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

Guardiola is swift to dismiss formations as “meaningless” and, partly explaining the fluidity and flexibility with which he alte ...

You’ve spent more time with Guardiola than anyone outside his closest circle. What’s he like? There’s very little that is specia ...

Don’t ever confuse Pep Guardiola for a style-over-substance aesthete. Unsurprisingly for someone who has won 19 trophies in seve ...

Nothing is left to chance. The same long-established process is followed religiously in preparation for each fixture. Such prepa ...

Pep may have conquered all in Spain and Germany so far, but English football presents some unique challenges “Football, football ...

WHY DID I BECOME A MA nAGER? MAYBE BECAUSE I’M CRAZY 142 The Managers FourFourTwo.com THIERRY HEn RY ...

WHY DID I BECOME AGER? MAYBE BECAUSE I’M CRAZY Thierry Henry made Arsenal fans the envy of football over eight years in north Lo ...

here’s one thing that Arsene tells me all the time. ‘Enjoy the ride and all the best,’ he says, ‘because it’s not easy...’ And, ...

like this?’ It was even a bit too much at times. But I was always thinking about games and watching games. What can you do bette ...

“People don’t remember that. I didn’t start one qualifying game for Euro 2000. Nothing. I came back for the friendly just before ...

on the counter and you get up to speak. Dries already saw it. His brain is way ahead of a lot of players I’ve seen in my life.” ...

how the move happened, he affords himself a wry smile. “Well, I was available!” he says. “I knew MLS pretty well – I played ther ...

of Henry, who was overheard on a pitchside microphone shouting, “your grandmother’s a whore!” at opposition player Kenny Lala. “ ...

Is Back competition began four months later, Montreal won just one of their four fixtures following disrupted preparations – Can ...

that we will have to relocate to the US again for several months, 2021 will be no different. The separation is too big a strain ...

Words Chris Flanagan, Mark White GREAT PLAYER GAFFER? Thierry Henry isn’t the only legendary player trying his hand at managemen ...

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End were relegated to the Third Division. Unable to seal promotion the following year, he resigned in a huff, unhappy when one o ...

of four consecutive clean sheets coming as a result of their organised, back-to-basics approach. Rooney upped the team’s tempo a ...

many major trophies. Rightly, he’s regarded as one of their greatest ever players – and for some time, he’s been regarded as the ...