90’s Football Hall of Fame

Former Leeds United, Coventry City and Liverpool midfielder Gary McAllister is the latest inductee into the 90’s Football Hall of Fame. For a player who perpetually looked as if he was 50-years-old throughout his career, the Scottish playmaker played with the zeal and spirit of a youngster kicking a ball …

Former Man United, Aston Villa and Man City goalie Peter Schmeichel is the latest inductee into the 90’s Football Hall of Fame.  Considered by many to be the greatest goalkeeper to have ever played the game of football, the Danish shot stopper spent eight glorious years with Manchester United, where …

The scene of Faustino Asprilla’s arrival to English football is iconic stuff.

Our next stop on the nineties football nostalgia train takes us to David Ginola, the French idol who dazzled English crowds with his tremendous skill and devilish good looks. The Premier League, and indeed English football as a whole, had never seen the likes of him before – a footballer …

Paul McGrath was a football legend for Manchester United, Aston Villa and Ireland during the eighties and nineties. The Irishman, who could perform excellently in almost any position that a manager asked him to, was a star performer at two World Cups, an FA Cup winner, won two League Cups …

Paul Ince was one of the best Premier League midfielders of his generation, and yet he is oddly not remembered as such by the footballing world. After coming through the youth ranks at West Ham, Ince spent six glorious years at Manchester United, where he helped push the club to …

Jurgen Klinsmann arrived in the Premier League in 1994 as the first superstar foreign signing in English football, and quickly made an impact with Tottenham Hotspur. The German forward, who also starred for VfB Stuttgart, Inter Milan, Monaco and Bayern Munich during his career, played a major role in his …

Dalian Atkinson was an Aston Villa cult hero in the early to mid-nineties, scoring a spectacular Goal of the Season winner in the inaugural Premier League season.  The English striker never fulfilled his true potential, but he did secure his legacy with a hat-trick of goals in the semi-finals and …

Dan Petrescu was a Chelsea legend in the latter half of the nineties for his relentless attacking and knack for scoring brilliant goals – despite nominally being a defender. The Romanian was a marauding right-back long before it became a well-established trend in the Premier League, regularly making runs in …

Juninho was one of the most talented playmakers of the mid-90’s, won a World Cup with Brazil, and would have easily fitted into some of the best teams in football – so how did he end up at Middlesbrough? The Brazilian, considered to be the next up-and-coming superstar in his …