Four Four Two

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, ...

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 ...

Time was when the only choice you had for a football magazine was the "kids" weeklies, Match and Shoot. Then along toddled FourFourTwo in September 1994 with a novel idea, a monthly football magazine aimed more at the adult market. Could it work? Well if you want a monthly football magazine now you've got a wide range to choose from such as Match of the Day magazine, Total Football and numerous others. Yet FourFourTwo has stood the test of time and is still by far and away the best football magazine on the market. Big name in-depth interviews every month alongside plenty of opinionated articles provide a great mix. "If You Were The ...