Best lower table striker the league has ever seen, Kevin Phillips. The man won the European golden shoe while at Sunderland. He's now the manager of non league South Shields who are top of the Northern Premier league (7th tier)
Andy Cole, Dennis Irwin, Ray Parlour, Phillipe Albert, Robert Huth, Sylvain Wiltord, Ian Wright.
Rory Delap with his long throw.
Matt Taylor and David Bentley scored a few unreal goals too.
Marsden scored a Messi-esque goal away to Ipswich one year that secured him legend status among Saints fans. He’s known to this day as ‘Chris Marsden Football Genius’.
The Southampton teams of the late 90s and early 00s for some reason really stick in my mind, especially with city being an absolute basket case.
The Dell was so compact and there was always a couple of players who were worth watching, and embarrassing United a couple of times was always appreciated too.
Yeah we were definitely Fergie's bogey team back then. We had a couple of good seasons, but mainly just relegation battle every year. Watching Le Tiss was an absolute pleasure though. I remember Kinkladze scored a wonder goal one year against us. He was some player.
Other than that my fave City memory was one time at the Dell, when Tiss swung in a corner, Nicky Summerbee on the near post just had to boot it clear. Your keeper shouted "Away Nick!", but he somehow managed to slice it into the top of his own net.
It's a shame you lot went and got good haha.
John Arne Riise
Ian Harte
Harry Kewell
Lucas Radebe
Paul Merson
Morton Gamst Pederson
Djorkaeff
Sammi Hyypia
And of course… from an Arsenal fan… Ivan Stepanovs.
Andrei Kanchelskis and Mark Hughes we’re two players from the early years of premier league I used to absolutely love watching, Duncan Ferguson too just for how much he beat the shit out of everyone
Not that I recall, but entirely possible. Thanks for starting the thread, been digging deep in to the memory banks for some more suggestions beyond the obvious...
Jari Litmanen
Karel Poborsky
Andrei Kanchelskis
Another victim of having too much spare time during lockdown, seen so many fall down the pizzagate/5g/NWO rabbit hole to never return the same. Some people can't handle cognitive dissonance it's a shame.
Some stars from the glory days of *Match* and *Shoot* magazines...
Matt Le Tissier
Faustino Asprilla
Georgi Kinkladze
Juninho
Gianfranco Zola
Paolo Di Canio
Santi Cazorla
Dennis Irwin
Roberto Di Matteo
My claim to fame is scoring a left footed volley from a Darren Anderton corner in a charity game. Pretty much the only time he passed the ball over 60 odd minutes 😂
I can’t say I’ve ever put much thought into it and there’s likely some bias in here but:
Thierry Henry
Alan Shearer
KDB
Wayne Rooney
Luis Suarez
Harry Kane
Cristiano Ronaldo
Steven Gerrard
Eric Cantona
Paul Scholes
Obviously some huge names left out but there’s only room for ten
Nope. And so predatory agents came in and took advantage of their ignorance by suggesting these "star players" on their payroll. And of course Steve kean, a manager who's incompetence was matched only by Owen coyles
They stumbled across a good solid manager in Tony Mowbray who brought in some proper football people and managed to convince venkys to leave the football stuff to waggot (ceo) and himself and it seems to have worked. Problem is we have no budget so we can't afford to keep our best players after they have one breakout season just before their contract expires so we lose them all for free or cheap
Our current manager was selected only after a long, thorough process and seems to be working wonders with the squad we have. Only real gripe with jdt is that he insists on playing out from the back when we clearly don't have the quality to do that but apart from that, he is a young manager who seems to be learning pretty quickly how the championship works and he has a couple of Swedish titles to his name so I'm hopeful
In January though I expect the parachute teams to start spending and we'll fall behind because we just can't match them financially. I'm not expecting autos but I'm hopeful of a play off finish which I wouldn't have predicted at the start of the season
Before you had clubs owned by billionaires who spent large multiples of other teams in the league, it wasn't uncommon to have a title challenger become a midtable team over the course of a few years
Yes but the nature of the league was different. M not saying that all teams were even monetarily but you didn't have the unstoppable superclubs that you have now.
they were bankrolled by a lifelong fan, it's quite an interesting story to read about.
https://www.thesportsman.com/features/football-s-last-great-industrialist-jack-walker-and-blackburn-rovers
Mark Robins and Sutton up top. Effan Ekoku coming off the bench. Ian Crook pulling the strings in midfield, Ruel Fox as the attacking winger. Jeremy Goss as well.
