FourFourTwo UK – September 2019

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one, FourFourTwo can’t wait.
At the top, the highest-quality title race in Premier
League history – Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City 98
points, European champions Liverpool 97 points. In
the Championship, the remarkable promotion race,
featuring the roller-coaster ride of Marcelo Bielsa’s
Leeds. In Scotland, competitive Old Firm matches:
Celtic two wins, Rangers two wins. In Birmingham,
someone threw a cabbage at Steve Bruce.
So how do you follow that? In the nine months of
mystery that lies ahead, we’ll find out.
How will Frank Lampard fare at Chelsea? He’s the
first Englishman to manage one of the ‘Big Six’ since
Tim Sherwood at Spurs – for his sake, let’s hope he
lasts a little longer than Sherwood did.

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InSIDE

Lampard will be anticipating big things from new

arrival Christian Pulisic: in this issue, we meet the

£58m signing tipped to become the greatest American

player of all time. The secret of his success? Growing

up next to a chocolate factory, of course.

Can Pep become only the second manager to win

the top flight in three consecutive seasons? No one

but Alex Ferguson has ever done it, stretching all the

way back to 1888. We also feature Rodri, City’s new

record signing.

If you’re not feeling quite so optimistic about your

team’s prospects (the FFT staff includes supporters of

Newcastle and Bolton, so we sympathise), have a read

of our feature on the worst season ever: Doncaster

Rovers 1997-98. No matter what happens, it can’t get

any worse than that.

There’s plenty more in this issue, too. Harry

Redknapp sits down to answer your questions, Tony

Evans interviews Graeme Souness about his glory days

at Liverpool, Rio Ferdinand ponders robot butlers, and

Frank Skinner reviews Mick McCarthy’s urinal skills.

FFT also travels to Luxembourg to meet the first British

university team ever to play in the Europa League.

Then, when you’ve read all of that (and much more

besides), get stuck into our additional pre-season

preview supplement, profiling 104 teams in England

and Scotland. We hope you enjoy reading this issue –

we’ve certainly enjoyed making it. To buy FourFourTwo

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on page 38.

Let the 2019-20 season begin!