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'There’s a feeling of togetherness at Coventry. The challenge now is whether we can take that forward and improve even more' Frank Lampard names best pound-for-pound signing he's made amidst Premier League promotion push

Chelsea hero Frank Lampard is forging a powerful connection with fans of Coventry City

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"Some journalist went 'Obviously you might play now Gerrard’s not around?' It got my back up. So I made sure that whatever I did in that World Cup, I did myself proud" Nicky Butt recalls getting one over on Liverpool star at 2002 Finals

Manchester United midfielder Nicky Butt impressed at the World Cup in 2002 and has spoken up about his motivation

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Hard Rock Stadium: Capacity, location, World Cup 2026 games and everything you need to know about the venue

Hard Rock Stadium is hosting World Cup 2026 games as the World Cup returns to Florida

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The Debate: Which Premier League manager did the best in 2025?

It's FourFourTwo's big end-of-year debate, and we want to hear from you: tell us your thoughts on our writers' picks and what 2026 might have in store for these two bosses

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'Brian Clough shouted at me for barging into the changing room. I remembered to knock every time after that' Colin Todd on the ex-Nottingham Forest boss and his memory of an elephant

Colin Todd worked with Brian Clough at Sunderland, Derby County and Nottingham Forest

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‘Nicole Kidman is always great to watch - oh, then there’s Winston Churchill of course… there are so many legends’ Sean Dyche on his favourite redheads… and the best hole in the world

Sean Dyche represents the redhead community in the Premier League and he's a knowledgeable ambassador

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‘I got a phone call and our manager said, ‘I think you’d better take it’. It was the Pope - I said, ‘Hi Pope, you alright?’ So we went to the Vatican to meet the Pope and shook hands with him’ Paul Gascoigne on meeting Pope John Paul II

The Pope was lucky enough to have an audience with Gazza during his time in Serie A

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'I almost signed for Manchester United, but all of a sudden Chelsea came in for me – then they almost sent me on loan to CSKA Moscow' Joe Cole on his Russian Premier League and Old Trafford near-misses

Joe Cole was the sixth signing made by Chelsea under the ownership of Roman Abramovich

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The story of 2025 in FourFourTwo covers

At the end of another thrilling football year, we look back at 2025 through the lens of our covers

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'The Boy's A Bit Special' Why Chelsea's answer to Bukayo Saka is arriving at Stamford Bridge this summer

Geovany Quenda could prove to be Chelsea's answer to Bukayo Saka - if the Portuguese winger is given the same pathway the England star was afforded at the Emirates Stadium

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'The Boy's A Bit Special' Bournemouth breakout puts elite clubs on red alert for France international of the future

Few players make the jump from France's second tier to the Premier League as seamlessly as Eli Junior Kroupi appears to have done for AFC Bournemouth

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Gillette Stadium: Capacity, location, World Cup 2026 games and everything you need to know about the venue

Gillette Stadium is hosting World Cup 2026 games as Foxborough welcomes the world's greatest football tournament for the second time

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2025: The Year of the Underdog (even North Korea won something)

It wasn’t just Newcastle who defied expectations during a weird 2025 – while Manchester City won nothing, others also enjoyed unlikely success

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'Walter was an incredibly successful manager and an even better bloke, and I found it a really interesting way of looking at it' Frank Lampard reveals managerial wisdom from Rangers legend Walter Smith

Coventry City manager Frank Lampard took to heart a piece of advice from the late Rangers boss Walter Smith

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'When you play for a club like Chelsea, you’re obligated to try and win every trophy at the end of the season' Joao Pedro on his hunger for silverware at Stamford Bridge

Joao Pedro won his first trophy within days but knows the pressure is on to add to Chelsea's silverware

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‘If you brought prime Sir Alex Ferguson back in, he wouldn’t be able to turn it around straight away. The club is rotten from the bottom up at the minute’ Nicky Butt on the state of Manchester United

Nicky Butt enjoyed enormous success with Man United under Ferguson and reflected on their more modern struggles

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‘I look like Henry VIII - it’s a very different kind of honour, but I love it’ Sean Dyche on The Royal Dyche in Burnley

Sean Dyche was immortalised in his adopted Lancashire home after years in the Premier League with the Clarets

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'The Boy's A Bit Special' Bundesliga's Dimitar Berbatov regen Can Uzun coming to a league near you

Eintracht Frankfurt have a reputation for developing forwards before exporting them to the Premier League - is Can Uzun next?

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'The Boy's A Bit Special' Ajax teenager with shades of Liverpool star already in World Cup reckoning

Ajax are renowned for producing talent through their world-renowned De Toekomst academy but for this versatile midfielder, Amsterdam is merely a finishing school

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Estadio BBVA: Capacity, location, World Cup 2026 games and everything you need to know about the venue

Estadio BBVA is hosting World Cup 2026 games as the greatest show on earth goes to Mexico for the third time

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From Orient to the Oche: Matt Porter was the chief executive at a League One club aged only 26 – now he’s running professional darts

Darts has officially gone global and at the heart of the operation is a football fan who went from fanzine to boardroom in just ten years

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‘When Terry Venables died, I was sat in the car and cried my eyes out. Terry was a f**king diamond. He had to be, to put up with me’ Paul Gascoigne on the manager he loved playing for most

Gazza played for a succession of England managers and thrived more under some than others

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'I respect Xhaka and Shaqiri as footballers, but if you like Albania so much, then why don’t you play for Albania?' Nemanja Matic on Serbia rivalry and political tension

Serbia and Albania aren't the best of friends off the pitch, which makes for a testy affair whenever the two sides meet on it

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'I was just in a deep, dark place after West Ham got relegated. I didn’t want to leave the house, feeling that I’d let people down' Joe Cole on the Hammers' improbable relegation

Joe Cole tells FourFourTwo about the aftermath of West Ham United's relegation from the Premier League in 2003

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‘Playing under Frank Lampard was strange. With little explanation I found myself out of the squad, so I decided to leave’ Pedro reveals why he called time on Chelsea spell

Pedro spent five years at Stamford Bridge before leaving Chelsea to join AS Roma in 2020

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