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I ‘loved’ it” Russell Brand TOURING AUSTRALIA SEPTEMBER 2018 FINAL TICKETS ON SALE NOW! frontiercomedy.com/davidbaddiel @Baddiel frontiertouring AUSTRALIAN LEVEL 6, BUILDING A, 207 PACIFIC HIGHWAY, ST LEONARDS, SYDNEY, NSW 2065 EDITORIAL Tel (02) 9901 6100 Fax (02) 9901 6116 Australian Editorial Team Angela Bacic @AngeBacic, John Davidson @JohnnyDDavidson, Cheryl Downes @ChicasFootball, Straight from the stands Leo James @RealLeoJames, Lucas Radbourne-Pugh @LucasRadbourne, Ben Somerford @BenSomerford, Con Stamocostas @ConStama10, Kathy Stone @SheWritesMe, Clement Tito @ClementGTito You can follow me Art Director Danny McGonigle or send me a tweet Group Editor Kevin Airs @KevinAirs (2014-2018) on @KevinAirs Head of Sport - Digital @ Next Media Email [email protected] Past Australian FourFourTwo Editors All good things must come to an end… and after 13 years, this is my final FourFourTwo. 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A-League crowd numbers and TV viewing figures have waxed and UK Editor Hitesh Ratna International Director Matt Ellis waned but TV money has continued to increase from literally nothing in the first season to nudge $60m a year, with two more teams to expand the A-League to 12 and another two soon after. Football is in a good place in 2018. It could be in a better place, but at least we’re heading in the right direction… generally – and we’ve charted its progress through thick Subscriptions hotline 1300 361 146 and thin, via big name stars, wannabes and those who came and went. Email [email protected] FourFourTwo Level 6, Building A, 207 Pacific Highway, Sadly though, a change in the overseas ownership of means Nextmedia St Leonards NSW 2065 will no longer publish the Australian edition of the magazine. For reasons beyond our Locked Bag 5555 St Leonards NSW 1590 control, this is the last FourFourTwo Australia for the foreseeable future. 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You are welcome to access the information that we hold about you by getting in touch with our privacy officer,who can be contacted at nextmedia, Locked Bag 5555, St Leonards, NSW 1590 Printed on paper sustainably sourced from PEFC certified forests FourFourTwo September 2018 5 UPFRONT 08 30 08 One on One James Milner 14 12 Global Stories 16 At The End Of The Day Chris Greenacre 18 My Greatest Goal Gary Cole FEATURES 20 Can Anyone Stop City? Pep’s laid down the challenge, now who will step up? 24 He’s Here, He’s Everywhere! Liverpool’s Robert Firmino will be on fire this season 28 John Terry’s Heir Chelsea’s Andreas Christensen is ready to take on the challenge – but not the armband 30 It’s Trophy Time For Spurs ...says Christian Eriksen. Should 48 we hold our breath? 34 You Want Some? Come ahead, says Arsenal’s Uruguayan Lucas Torreira 36 I Dance Better Than Pogba! Jesse Lingard has got moves 40 Will Wolves Sign Ronaldo Next? The enigmatic agent is key to all that Wolverhampton have done 42 Spend! Spend! Spend! The new season’s key signings 36 94 48 Premier League Preview Every club analysed, assessed, rated and slated for 2018-19 PERFORMANCE 94 Masterclass Frank Lampard 96 Like A Pro 97 Tried And Tested 98 My Perfect XI Roddy Vargas UPFROnT NICE TRY A Paysandu player drew a TV with his hands in a vain attempt >< to get the officials to go to VAR during a match with Coritiba – forgetting that, unlike the World Cup, Brazil’s second tier doesn’t actually have it James, what separated you from your That was December 26, then on the team-mates at youth level for you to 28th I scored again against Chelsea. OnE-On-OnE make your Leeds debut aged only 16? After that, it blew up – and then the fun Aaron Kidmas, via Instagram started. People would come to my local I don’t know – it was a long time ago! cricket club, asking for me and asking It’s hard to say what the coaches saw where my parents lived. Everyone at for Terry Venables to put such a young the cricket club would pretend they’d player in the first team, but I remember never heard of me! JAMES MILnER going away with the under-19 side to It’s hard to put into words what that Scotland during pre-season and them first Leeds goal meant, as a Leeds fan, sending me home early. I wondered if a ballboy, a season ticket holder. My Interview Chris Flanagan Photography Jon Shard I had done something wrong, but they family and friends, the people I had said, “You’re going to be playing a lot gone to school with – they’d be there of football this year.” I went into the watching me when I played for Leeds reserves, then quickly into training with at Elland Road. You don’t really think IS HE BOTHERED THAT PEOPLE THInK HE’S BORInG? the first team, then I got chucked in for about it at the time, but they are nice my debut. It was all so fast, from doing memories. It was disappointing that WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE CRUSHED BY A DInOSAUR? my GCSEs over the summer to making I didn’t get to play for Leeds for longer, HOW BOnKERS WAS MARIO BALOTELLI AT CITY? my first-team debut by November. but to do it at all was pretty special. When you netted against Sunderland How gutted were you to be sold when You know what they say: never work He has always been happy to play at the age of 16 years and 346 days, Leeds went down? There were all with children, animals or pies. But, along with the ‘Boring Milner’ persona did you know right away that you had sorts of stories about the club’s cash in the latest edition of the surreal bestowed on him in recent years, but become the youngest goalscorer in problems – did you ever have to feed adventures of FourFourTwo, we are in truth it’s largely an act.