If you're eight or ten or twelve and your dad's just recently started taking you to Craven Cottage, you're probably loving life at the moment.

Most of us get into football because of the excitement of it, the hero worship, and the strange thrill of seeing a small round thing manipulated so expertly.

By Chris Wright

Paging Mr M. Al Fayed. This fantastic statue of Carlos 'El Pibe' Valderrama outside the football stadium in his hometown of Santa Marta, Colombia is a lesson in carrying off hero worship with a dash of panache...

I can't believe this 22-foot tall bronze beauty has never invaded my consciousness before.

Liverpool fans showed up at Stamford Bridge on Sunday wearing "Evra is a liar" t-shirts, which stewards made them remove ahead of kick-off.
Despite Luis Suarez admitting he called Evra a name in Spanish and the FA charging the Liverpool striker with directing racial verbal abuse at Evra, Liverpool fans have predictably rolled out their usual hero worship for their player.

Liverpool fans showed up at Stamford Bridge today wearing "Evra is a liar" t-shirts, which stewards made them remove ahead of kick-off.

Despite Luis Suarez admitting he called Evra a name in Spanish and the FA charging the Liverpool striker with directing racial verbal abuse at Evra, Liverpool fans have predictably rolled out their usual hero worship of their player.

What's in a name?

Ducky, Nickspinkboots, Maddy (although BFZ has no clue as to where this man has disappeared) - names that I first saw when I entered BFZ long ago. Strange pen names, I thought to myself. A few weeks later I wrote my first article and have written a few more after that.

You're still the same man you always were; the same yelling, passionate defender. There are still those glorious, goal saving last ditch tackles to look forward to. At least sometimes. And there are still those clearances that get lost in the stadium lights, too, which—let's face it—are hardly a recent development.

By Chris Wright

"Say cheese!"

As you may or may not be aware, the Argentinian national side are in India as we speak to play a friendly against Venezuela, a game which has drawn a sell-out 120,000 crowd to the Yuba Bharati Krirangan Stadium.

As you can probably imagine, the pre-game hype has been largely centred around one man as if you need telling who and the fact that one of the Indian officials was prepared to smuggle his camera into the centre-circle in his pocket for a cheeky snap of said man is a fairly good indication of the hero worship on show in Calcutta at the moment.

Maddy's Note: Ladies and Gents, presenting the latest in BigFourZa's long line of guest authors; Vivek. United fan primarily, but he supports his local team Real Zaragoza as well (at least he plans to when he gets there next month). You can read more of his work over at his blog; Afterthoughts where this post first appeared.

BigFourZa is proud to present its latest addition to the team Wonder Gunner Gurleen. As the smarter ones amongst you might have already figured, she is a HUGE Arsenal fan (how huge you ask? Well, whisper it, but she will even defend Denilson against the Mancs!!). However, if there is one thing she is better at, it is clearly graphic designing.

"Did you, at any time, think the goal would NOT come?"

"Ha ha ha"

- Chicharito reacts to the Everton post-match interviewer's clearly unnecessary question

To say this post has been long, long overdue would be an understatement.

Back when Kenny Dalglish took over the managerial role of Liverpool during early January, many including myself had doubts about his footballing knowledge with 'The King' being out of touch with the game for over a decade. But then it hardly took me 30 minutes of football under him to be convinced to write my first post in over six months.

After 903 minutes for club and country, 732 minutes for Chelsea, Fernando José Torres Sanz scores a goal!

You could watch it here or here just to listen to the commentator!

Now does this mean that he is gonna score a bazillion goals and the premiership is going to be posted to SW6, not really, all it does is finally set that stupid counter to Zero minutes.

Arvi's Note : Imagine a girl fair looking, not morbidly obese sitting all alone by herself, throwing shy-glances all over, in a bar full of gay men. The Scouse situation in Bigfourza is not much different. Slowly forgotten and gradually fading into oblivion.