Cult Classics: Five unforgettable 90s football teams
For many football fans of a certain vintage, the nineties was an unrivalled time in the history of the sport and an era that evokes nostalgia like few others.
The start of the decade saw the formations of the Premier League and the Champions League, two competitions that would snowball into sporting behemoths, the former bringing unprecedented change to English football and the latter revolutionising continental competition.
Throughout the nineties it was Italian football that largely reigned supreme as the world’s finest domestic division, their superpower clubs compiling an eclectic collection of the game’s greats, breaking the world transfer record on six occasions and being the home of six Ballon d’Or winners.
The nineties was a world of small players in oversized shirts, a pre-YouTube time when new signings genuinely brought intrigue and footballers often humiliated themselves with bizarre photoshoots. When else would Sheffield Wednesday force their Italian strikeforce into sharing a bite of an uncooked pizza on the Hillsborough pitch, or Andy Cole inexplicably pose in a leather jacket – incorporated with Pepsi arm sponsors – whilst wielding a machine gun"
The greatest part of the decade, however, was a collection of teams that left an indelible mark on the game and we’ve decided to look at some of those remembered most fondly.
Here are five unforgettable 90s football teams:
Ajax
Ajax had made their name as one of Europe’s...
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