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UPFRONT

20 Top 10 footballers’ money-making schemes Bars, porn... wigs? The best and worst entrepreneurs 29 Games That Changed My Life: Bryan Robson Robbo remembers what made him a legend 44 Nicklas Bendtner’s jewellery range The big Dane shows off his necklaces (and snake) 51 FFT columnist: Salgado

Club tensions are gone when your country calls 53 FFT columnist: The Player

Our insider reveals when mind games go wrong

FEATURES

One-on-One: Shay Given

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The Irishman answers your questions ahead of his biggest ever summer. Ruud Gullit, look away now...

58 COVER STORY England’s masterplan

Revealed: how the Three Lions can upset the odds by learning from history – plus interviews with Hart, Young, Sturridge and Welbeck, while the experts analyse how they can win without Rooney

COVER STORY Holland’s comeback

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At Soccer City in 2010, the Dutch had a PR disaster. Now they’re back. FFT and Rafa van der Vaart report how Holland embraced Total Football once more

84 COVER STORY Germany’s foreign legion

Germany have been pulled together from across the globe. Polish-born Lukas Podolski talks coming home 90 COVER STORY Spain’s impending failure

Spain are doomed (or so we hope). But Fernando Llorente, Xavi and Vicente Del Bosque beg to differ 98 Does anyone support the Met Police FC?

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We ask the question as the rozzers seek promotion The season the Football League went nuts

Text pests! 22-man brawls! Split ballbags! Read if you dare how England’s lower tiers lost the plot

107 Your guide to betting on Euro 2012

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All you need to know for having a flutter this summer plus a fantastic bet offer exclusive to FFT readers 116 The team that turned down Messi

So a 12-year-old Flea turns up at your club, scores eight goals in a trial... and you sign his mate instead. 122 Action Replay: Ramsey’s Ipswich heroes

Would you believe us if we said the World Cup wasn’t Alf Ramsey’s greatest achievement? In 1962 he took a promoted team to... well, we won’t spoil it

PLANET FOOTBALL

129 “The goal’s this way!” say fans – with arrows 130 Nilmar on La Liga, Brazil and his English dream 137 Spain boycott Euro 2016! Cheers, Gibraltar... Plus Why Brits love Cyprus; Udinese boss

Francesco Guidolin on why he wants to move to England; get hence to LA; Brits in Cyprus

PERFORMANCE

139 Think big... and hit the target every time 142 Mikel Arteta’s guide to passing a team to death + his top training ground routine at Arsenal 146 Ashley Young on pace, technique and gym work Plus Coffee vs Tea; getting the better of the opposition hatchet man; how to influence the referee

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EUROS 2012

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