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Our latest rewind and look back at the Premier League archives takes us to the 1995/96 season, a campaign which began with Alan Hansen’s exclamation that ‘you can’t win anything with kids’ – an iconic line that would come back to haunt the Match of the Day pundit in spectacular …

Goals win games and points win prizes, but which Premier League stars have been the most valuable to their sides throughout the league’s history? This season has seen several players develop a habit for scoring crucial winning goals, with Crystal Palace’s Jordan Ayew and Liverpool’s Sadio Mane leading the way …

The suspension of elite level football is beginning to take its toll on the avid football fan, but with a lack of contemporary action to feast upon, what better time than to take a nostalgic trip down memory lane. We’re rewinding back to the early days of the Premier League …

Manchester City’s relentless dominance at the top of the Premier League has seen points records shatter over the past two seasons, the all-conquering Etihad side becoming the first ever to reach a century of points two seasons ago. Pep Guardiola’s team have dragged up the champion’s point average significantly by …

The Premier League’s ‘100 club’ is one in which only the division’s elite gain exclusive membership, with only 28 players in Premier League history having scoring a century of top flight goals. Rarer still, is a list of players capable of both scoring and creating prolifically, with this list celebrating …

Ah, the ‘one season wonder’. Players who lit up the Premier League for a brief yet brilliant period, before seeing their form drastically dip before falling off the proverbial cliff face. There’s something quite enchanting about a one season wonder – burning brightly before fading swiftly back into obscurity – …

Arsenal’s Pierre-Emerick Aubemeyang has enjoyed another prolific season at the Emirates and trails only Leicester’s Jamie Vardy in the race for the Premier League’s Golden Boot. The Gabon international won the award last season in the division’s first three-way tie for two decades, finishing as the Premier League’s leading scorer …

The Premier League is fast approaching three decades since its inception in the early nineties, with English football’s landscape having changed significantly over the course of the division’s existence. Football’s finances continue to boom as fees and figures soar season upon season, whilst the league’s foreign influx has raised the …

The greatest individual accolade in football, the Ballon d’Or recognises the best footballer in the world each year, with many of the game’s greats having been awarded the prestigious honour. The annual shortlist is often a collection of footballing royalty, but throughout the years we have witnessed some questionable names …

Mark Hughes was one of the greatest players to put on the number 10 shirt for Manchester United, winning multiple league titles and cups and scoring twice in a European final – but is the Welsh legend one of the most underappreciated players of his time? In the latest episode …