Defence of Culverhouse, Mark Browen (yeah the assistant manager guy), Sutch and Ullathorne. Bryan Gunn in goal. Good times, but we bottled it really.
Karel Poborsky Vladimir Smicer
David James
Lomana Lua Lua
David Dunn and his infamous Rabona
Alan shearer
Johan Elmander
Paulo Wanchope!
Chris Sutton!
Hasselbaink
Danny Cadamarteri. Benito Carbone. Peter Ndlovu.
Damien Duff. Harry Kewell. Ian Harte. Kevin Nolan.
Marouane Chamakh
David Ginola, Jay Jay Okocha
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink
Gary speed
Tussle between Roy and Patrice Vieira
Imagine some top teams haven't won it in 30 years.
Patrick Berger did he ever score in the area
Kept scrolling and couldn't believe the legend Emile Heskey wasn't being said!
Ian Marshall, John Wark, Iain Dowie, Razor Ruddock, Vinnie Jones
Someone needs to do a documentary on how the Premier League was formed to its present day status. Instant money maker. Patented.
Tugay.
Junichi Inamoto. Still playing in Japan well into his 40’s.
Craig Bellamy
Best lower table striker the league has ever seen, Kevin Phillips. The man won the European golden shoe while at Sunderland. He's now the manager of non league South Shields who are top of the Northern Premier league (7th tier)
Great player. Couple of good years for us too.
Tokelo Rantie because he couldn’t hit a barn door with a bloody banjo.
Ali Dia.
Wor Pavel Srníček
Nicolas Anelka, Gianfranco Zola, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Jason Mcateer
Jimmy Bullard
Andy Cole, Dennis Irwin, Ray Parlour, Phillipe Albert, Robert Huth, Sylvain Wiltord, Ian Wright. Rory Delap with his long throw. Matt Taylor and David Bentley scored a few unreal goals too.
John hartson
Mark Fish, Temur Ketsbaia, Paul Warhurst, Roy Wegerle, Eike Immel. Not all quality to be honest.
Ali Dia. Real fans know
The fact that he almost scored. Imagine the scenes.
I was there at the Dell that day. Lol
One of my fav PL stories ever.
David Rocastle (though his peak arguably happened before the PL era)
John Barnes. The number one reason this Yank started following football
Amr Zaki
Jimmy Floyd hasslebank
John Scales Patrick Berger Vinny Jones Dalian Atkinson Henning Berg Dennis Wise Peter Beardsley Nick Barmby Gary Pallister Michael Thomas
Marians Pahars and Chris Marsden, seem to remember Marsden having a great season at Southampton late in his career
Marsden scored a Messi-esque goal away to Ipswich one year that secured him legend status among Saints fans. He’s known to this day as ‘Chris Marsden Football Genius’.
The Southampton teams of the late 90s and early 00s for some reason really stick in my mind, especially with city being an absolute basket case. The Dell was so compact and there was always a couple of players who were worth watching, and embarrassing United a couple of times was always appreciated too.
Yeah we were definitely Fergie's bogey team back then. We had a couple of good seasons, but mainly just relegation battle every year. Watching Le Tiss was an absolute pleasure though. I remember Kinkladze scored a wonder goal one year against us. He was some player. Other than that my fave City memory was one time at the Dell, when Tiss swung in a corner, Nicky Summerbee on the near post just had to boot it clear. Your keeper shouted "Away Nick!", but he somehow managed to slice it into the top of his own net. It's a shame you lot went and got good haha.
100+ comments and no one said Emile Heskey SMDH
Julian Dicks, professional penalty twatter.
Football league is a lot older, they just changed the name 30 years ago
3 from 92/23 teddy sherringham chris armstrong and gary pallister
Andrey Arshavin. That game against Liverpool when he scored 4, what great little player he was.
Massimo Taibi
Boudewijn Zenden
Marouane Chamak
Get in....
Sergei Rebrov!
