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

Images PA; Getty Images GORDON STRACHAN “The music he chose for the team bus was bad – some pub singer. The players decided the ...

FERGIE Images PA 42 The Managers FourFourTwo.com FROm THE FFT ARCHIVES: DECEMBER 2016 ...

YEARS OF FERGIE THE U nTOLD STORIES Everyone knows Alex Ferguson’s 26 years with Manchester United brought trophies, racehorses ...

1 FERGIE: ARSEn AL’S SAVIOUR? Charlie Nicholas Friend I remember the moment Alex told me he’d been offered the Manchester United ...

6 ALWAYS GOOD TO MEET A FAn Andy Mitten Fanzine editor I wrote to Alex as a 16-year-old in the summer of 1991, saying that I was ...

14 PLEASE TURn OFF YOUR MOBILE PHOn ES Paul Parker United defender, 1991-96 Once, Steve Bruce’s wife was in hospital having a ba ...

21 WInnING THE TREBLE IS SO LAST SEASOn Bill Beswick Consultant sports psychologist, 1999-0 1 I remember the first day of pre-se ...

and who looked tired. He could tell when his players were on top and also when they were at rock bottom. 26 WE’RE SEn DIn G YOU ...

ON SALE NOW Football in the 90s boasted mavericks such as Gazza, saw Italy’s Serie A dominate and witnessed an England team play ...

ARSEn E WEn GER 50 The Managers FourFourTwo.com FROm THE FFT ARCHIVES: n OVEMBER 2020 ...

WEnGER OUT His glittering tenure at Arsenal cemented a reputation among the all-time managerial greats, even if his latter seaso ...

16 November 2020 FourFourTwo I n the depths of winter, everything started with A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Arsene Wenger has brok ...

he was a bit-part player when they became domestic champions in 1979, largely focusing on his role coaching the youth team. In 1 ...

got a new manager starting here today – it’s Arsene Wenger’. A voice from the back said, ‘Who the f**k is that?’” But Wenger’s p ...

Bergkamp was already at Arsenal, so I found a good mixture between the long-serving players and the foreign ones.” Gaining his n ...

it’s in a healthy situation,” he says. “We had no support from anyone – we had to buy the land for £120m, build the new stadium ...

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 ...