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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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MEANWHILE IN… • …Turkey, FC Polissya Zhytomyr handed a debut to a new signing – heavyweight boxing champ Oleksandr Usyk

GAMES THAT CHANGED MY LIFE ANTONIO VALENCIA

URIAH: THE NOVEL • A trailblazing ref has seen his life recreated in poetic fashion…

JAMIE ‘CHUNK’ O’HARA • The ex-Tottenham midfielder on strip searches, domestic life with Jedward and boring dad chat

THE ULTIMATE QUIZ • Crack on with unwanted Champions League records, League Cup winners and ornithological footballers…

THE FOOTBALL GRID • Behind many superstars, there’s a less famous brother – it doesn’t go so well for some of them

REQUIRED READING

THE COOK ISLANDS: QATAR 2022’S MOST UNLIKELY CONTENDERS • They haven’t played since 2015, but the unranked Pacific Islanders are in the hunt

THE RETURN OF THE WORLD CUP’S WORST TEAM? • After farce in 1974, DR Congo are eyeing redemption

WHY ALWAYS HIM? • His Italy career looked to be over – but now Mario Balotelli hopes to feature for the Azzurri in Qatar…

ENI ALUKO • As the sporting director of Los Angeles’ newest club, the ex-England forward is working with Hollywood royalty – and her heroes

@FOURFOURTWO ASKS… • NAME A FOOTBALLER WHO DOESN’T LOOK LIKE A FOOTBALLER…

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100 BEST PREMIER LEAGUE PLAYERS RIGHT NOW

16 “I LOOKED OUT OF THE DOOR, IN MY PYJAMAS… AND THERE WAS MOURINHO!” • Fabinho initially struggled with Jurgen Klopp’s heavy metal football, but he’s now the complete defensive midfielder. Liverpool’s totem tells FFT how he became a world beater…

06 “IT’S A LOT OF PRESSURE, WITH ALL THESE FANTASY MANAGERS SAYING ‘WE NEED YOU TO SCORE!’” • West Ham’s scintillating wideman has hit the form of his life, making Champions League football a serious prospect. He tells FFT of non-league, potato fields and keeping his barber happy

04 “I’VE BEEN REALLY SURPRISED BY HOW CALM PEP IS… I THOUGHT HE WAS MUCH ANGRIER!” • Joao Cancelo is more than just the perfect Guardiola full-back: the Portuguese is three players in one. Desperate to maintain Manchester City’s dominance, he shares his secrets with FFT…

THE NIGHT THAT KILLED A LEGEND • Scotland and Wales could yet meet in a World Cup play-off final if all goes to plan… but they’ve been here before. In the struggle to reach Mexico 86, their crucial final-game decider was settled late on – before leading to the ultimate tragedy

WALES 1958: WEIRDEST QUALIFICATION… EVER? • It’s been 64 years since they last appeared at football’s showpiece event – but even that was hard work…

WALES. WORLD CUP. GOLF (IN THAT ORDER) • Gareth Bale has achieved it all – apart from representing Wales at a World Cup

“I’M IN EXTRA TIME THAT I DIDN’T THINK I’D GET” • After not one but two remarkable comebacks, keeper Craig Gordon is back in Scotland’s side and desperate to finally play at a major tournament, aged 39

“I TURNED DOWN THE ENGLAND JOB BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS TOO EARLY. THAT WAS A MISTAKE” • He didn’t get much wrong in his 35-year career, but Bryan Robson...