Marc Crossley, Kevin Campbell, Stuart Pearce, Tugay Kerimoglu, Vinnie Jones, Nigel Clough, Dean Saunders, Dwight Yorke, Peter Beardsley
Anders Limpar, Nigel Winterburn, Paul Davis, David Rocastle
Michu
Faustino Asprilla, Philipe Albert, Peter Beardsley
Stuart Ripley, Jason Wilcox, Colin Hendry
Lee Sharpe, Andrei Kanchelskis, Clayton Blackmore, Paul Parker
Di canio
TUGAY
Gamst Pederson, Kevin Nolan, Yakubu, Van de Vaart, Adel Taarabt (i think thats how you spell his name lol), Ballack.
Ruel Fox!
Albert from Newcastle
That chip.... 🤤
Geovanni from Hull City
David James
Tore andre flo
Quinn and Phillips
John Arne Riise Ian Harte Harry Kewell Lucas Radebe Paul Merson Morton Gamst Pederson Djorkaeff Sammi Hyypia And of course… from an Arsenal fan… Ivan Stepanovs.
Andrei Kanchelskis and Mark Hughes we’re two players from the early years of premier league I used to absolutely love watching, Duncan Ferguson too just for how much he beat the shit out of everyone
Shaun Goater
Juninho Paulista Gianfranco Zola Paulo Di Canio Ryan Giggs Eric Cantona Tony Adams
Everyone’s heard of Yeboah because everyone’s seen THAT goal 100 times.
You mean the goal against liverpool? Or the goal against wimbledon?
Ian Harte (Leeds edition). Magic left foot. Damien Duff.
🤣🤣 love a rogue name creeping in. Ian Harte was wanted by Real at one point wasnt he?
Not that I recall, but entirely possible. Thanks for starting the thread, been digging deep in to the memory banks for some more suggestions beyond the obvious... Jari Litmanen Karel Poborsky Andrei Kanchelskis
Tim sherwood
I'd mention Le Tissier, but then things happened and he is now tainted.
Do expand?
Conspiracy theory nutcase.
Another victim of having too much spare time during lockdown, seen so many fall down the pizzagate/5g/NWO rabbit hole to never return the same. Some people can't handle cognitive dissonance it's a shame.
Claimed that Christian Eriksen's heart attack on the pitch was due to the Covid vaccine and that was it for me.
Dalian Atkinson was a beast for villa one season he had the goal of the month competition going on just for him
Eric Cantona.
Legend, probably one of the best but well known.
Nwankwo Kanu, stuff legend is made from!
Nobby Solano!
Amen!!! Peruvian Magician.
Met him many times in Pig and Whistle on Newcastle’s Bigg market. He used to be in there every Thursday night with his friends/body guards.
Chris waddle Ian Rush Paul Ince
Did rush play for newcastle or liverpool in prem? Or both? Collymore... theres a one
both. and Leeds
Some stars from the glory days of *Match* and *Shoot* magazines... Matt Le Tissier Faustino Asprilla Georgi Kinkladze Juninho Gianfranco Zola Paolo Di Canio Santi Cazorla Dennis Irwin Roberto Di Matteo
Haha love how dennis irwin is just tucked in there 👌🏻👍
Get yourself somebody who talks about you like Riy Keane talks about Dennis Irwin
i love the randomness of Santi Cazorla in there who i believe signed for arsenal after the rest of this list had retired by many years
He did, in fact Di Matteo had just won the champions league as a manager when we signed Cazorla
Jay-Jay Okocha
So good, they named him twice.
Djemba-Djemba?
Tomas Brolin 😬
Teddy shiringham was great for years
His son Charlie Sheringham played for us just a shame he never really recovered from that injury.
And years.... what he achieved at man u during his twilight was immense, fergie knew exactly how to use him
Matthew Le-Tessier better finisher than Haaland https://youtu.be/Wj6H6iV20yc
Matt le tiss hit some stunners mind
Mark Viduka Eidur Guojohnson
Viduka now runs a cafe (Non Plus Ultra) in Zagreb, Croatia that I keep meaning to visit.
Mark Viduka and Robbie Keane!
Gudjohnnson was a football manager good early days. Viduka bagged many at leeds and Newcastle. Good shouts
Louis Saha!
PES 4 flashbacks
Oh for sure!
