palace fans' confidence in board, manager and players on the wane
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Premier League FourFourTwo and Forza Football have surveyed 200,000 fans of Premier League clubs to gauge their confidence in their team's manager, players and chairman/owner. Here, Nick Harper picks through the findings to see how Crystal Palace fans' mood has changed over the season...
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The Last 16 of Justice: How the World Cup would look if the refs had got the big calls right
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World Cup 2014 FFT's resident conspiracy thoerist, Nick Harper, calculates exactly how the 2014 World Cup group stages would and should have panned out had the men in black been on the money. The sound you can hear is straws being clutched...
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The FourFourTwo Preview: USA vs Germany
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World Cup 2014 World Cup Group G | Recife | Thu 26 Jun | 5pm
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El World Cup Diario, Day 12: Goal storm helps World Cup overcome s*** storm
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El World Cup Diario And on the 12th day, a filthy great cloud appeared overhead and threatened to rain on Brazil’s parade. Nick Harper explains...
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El World Cup Diario, Day 26: Dr Voodoo, Lazarus and evil Gus Parker
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El World Cup Diario Nick Harper swats up on the dark arts ahead of Tuesday's first World Cup semi-final in Belo Horizonte...
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El World Cup Diario, Day 11: Permutations, push bikes and finger pointing aplenty
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El World Cup Diario Nick Harper assesses the state of play as we pass the halfway point of the 2014 World Cup...
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Terry Butcher: Ask A Silly Question
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Ask A Silly Question Terry Butcher answers surreal questions for FourFourTwo back in November 2005, and soon regrets it.
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El World Cup Diario, Day 28: The show must go on
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El World Cup Diario Nick Harper wades through the wreckage following the host nation's historic World Cup semi-final exit...
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The FourFourTwo Preview: Sunderland vs Crystal Palace
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Premier League Premier League | Stadium of Light | Sat 15 Mar | 3pm
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El World Cup Diario, Day 2: Crushing disappointments
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El World Cup Diario Nick Harper reviews the World Cup's second day...
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Don't read all about it: Mundanity, meddling and muting in football journalism
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Premier League Raheem Sterling's arrival in Manchester highlighted a worrying trend of mind-numbing footballer interaction, writes Nick Harper - but the landscape is changing on another level...
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The FourFourTwo Preview: Man United vs Aston Villa
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Premier League Premier League | Old Trafford | Sat 29 Mar | 12:45pm
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Villa fans now even less confident in Lambert than they were at the start of the season
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Premier League Nick Harper picks through the findings to see how Aston Villa fans' mood has changed over the season...
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El World Cup Diario, Day 17: Chickens, pigs & the Mafia - business as usual from Brazil
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El World Cup Diario Batteries fully charged, Nick Harper returns with his latest findings from Worldcupsville as the knockout stages begin...
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The FourFourTwo Preview: Crystal Palace vs Aston Villa
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Premier League Premier League | Selhurst Park | Sat 12 Apr | 3:07pm
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Chelsea fans trust the board far less than Jose, JT & Co.
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Premier League FourFourTwo and Forza Football have surveyed 200,000 fans of Premier League clubs to gauge their confidence in their team's manager, players and chairman/owner. Here, Nick Harper picks through the findings to see how Chelsea fans' mood has changed over the season...
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Ice cream, sausages and beer: Transfer fees that make Di Maria's £59.7m look dull
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Transfer news Angel di Maria's move from Real Madrid to Manchester United may have broken the British transfer record, but that monster fee seems a bit boring when compared to some of history's more bizarre transfer down-payments. Nick Harper lists 10 of the oddest...
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Fewer than half of West Brom fans now have confidence in Irvine
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Premier League FourFourTwo and Forza Football have surveyed 200,000 fans of Premier League clubs to gauge their confidence in their team's manager, players and chairman/owner. Here, Nick Harper picks through the findings to see how West Brom fans' mood has changed over the season...
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Thrashings, scraps and sacking after sacking after sacking: How the 2014/15 Premier League will unfold
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Premier League The new Premier League season is upon us, and you're probably wondering how the whole wacky business is going to unfold - well fear not, Nick Harper has the answers...
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El World Cup Diario, Day 3: A full day on the Scuffelbrau
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El World Cup Diario Reflections from Nick Harper on the World Cup's longest, booziest day...
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El World Cup Diario, Day 14: No story to see here, move along
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El World Cup Diario Nick Harper discusses the fallout from the big story about you-know-who and you-know-what that definitely, absolutely, categorically is not a story...
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The FourFourTwo Preview: Tottenham vs Aston Villa
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Premier League Premier League | White Hart Lane | Sun 11 May | 3pm