Four Four Two Presents - The Managers - UK - Issue 01 (2021)

coaches who worked with limited resources like I did would turn down Madrid.” But despite an admiration for Los Blancos that ste ...

16 November 2020 FourFourTwo his challenging final years at the club. As a lad growing up in France, he’d avidly watched the FA ...

“It was very tense in the corridor that day, because it was a match that was difficult to swallow,” Wenger says now. “We were bo ...

34 March 2019 FourFourTwo.com In June 2019, Rafael Benitez left Newcastle and headed to China. Five months on he met FourFourTwo ...

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T he rain is pouring down on the Wirral, but we have a treat in store. Rafa Benitez wants to show us his holiday photos. Normall ...

Images Getty Images; PA Dalian Yifang already had Marek Hamsik and Yannick Carrasco on their playing staff when Benitez arrived ...

“ISTAnBUL In 2005 WAS THE MOST EMOTIOnAL FInAL EVER – MAYBE THE MOST EMOTIOnAL FInAL THERE WILL EVER BE. PEOPLE SAY, ‘OH, YOU WE ...

Surely it doesn’t get more impressive than engineering a comeback from three goals down to win the Champions League? That is, un ...

“I WAnT TO COMPETE TO WIn TROPHIES – IF I CAn’T, THEn I WAnT TO BUILD SOMETHInG” 66 The Managers FourFourTwo.com RAFA BEn ITEZ ...

Rafa Benitez is unique. He turned a squad containing Djimi Traore into champions of Europe. He sat calmly, cross-legged on the s ...

GOALS GALORE Rafael Benitez 2.76 Carlo Ancelotti 2.71* Jose Mourinho 2.67 Manuel Pellegrini 2.48 Zinedine Zidane 2.25 Guus Hiddi ...

Or get it from selected supermarkets & newsagents Ordering is easy. Go online at: It began (sort of) with England thrashing ...

“IF THIS DOESn ’T GET THE LOCALS O n SIDE, n OTHIn G WILL” 70 The Managers FourFourTwo.com SOUn ESS ...

Thatcher-supporting Graeme Souness was too ‘English’ for hardcore Rangers fans despite his success at Ibrox, and his turbulent a ...

raeme Souness is English. That’s what some Rangers fans assured Scottish football writer Sandy Jamieson in 1990. The fact he was ...

hung up his boots in 1991 – but remained just as combative off it. The three primary targets for his ire were the Scottish Footb ...

“I WAS n AIVE ABOUT WHAT RAn GERS WERE ABOUT. THAT RELIGIOUS STUFF DIDn ’T MATTER TO ME. WE CHAn GED THIn GS FOR THE BETTER” of ...

Clockwise from far left England duo Butcher and Woods joined the Souness revolution; the signing of Catholic striker Johnston (s ...

Image Getty Images JOSE MOURInHO FROm THE FFT ARCHIVES: MARCH 2020 ...