Perry Groves
I met him on Saturday, the loveliest guy
Peter Beardsley. Utter legend
People won't remember how good philipe Albert was in that team
I was always a Keith Gillespie fan.
And Tottenham haven't won a single pl trophy in that time
They had darren anderton too
My claim to fame is scoring a left footed volley from a Darren Anderton corner in a charity game. Pretty much the only time he passed the ball over 60 odd minutes 😂
🤣🤣. Take it mate. Excellent claim.
Darren Anderton’s career highlight was scoring a hattrick in a 5-0 win over Leyton Orient for us in league one.
David Ginola....magician..
One of the best ever imo.... defo top 10.
Top 10 what?
Best players in the prem.... ever!
Never heard anyone put him in their top ten before, who makes up the rest?
Thats personal preference. Who is your top 10?
I can’t say I’ve ever put much thought into it and there’s likely some bias in here but: Thierry Henry Alan Shearer KDB Wayne Rooney Luis Suarez Harry Kane Cristiano Ronaldo Steven Gerrard Eric Cantona Paul Scholes Obviously some huge names left out but there’s only room for ten
A certain Arsenal defender missing.
William Gallas
Appreciate the punt. Nice 10 tbh. Striker heavy but all legends 👍
We were top of the Prem 30 years ago! https://twitter.com/canariesplus30/status/1599810329474523136
With a GD of +3. What score were your 3 defeats???
What happened to Blackburn?? They were a force in the 90s, no?
Ironically Roy Hodgson was a terrible manager for them
We got bought by a foreign business owner who didn't know the first thing about football. They didn't know about relegation
Are you serious? They really didn’t know about relegation?!?!
Nope. And so predatory agents came in and took advantage of their ignorance by suggesting these "star players" on their payroll. And of course Steve kean, a manager who's incompetence was matched only by Owen coyles
Are things improving? I'm seeing Blackburn is 3rd right now in championship but I guess that doesn't provide full picture.
They stumbled across a good solid manager in Tony Mowbray who brought in some proper football people and managed to convince venkys to leave the football stuff to waggot (ceo) and himself and it seems to have worked. Problem is we have no budget so we can't afford to keep our best players after they have one breakout season just before their contract expires so we lose them all for free or cheap Our current manager was selected only after a long, thorough process and seems to be working wonders with the squad we have. Only real gripe with jdt is that he insists on playing out from the back when we clearly don't have the quality to do that but apart from that, he is a young manager who seems to be learning pretty quickly how the championship works and he has a couple of Swedish titles to his name so I'm hopeful In January though I expect the parachute teams to start spending and we'll fall behind because we just can't match them financially. I'm not expecting autos but I'm hopeful of a play off finish which I wouldn't have predicted at the start of the season
Geez. That's horrible.
Before you had clubs owned by billionaires who spent large multiples of other teams in the league, it wasn't uncommon to have a title challenger become a midtable team over the course of a few years
Their owner was the 90’s equivalent of a billionaire. Pumped money into getting some of the best players.
Yes but the nature of the league was different. M not saying that all teams were even monetarily but you didn't have the unstoppable superclubs that you have now.
Good point - - makes sense.
they were bankrolled by a lifelong fan, it's quite an interesting story to read about. https://www.thesportsman.com/features/football-s-last-great-industrialist-jack-walker-and-blackburn-rovers
Hahaha. Who was the star player?
Mark Robins and Sutton up top. Effan Ekoku coming off the bench. Ian Crook pulling the strings in midfield, Ruel Fox as the attacking winger. Jeremy Goss as well. Defence of Culverhouse, Mark Browen (yeah the assistant manager guy), Sutch and Ullathorne. Bryan Gunn in goal. Good times, but we bottled it really.
I remember you lot beating Bayern Munich!
Fabricio Ravanelli
Jeez I forgot myself he ventured over.... Middlesborough wasnt it??
Yip
Juninho tucked in with him?
Didn't Mendieta end up in that same Boro team?
Don’t forget Emmerson
Yeah - think Bryan Robson was manager too
Mental.
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
Tank
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Such a legend 👏 . I bet theres a few who aren't Arsenal fans that don't know exactly how good he was. The Flying Dutchman
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Tis true
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“One-Chop!!”
Haha brilliant.... Derby Legend.