Why David Silva the revolutionary was the Premier League’s greatest of all time
The precise date of the phenomenon is unknown but almost certainly the opposition was Aston Villa and for sure it was late autumn going…
Legends
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Legends
Noughties Nines: Diego Milito – Il Principe
Inter Milan’s treble success was arguably the pinnacle of Jose Mourinho’s management. Even in a coaching career of such achievement, his transformation of the…
Defensive Rocks: Sami Hyypia – A Finnish man mountain
Sami Hyypia’s arrival at Liverpool did little to capture the imagination of the club’s fanbase. Arriving from the Eredivisie for a modest fee, little…
Midfield Generals: Patrick Vieira – A Gunners great
Arsenal’s teams across the turn of the millennium were among some of the finest in the club’s history, a side who on occasion produced…
Noughties Nines: Mark Viduka – Australia’s finest forward
Mark Viduka might not be the first forward that springs to mind when discussing the Premier League’s finest, but as the nineties turned into…
Iconic Performances: The ‘Stevie G’ FA Cup final
All across the world there are budding young footballers with dreams of reaching the very top, fanatical fans who fantasise about one day representing…
Iconic Seasons: Juan Mata’s sublime 2012/13 campaign for Chelsea
Juan Mata might just be the most likeable man in modern football. The ever-charming Spaniard with a cultured left foot and pleasant personality has…
Iconic Performances: When R9 destroyed Man United and got clapped off at Old Trafford
The UEFA Champions League has delivered some special nights throughout the course of its illustrious history, a stage in which the world’s finest footballers…
Iconic Duos: Heskey and Owen – Liverpool’s ‘big man, small man’ combo that inspired a cup treble
Liverpool were on the rise under Gerard Houllier as the new millennium arrived, the Frenchman having overseen an overhaul of a team struggling to…
Iconic Duos: Gerrard and Torres – Liverpool’s lethal pairing
For much of Steven Gerrard’s career at Liverpool he carried the weight of expectation for his childhood club. Fine footballers came and went as…
Midfield Magicians: Zvonimir Boban – Milan legend and the leader of Croatia’s cult side
Zvonimir Boban’s career saw the midfielder make waves for both club and country, though perhaps his most famous kick came without a ball on…
Iconic Duos: The Fantasista and The Predator, Del Piero & Inzaghi
Football’s finest partnerships are often a recipe of several ingredients. The first, and most crucial, is that the two talents compliment each other’s game…
90s Hitmen: A Brazilian finisher supreme, Sonny Anderson
The greatest era in the history of Olympique Lyonnais came in the first decade of the new millennium, a period of unprecedented domestic dominance…
90s Hitmen: Hristo Stoichkov – Barcelona’s Balkan bull
The art of unpredictability can be a potent weapon for forwards. Hristo Stoichkov had it in abundance. Stoichkov was so utterly unpredictable that those…
90s Hitmen: Fabrizio Ravanelli – The White Feather
The nineties was a strange time for European football, with the emergence of the Premier League as a domestic destination of choice leading to…
90s Hitmen: The King of France’s cursed generation, Jean-Pierre Papin
Until the coronation of Lionel Messi as winner of the 2021 Ballon d’Or, just one footballer had ever claimed world football’s greatest individual honour…
90s Hitmen: A unique and unpredictable trailblazer, Nwankwo Kanu
African football’s finest are amongst the most celebrated names in the modern game, with almost each of Europe’s elite possessing talent from the continent.…
Remembering the Man United XI who triumphed over Chelsea to win the Champions League in Russia
Manchester United’s dramatic victory in the Nou Camp in 1999 is rightly remembered as the defining moment of Sir Alex Ferguson’s tenure, yet his…