Placing Les Ferdinand in the also-ran bracket is to do a disservice to someone who, on his day, was as good as any striker the Premier League has seen
Names of the Nineties
The cult heroes, the legends and the champions: welcome to Names of the Nineties, stirring your nostalgia for a better era of football
While consistency was always a problem for Faustino Asprilla, he remains one of Newcastle’s great entertainers from the era of the Entertainers
Despite his injury problems, Patrick Berger was a true joy of a 1990s footballer. A man with a look that could kill, you could say
He may not have won the trophies that his talent deserved but Alan Shearer remains the most deadly and effective striker in Premier League history
Arriving at a time of great promise at Middlesbrough, Brazilian midfielder Emerson would become a cult hero in a single season at the Cellnet
Saša Ćurčić, a volatile personality and gifted footballer, remains one of the first true instances of the Premier League boom and bust future
Steve Stone was the generator of Forest’s mid-90s revival, helped power the rise of Portsmouth and was very nearly part of a winning England team at Euro 96
A lengthy YouTube session reminiscing over Vinnie Jones’ antics from the 90s deserves to be screened at Leicester Square as much as any of his movies
Daniel Amokachi was an Everton gamble who never quite hit the jackpot but was certainly well worth the punt for his FA Cup heroics alone
If somebody wrote a football version of the Art of War, the first page should show Pearce placing the ball on the spot before his penalty against Spain in ’96
That moutstache. That ponytail. David Seaman was truly iconic. And beyond that, he remains one of English football’s greatest goalkeepers
Le Tissier was an enigma, an instinctive talent who could defy the norm, and he will go down as one of the finest of the first decade of the Premier League
From the concrete estates of south London to the summit of the Premier League, Ian Wright is a man who may belong to the 90s but shall never be forgotten
Roy Keane began the 1990s as a semi-pro footballer in Ireland and ended it as Manchester United’s historic treble-winning captain