Legends

Loathed by Manchester United fans and unloved by Liverpool supporters, Paul Ince never really found a football home. There’s something about that that doesn’t sit right. Ince was arguably the best box-to-box midfielder of his generation and was very successful, particularly in the first half of his career. Ince essentially …

A classic top of the table clash dubbed ‘The Showdown’ changed the course of the 1995/96 Premier League season.  It was the match that effectively killed Newcastle United‘s title hopes and dreams. They were still leading the table with ten games to go following the final whistle, but the sense …

Typically elusive as they are, memories delight in playing tricks on us. So it is that we recall Benito Carbone as being part of the first wave of foreign players to our shores as the Premier League’s new-found riches gave it a cosmopolitan sheen. He was a novelty in that …

Former Tottenham Hotspur and Germany star Jurgen Klinsmann was not in the Premier League for a very long time, but his impact was unquestionable. Some of the legends featured on this site have been one club men, others have been players who moved around before settling at a club and …

Premier League football has been blessed with an abundance of foreign talent since its formation in the early nineties, the cosmopolitan nature of England’s top tier providing supporters with players of vastly differing styles and skills. Amongst the pioneers of a new era in English football was former Arsenal forward …

Modern football is full of players difficult to define to one specific position or role, an era in which defensive strikers and overlapping centre-backs are real positions, concepts which would have been laughed at in the not too distant past. In an ever changing world of tactics and ideas, it …

When one thinks of David Ginola, a few things come to mind: flair, ingenuity, good looks. And goals.  And when a footballer is defined by goals, it is usually because they have scored an abundance of them. And yet Ginola only just about got over a century of them in …

  I do not set my life at a pin’s fee; And, for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself? — William Shakespeare This club gets in your blood. Ask anyone who spent time here, no matter how it ended, chances are they …

Premier League fans will all have their opinion on the division’s greatest ever sides, whether that be any of Manchester United’s succession of winning-machines under Sir Alex Ferguson, a formidable Chelsea during Jose Mourinho’s first spell or the more recent record-breaking achievements of Manchester City and Liverpool. Each of those …

The history of Chelsea football club was forever changed following the takeover of Roman Abramovich almost two decades ago, the Russian’s decision to take ownership of the west London side catapulting the club into the elite of European football. Abramovich’s billionaire backing saw a whole host of marquee names arrive …