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Every month, our team deliver the biggest names, the finest features and the most respected columnists in football. FourFourTwo is the only magazine that truly reflects football in all its extremes. Spectacular, dramatic, hilarious, opinionated, authoritative, intelligent, quirky - from the grass roots up, if it's in the game, it's in FourFourTwo.

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MICAH RICHARDS • “Frank Lampard didn’t say hello, so I smashed him and said, ‘Who the f**k do you think you are?’ I played terribly in that game”

MEANWHILE IN … • …New Zealand, FIFA chief Gianni Infantino picked the most unfortunate moment possible to drop his car keys

ENI ALUKO GAMES THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

THE ULTIMATE QUIZ • Test your World Cup knowledge with this array of posers from the history of the planet’s biggest competition

MICK MCCARTHY VS ROY KEANE

REQUIRED READING

MY FOOTBALL • The film producer and talkSPORT host couldn’t halt John Burridge’s Corfu sit-ups

1982 EL SALVADOR ROUTED, KUWAIT SHEIKH INVADES PITCH

GERMANY: A WHOLE DIFFERENT ANIMAL • Miroslav Klose as a tiger and Toni Kroos as a snake (holding another snake) – the 2010 World Cup was just odd

ROBERTO MARTINEZ • The Belgium manager is preparing for a third tournament in charge – with his contract up, it may well be his last

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THE LAST DANCE • For all their many achievements, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have never won the World Cup - in Qatar they've got one more shot at glory and sealing their status as the greatest of all time

CLUB 30-37 • Is this the veterans’ World Cup? Messi and Ronaldo are far from the only stars off to Qatar in their advancing years – these 10 are in their fourth decade, too

NEYMAR NOW OR NEVER? • What happens to Brazil in Qatar could be crucial in defining the legacy of the Selecao’s biggest star. At the same age, Pele had three World Cup winners’ medals around his neck and was retired from international football – now, Neymar’s moment of truth has arrived

WE’LL LEARN FROM 2018 • Germany travelled to Russia as holders four years ago, but shockingly exited in the group stage. It wasn’t exactly the World Cup debut that Joshua Kimmich had dreamed of, but the Bayern Munich star is now 27 and determined to help his country go for glory once more this time around…

THE WINNERS ’ CURSE • Every nation dreams of lifting the World Cup, but once they’ve finally done it, things can quickly unravel. Via jewellery scandals, war and Stefan Effenberg’s middle finger, the next tournament often falls flat…

WORLD Kylian’s • Kylian Mbappe transitioned from wonderkid to world class in Russia 2018, but his ride since then hasn’t been completely bump-free. Many moan about a winter World Cup, but could the timing be perfect for France’s No.10?

LE ROMANTIQUE • Saudi Arabia boss Herve Renard’s World Cup goal is to get the Green Falcons out of a group featuring Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski, but he has form for doing the impossible. Just ask Zambia and Cambridge…

GIVE ’EM SOME WELSH SUGAR • Six months after ending Nottingham Forest’s 23-year top-tier exile, Brennan Johnson will venture to Wales’ first World Cup since 1958. He tells FFT why Michael Sheen has their backs…

HEY, (DON’T FORGET) JUDE • Wales’ young dragon has plenty in common with England’s young lion Bellingham

“WHEN I SCORED IN THE 119TH MINUTE AGAINST GERMANY, I WENT THROUGH SO MANY EMOTIONS – MY WHOLE LIFE PASSED IN FRONT OF MY EYES” • Fabio Grosso was a low-profile left-back for Palermo prior to the 2006 World Cup – by the end of it, he’d netted one of the...