90's FOOTBALL

hello

if there is one topic i can talk about endlessly, it's 90s football and 90s footballers.
this was a great time for football and a time where i couldnt go a day without avidly researching or following some kind of sport, aswell as Arsenal FC. pre-internet of course, all football gossip was from the back pages of shitty tabloids and occasionally on news broadcasts (i remember hearing about Arsenal signing David Platt on the lunchtime news - which would never happen now). Arsenal had a tendency - along with most other teams - to buy shitty British players in a 50/50 ratio to good foreigners. The advent of the Premier League and all of it's money took a good few years to seep down through the ranks and into the transfer kitty even for bigger clubs, who still relied on grooming what talent they had and transferring between English teams. Although the foreign players in the league were often decent, no major buys took place until later in the decade. Because of this, players who might be overlooked were they around now actually excelled for lesser clubs. Kinkladze for Man City (youtube his goals for insane skill) and of course Junhinho for Middlesbrough were both incredible players, but not major signings in relation to what Torres or Tevez were/are today.

(my time in the library is up now, so I will finish this ASAP)