FourFourTwo: A Thinking Man's Football Magazine

Advantages: Excellent journalism and phoography. High quality production.
Disadvantages: Slightly expensive, but even that is stretching it.

...INTRODUCTION There have been a number of magazines that have plopped through my letterbox over the years ? National Geographic, The Economist and What HiFi amongst them - but none of them have had the enduring appeal of Haymarket Publications? cerebral football magazine ? FourFourTwo (Drat. There go half of you already!) I have been an Arsenal season ticket holder for over ten years now and am a regular contributor to one of the fanzines (Oh well, that?s another batch of you alienated). However, despite proudly wearing the club colours, I am first and foremost a football fan and enjoy reading football literature (Stop sniggering, that is NOT an oxymoron). FourFourTwo (FFT) is without doubt the closest thing to a ?thinking man?s? football magazine. For those not of a football-minded disposition (well done for staying...

Hishyeness 07.09.2009 · Read review
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Four wheels good.......Two wheels better

Advantages: Great stories/articles, loads of guest writers, great photography
Disadvantages: Too many adverts - but this is the case with most publications

...Two Wheels is a bike magazine aimed at real bike enthusiasts. It is a monthly magazine that is part of the visordown.com group. The Editor in Chief is Grant Leonard and columnists include ex racer Niall Mackenzie, ex racer Jamie Whitham and the Pitbull. The main features and articles of this magazine are as follows: ****Road tests**** A lot of this magazine is articles on specific bikes and testing them to their limits. The handling is tested, the comfort is tested, the acceleration is tested, the top speed is tested and, most importantly, what they are like to live with on a daily basis is tested. To keep it all legal and above board the bikes are tested on the track (for the speed and handling tests), on the drag strip (for the acceleration and top end test) and on the road (for handling and the ?real life? test...

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FOURFOURTWO

Advantages: Good read, Lots of features,
Disadvantages: Bit expensive

...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 a day though ITV Sport has gone downhill and of 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...

Chris_Padden 22.03.2002 · Read review
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It's not the diamond!

Advantages: Well written, interesting articles and interviews
Disadvantages: Some odd formatting

...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 events throughout football. ** Background ** Four Four Two was launched in 1994 and has established itself as one of the leading sports magazines in the world. Specialising in football news and interviews, the magazine has won the following awards for its contribution to sports journalism: ?UK Sports Magazine of the year? from the Sports Industry Awards in 2002 ?UK Best Editor...

jonesri 11.08.2004 · Read review
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Where Is The Goal

Advantages: Some good articles
Disadvantages: Contemporary articles not interesting

...led sensationalism of the tabloid press and the intellectualism and pseudo-social focus of the broadsheets. I know this is perhaps a sweeping generalisation but the majority of written football coverage in my view is like this. FourFourTwo has been on the newsagents shelves for a couple of years now and has a coverage of the sport which tries to mix in-depth analysis of the game and its players balanced with some neat retrospective looks at the past game and a reasonable degree of humour. The magazine does get over the problem of allegiance by ensuring its main feature articles concern the players in the top clubs. The players of Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United get a large amount of coverage. Other clubs in the Premiership are also featured and there is usually at least one article from the lower divisions. The coverage...

polydeuces 30.04.2001 (28.04.2001) · Read review
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I always preferred 2-3-5 meself, as an old fart

Advantages: Great writing, pix
Disadvantages: Too much on Man U

...The gravy train these days may be a lot less rich than it was in the days before the collapse of ONDigital and the Big Money TV deal, but football still remains the leisure pursuit of choice for millions of beer swilling Brits, whether that be watching (usually) or playing (increasingly rarely). And a decent leisure industry needs a decent, high quality magazine to encourage its followers to satisfy their more highbrow urges and do some reading as well. 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...

dave27 21.01.2004 · Read review
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Four parents, one Christmas

Advantages: Brilliant main actors, great storyline, fun festive film
Disadvantages: Lack of chemistry between Vaughn and Witherspoon, most of comedy in trailers, got a bit silly

...Brad and Kate are a happily in love couple who enjoy having fun without the responsibilities of marriage or children. For three years they've successfully managed to dodge the unwelcome Christmas season usually spent with family and have jetted off to many exotic locations. This year, having told each set of divorced parents that they won't be able to make Christmas again due to important charity work, they excitedly pack their bags ready for a hot Christmas in Fiji together. But arriving at the airport they find that their flight has been cancelled due to bad weather. When a news reporter interviews them, their families find out where they are and Brad and Kate both get phone calls inviting them round for the holidays. Doom falls upon them at the prospect of visiting four parents on Christmas day. And each visit is just as bad as...

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Four Bothers

Advantages: Some good stunt sequences
Disadvantages: Terrible acting, writing and direction

...for my tastes), but they seem wasted on such a poorly conceived film. "Four Brothers" may be the nadir of John Singleton's career, showing none of the visual flair or love of storytelling that characterised his first film. It is a travesty of writing, acting and direction that feels like a sordid glorification of brutality in the guise of justice. I felt like my intelligence was being insulted as I watched it - are audiences really stupid enough to believe that the characters are justified in their actions? Sadly the box office returns suggest so. As does the fact the viewers are willing to sit through nearly two hours of overblown yet undercooked action. So remember; those who kill little old ladies must be hunted down and killed in grisly ways, instead of being tried by a jury of their peers. Hell, if we're all going to bypass...

afy9mab 08.11.2005 · Read review
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Fantastic Four

Advantages: good action film, special effects
Disadvantages: purists maybe upset

...Four (Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch and the Thing) are born, as well as new arch villain Dr Doom. Initially I had been told lots of bad things about the Fantastic 4 film. That it was not worth seeing. That it was a lemon of a film, and that it was not a true depiction of the Fantastic Four characters from the comics. The last of these reasons (to me) would not be very high on my reasons for not seeing the film as I had not read any of the comics and so I didn't know the true story of the characters, also this was a theatrical release and so would probably upset the purists anyway no matter how it was done. However I was still not completely confident when I inserted the disk. But how did it fair? I must say I was pleasantly surprised by the film and the different "take" it had on the other superhero films I have...

sjp1966 30.04.2008 · Read review
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Two Worlds

Advantages: Flexible character development and vast exploration area
Disadvantages: Mounted ride control is horrible

.... A powerful force churns silently - weaving a secret plot of fear and destruction. In the end one of the Two Worlds will remain. Gameplay : The gameplay of Two Worlds is a real-time action in a fully three dimensional landscape. Whack the enemy, pick up objects, etc happen in real time, so players may beaten up by the enemies while thinking what armor should I equip and such :-) Similar to Oblivion and Gothic 3, the gameplay is non-linear. The player is free to explore the game world, accepting side quests at will. However, there is a core quest (main quest) centering around rescuing the hero's sister, who is being held for ransom by mysterious forces who are scheming to open the tomb of Aziraal, the god of the orcs. There is no fixed character classes like other role playing games. As the character gains experience and levels, it is...

Stenly7981 15.11.2008 · Read review
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