
Nick Moore
Nick Moore is a freelance journalist based on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. He wrote his first FourFourTwo feature in 2001 about Gerard Houllier's cup-treble-winning Liverpool side, and has continued to ink his witty words for the mag ever since. Nick has produced FFT's 'Ask A Silly Question' interview for 16 years, once getting Peter Crouch to confess that he dreams about being a dwarf.
Latest articles by Nick Moore

Eric Cantona's Perfect XI: who broke the King's heart?
By Nick Moore published
Perfect XI The ex-Manchester United king picks his ideal line-up for FourFourTwo...

Year Zero: The making of Eric Cantona (Leeds/Manchester United, 1992/93)
By Nick Moore published
Year Zero Hounded out of France as a troublemaker, distrusted by his manager at Leeds, the 26-year-old Cantona signed for Manchester United for £1.2m – and became a legend

Graham Taylor: Perfect XI
By Nick Moore published
Perfect XI The former England, Aston Villa and Watford chief picks his star line-up in March 2006…

Ranked! The 20 worst Premier League shirts EVER
By Nick Moore, FourFourTwo Staff published
Nottingham Forest Puma's new third kits are dividing opinions - but they pale in comparison to Luis Suarez as a jester, the bird poo monstrosity and the one that made players invisible to their team-mates

How can caretaker managers succeed? 6 rules for ensuring a temporary dugout job goes well
By Nick Moore published
Premier League With Freddie Ljungberg at Arsenal, Hayden Mullins at Watford and Duncan Ferguson at Everton, the Premier League is awash with caretaker bosses. Nick Moore spoke to some famous interims to discover the key to doing well

Ranked! The 15 best retro England football shirts of all-time
By Nick Moore published
England Nick Moore rates the finest threads we ever did see our beloved Three Lions wear

Ranked! The 10 best goals of USA '94
By Nick Moore published
World Cup 1994 Nick Moore revels in the finest strikes of the 1994 World Cup; featuring a mad-dashing Saudi Arabian, El Diego (well, duh) and a Nigerian crawling like a dog

How WhatsApp changed football
By Nick Moore published
FourFourTwo It’s not just banter – instant messaging has changed players’ habits and killed the deadline-day fax. But is it all good news?

When Manchester City were rubbish: how the 1998/99 season changed a football club’s destiny
By Nick Moore published
Action Replay City may now be a slick footballing juggernaut and among the favourites for the game’s biggest honours this season, but two decades ago they were slumming it in the third tier – and could have sunk even lower

The Rumbelows Sprint Challenge: When English football's fastest footballers raced for £10k
By Nick Moore published
Action Replay In 1992, a group of TV execs came up with an idea as brilliant as it was simple: get players from all 92 league clubs to sprint for the right to call themselves the game’s fastest (and win a new telly)

Inside the secret fight against match-fixing in football
By Nick Moore published
Long Read A Swiss company that monitors suspicious betting patterns is now at the vanguard of the battle to end match-fixing. FourFourTwo visited the London-based nerve centre of a secretive operation proving that if you want to expose corruption, just follow the money...

10 things you've probably already forgotten about the 2018 World Cup
By Nick Moore published
FIFA World Cup It’s over for another four years – yet while we’ll all remember France winning and Southgate roaring – all of this seems a lifetime ago already

Ranked! The 20 worst World Cup kits EVER
By Nick Moore published
FIFA World Cup Freddy Krueger, Roy Keane and - even scarier - Jorge Campos star in Nick Moore's countdown of the ugliest football strips ever seen at the World Cup

Ranked! The 20 greatest World Cup kits EVER
By Nick Moore published
FIFA World Cup From England’s Italia '90 classic to an All-American dazzler – Nick Moore profiles the finest strips ever worn at a World Cup finals

Ranked! The 10 most iconic World Cup hairstyles of all-time
By Nick Moore published
FIFA World Cup From the fin of Becks, to the curls of Carlos, to the holiest of ponytails: Nick Moore waxes lyrical about the most memorable World Cup hairdos

Mark Clattenburg: “English refs can’t be arrogant – they have no right to be at the World Cup”
By Nick Moore published
Mark Clattenburg The former Premier League official tells FFT about VAR benefits, growing the game and why it’s his fault there’s no English ref in Russia this summer

James Richardson talks Football Italia: "Paul Ince used to call me for Tomb Raider tips..."
By Nick Moore published
Serie A Ahead of BT Sport's new film Golazzo: The Football Italia Story, James Richardson tells FourFourTwo.com about life as the legendary show's host, Gazza's crazy ideas and gaming with the Guv'nor

Greatest individual seasons: Ruthless Shearer gets the silver his goals deserve (1994/95)
By Nick Moore published
Greatest Seasons Nick Moore continues our review of the finest individual Premier League campaigns with a merry skip back to this free-scoring season of cheer

How many of the footballers from Escape to Victory can you really remember?
By Nick Moore published
Funny Still bored in between Christmas and new year? The 1981 classic starred a peculiar pick of footballers from around the world who bickered, partied and, erm... arm-wrestled their way through filming
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