The top ten things about 1990s football that we miss.

10. Barnsley in the Premier League
What on earth happend here, South Yorkshire side Barnsley somehow managed to win promotion to the premier league in 1997 and pulled off a few shock results. Unfortuanatly for Neil Redfern and co it wasn't quite enough as the Tykes were relegated.


9. Joint Managers
For some reason rather than sacking Roy Evans Liverpool decided it would be a great idea to have dual managers, keeping Evans in his job yet bringing in Gerard Houllier in also. The partnership quite unsuprisingly didn't last very long.


8. The Auto-Windscreens Shield
Yes we know it still exists as the Johnstones Paint Trophy, but, the actual auto windscreens shield (trophy itself) was a work of art ... or maybe not.


7. Bizzare/Local Shirt Sponsorships
These days in the premier league we are treated to multinational companies emblazing their logos across teams shirts, but ack in the 1990s we were treated to sponsors such as Draper Tools for Southampton, Dagenham Motors at West Ham and most strange of them all Classic FM for QPR.


6. Tony Yeboah
Any man who allegedlt put his good form down to English food "Yeboah often cited his good form and prowess while at Leeds was down to his love for Yorkshire Pudding." deserves to be in any top 10







5. Norwich City shocking Europe.
These day the chances of Norwich City winning away at Bayern Munich are pretty slim. But back in 1993 this actually happend.





4. Gazzetta Football Italia


We miss the Sunday kick offs live on channel 4 with a team of James Richardson, Peter Brackley and expert summary from AC Milan 'legend' Luther Blisset, the show even had Elvis Costello as half time panelist, which other football show would do that?





3. FA Cup Songs
The 1990s was also the last time that teams seemed to really have a go at making a 'decent' FA Cup final song. These days players are far too 'big' for any light hearted singing and to us thats a great shame.


2. Colourful Kits


Once again Norwich 1993 also provides us with another highlight on our list their unique paint splash yellow green and blue kit has become a cult kit for fans due to the success the club had that season. Goalkeeper kits also showed some strange experimentation with Newcastles Tyne Bridge strip one that certainly caught the eye.


1. Kevin Keegan


But, for the one thing that we miss the most is Kevin Keegan for his attacking philosphy with Newcastle in the 1990s, its perhaps unfortuanate that his side never quite won the title, but, for the way in which they played we would love to see back today where defensive football tends to be king. It also gives us a good excuse to show a video of his now infamous rant...