Four Four Two

Four Four Two is probably the best magazine out at the moment that caters for adult football fans. As a kid, I was a huge fan of Match and must have spent over a grand on the five hundred and something issues that are now gathering dust in the attic. But as I grew older I wanted something more in-depth and not just about the Premiership. This is how I started subscribing to Four Four Two, for its quirky articles, interviews and pieces about fotball from all around the world. My favourite thing about Four Four Two is the interesting articles that you don't really get in any other magazine like articles about rivalries in Vietnam, Alternative Awards among other ...  Read the complete review

~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ...  Read the complete review

As a subscirber of FourFourTwo magazine for a number of years, I belive that without doubt, it is the best football magazine aimed at serious football fans that is available on the market. The other main magazines focused on domestic football are Match and Shoot. Match is very good in its own right, but is focussed much more on a younger audience. I find the writing in Shoot to be quite boring and often feel that there aren't enough interesting articles in there. This leaves us with FourFourTwo, which doesn't fail to deliver. FourFourTwo does not focus on providing a news round up of everything that has happened in the world of football in the last month, it ...  Read the complete review

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, ...  Read the complete review

With having easy access to the internet and with so much football news on the tv nowadays due to sky I have stopped buying this magazine. However it used to be my little treat and having read a number of football magazines I found this to be the best one. Its in depth like a book. What I mean by this is you don't get pages and pages of adverts. It features football from across the Premiership Championship and lower leagues. As a West Bromwich Albion fan I even though this season we have been a Premiership club I hate the way the media concentrates on the big four and other clubs in the Premier league. As a true football fan I want to know who Preston have ...  Read the complete review