16 Things We Loved About 90s Football

Zidane, Deschamps, Desailly, Thuram, Weah, Gascoigne, Platt, Ince, Batistuta, Crespo, Boban, Bokšić, Nedvěd, Klinsmann, Bergkamp, Davids, Gullit...

OK, so what Keys and Gray did was completely wrong but those early days of Sky Sports changed the game forever. What's that, live football on Mondays?

Klinsmann at Spurs, Juninho at Middlesbrough, Yeboah at Leeds. When your club got a foreign player it was considered a bit flash.

We miss the musings of Barry Davies, Des Lynam, Jimmy Hill, Trevor Brooking, Peter Brackley and Bob Wilson. At least we still have Motty, sometimes.

Navigating your way through pages on your TV to check the latest scores. It was the Onefootball of its day.

Ince, Adams, Beckham, Scholes, Shearer, Sheringham, McManaman, Fowler, Wright, Neville, Owen, & Rio and Les Ferdinand. All utter failures.

Bergkamp, Blind, Bogarde, Davids, Frank and Ronald de Boer, Finidi, Kanu, Kluivert, Litmanen, Overmars, Reiziger, van der Sar, Seedorf. Say no more.

Until 1997 only champions of domestic leagues could qualify. Imagine that, only champions in a CHAMPIONS League?

There was no easy access to highlight videos and goals so you'd have to fork out* £14.99 for a video in Woolworths. *Beg your mum

You were able to buy players all year round until the final weeks of the season, which meant no overpriced panic buys on 'deadline day'.

Not exclusively a 90s thing but as a kid there was nothing better than running home with a rare Arsenal shiny or swapping your 8th Peter Fear.

Before each episode of Match of the Day from 1990-1995 the BBC advised viewers not to watch the programme whilst using illegal substances.

Was anything more exciting than watching the brand new Match of the Day intro at the start of every season? We lost many a Saturday night to that show

Imagine a time when it didn't look like Neil Buchanan had done an Art Attack on your footie boots. We're looking at you, Warrior Football.

You'd cringe now at Messi, Robben or Rooney holding headphones to their ears whilst belting out a C-note but if it's good enough for Mark Hughes...

Face it, you weren't a heartthrob in the 90s if you didn't have curtains, just ask Jamie Redknapp, Becks, Mark Bosnich, Ian Walker, et. al.