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Chelsea make MAJOR transfer ultimatum to £50m star: report
By Tom Hancock published
The summer transfer window looks set to be a pivotal one for the Blues
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WATCH: Arsenal's Declan Rice mocked by West Ham fans on London Stadium return
By Ben Hayward published
Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice was mocked by fans of hiw former club West Ham on his return to the London Stadium on Sunday
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Liverpool legend tells Reds who to sign as Mo Salah's replacement
By Tom Hancock published
Salah has less than 18 months to run on his Liverpool deal and was the subject of interest from Saudi Arabia last summer
Long Reads
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Free scarves, free travel, free booze and three goals: inside the Sunderland vs Newcastle United bubble match
By Matthew Ketchell published
FourFourTwo’s Deputy Editor Matt Ketchell attended the Wear-Tyne derby inside the Newcastle United ‘bubble’ as 6,000 supporters were bused to and from the Stadium of Light under heavy police escort
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How Beckenbauer became the brains, guts and vision of Bayern Munich
By Paul Simpson last updated
Franz Beckenbauer Did Der Kaiser invent total football? Some say so...
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The birth of the replica football shirt, 50 years on
By Matthew Ketchell published
LONG READ It's exactly half a century since a small Midlands firm went from manufacturing nuns’ knickers to selling the world’s first replica football kits, just in time for Christmas
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What happened to football on Christmas Day? The lost history of a Victorian tradition
By Paul Brown published
Premier League Football was once as much of a Christmas Day staple as the Queen's speech and pigs in blankets; but was it all festive fun or just a freezing farce? Paul Brown dons his silly hat...