Four Four Two

I have been reading Four Four Two on and off for a couple of years. I am an armchair football fan and like to keep up with the latest gossip from all clubs as well as finding out more in-depth views on current issues and events. While Four Four Two does not cover the gossip aspect of football so well (being a monthly publication it is not practical to try and keep up with the daily changing gossip) it does provide insight into current issues and ...
...As with most monthly publications, Four Four Two has some regular features that are included in every issue such as letters to the editor and reviews on the latest football related books, games and videos. Each month there is also at least one feature interview with one of the stars of the football world. The interviewee varies from month to month and is often a major star from the past, present or future of football. The subject of the interview ...

jonesri 11.08.2004 · Read full review
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...a well-known football formation – four at the back, four in midfield and two strikers up front (the poor goalkeeper is ignored as he is the one constant). '''FORMAT''' FFT, which is printed on glossy, high quality paper, comes out once a month and has a news-stand price of £4.10. As a subscriber, I pay £19 every six months by direct debit – a saving of 20% off the cover price. The magazine, which celebrates its 15th birthday this month, has a healthy ...
...There are three or four eagerly awaited special supplements a year, including the Top 100 Football Rich List, 100 Best League Players from the Championship and down the leagues, and the annual season preview. You also get a World Cup and European Championship supplement when these tournaments come around with a nice wall chart to keep tabs on proceedings. They also produced an Ashes supplement this year which was a welcome – if rather unexpected ...

Hishyeness 07.09.2009 · Read full review
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You may have noticed that I do like my football just a little bit. Ok, that is a bit of an understatement I love the game and I am obsessed. I love Exeter City through all the things they have put me through, when I am not playing or watching it then I can read about it. There are many sources of information and media things around these days. The newspapers have all the news, gossip and reports daily, television seems to be showing several games ...
...course the Internet. The Internet has threatened to kill off all competition offering live news and all at the touch of the button. Still that has not totally happened and they all live on. Magazines still exist, and FourFourTwo has to be the best around for football nowadays. FourFourTwo has been around for some time, though a relative new addition of only a couple of years does not have the huge history of some publications. It is a more educated ...

Chris_Padden 22.03.2002 · Read full review
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The issue for a football magazine is knowing who is likely to buy and read the magazine or as business studies people would say the ‘addressable market’. If you ask people are they football fans a majority of the population might say yes. If this mass of people are then asked ‘Do you ever buy a football related product or go to a game?’ then many would probably reply in the negative. Of those remaining many are only interested ...
...support for one club. The numbers who are fans of the sport but without allegiance are probably a small proportion of the numbers who expressed an interest in the game. How then can a magazine without a bias towards a club create a niche for itself. The majority of football coverage falls into 2 categories – the personality led sensationalism of the tabloid press and the intellectualism and pseudo-social focus of the broadsheets. I know this ...

polydeuces 30.04.2001 (28.04.2001) · Read full review
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...And that is exactly where Four Four Two comes in... 442 (quicker to type than Four Four Two) is the major quality football magazine in the UK (if you discount all the a*** licking narcissism of the Man U mags, that is) and it's easy to see why. I'll offer as evidence an in depth analysis of the February 2004 edition if you'll permit, because it's always best to get some detail of such things. 442 is a glossy, full colour monthly football magazine ...
...with anything like a reasonable choice. The cover contains the strapline "The Ultimate Football Magazine" and they're probably right. It's published by Haymarket Magazines and is edited by Mat Snow, a name I think I recognise from former contributions to the NME but I may be wrong. certainly the feel of the whole thing is very reminiscent of the irreverence of the good old music mag, so if Mr Snow has never been in that particular publication he ...

dave27 21.01.2004 · Read full review
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...The only downside about the four four two magazine is that there are some articles that i believe are only space fillers, and they are the ones where they go on about football in countries such as norway etc, where to be honest not many people round here care a lot about. But other than that this is a great magazine to buy. The complexity of the writing isn't that much, so i'd say this magazine would be suitable for anyone aged 13+ ...

cliffey123 16.05.2006 (31.05.2006) · Read full review
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