On the 8th May 1991, the San Siro Stadium in Milan, Italy, hosted the first leg of the UEFA Cup final which pitted two formidable Serie A teams against each other in the form of Inter Milan and AS Roma. The stage was set for an epic battle that would determine the champion of one […]
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“What if?” is a popular question among football fans. What if that shot had gone in off the post instead of going out for a goal-kick? What if Stuart Pearce and Chris Waddle had put away their pens at Italia ’90? What if a teenage Diego Maradona had signed for Sheffield United instead of Alex […]
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The flying Dutchman, Dennis Bergkamp and his fellow countryman Wim Jonk bagged thirteen goals between them throughout the 1993/94 UEFA Cup run for Inter Milan. Dennis was joint top goal scorer with eight goals but Wim scored the decisive goal in the final to secure a second UEFA Cup title for the Nerazzurri. Watch the […]
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On the 16th December in 1899 a group of English expats led by Herbert Kilpin and Alfred Edwards formed the Milan Cricket and Football Club who are now more commonly known as the mighty AC Milan! The Rossoneri went on to become Italy’s most successful club as well one of the World’s most elite teams […]
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Mention George Weah’s name to anyone of a certain vintage and it conjures up a quintessentially 90s image: An impossibly hirsute James Richardson, sitting next to an impossibly large pastry in an Italian café, reading headlines from an impossibly larger bright pink newspaper. Weah was a mainstay of Channel 4’s Italian football extravaganza. Whether it […]
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Did you grow up watching Gazzetta Football Italia, Saint & Grievsie and Football Fantasy League with Skinner and Baddiel? If so, then this is the quiz for you. You’ve got 12 minutes to match up 100 footballers from the 1990’s based on the team they played for and the nationality they represented. Test your 90’s […]
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Just 102 players across the four biggest leagues in Europe (England, Spain, Italy and Germany) managed to bag 20+ goals in a season during the 90’s. How many can you name? Take the test here
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Following on from previous blogs featuring the high-scoring games in the English Premier and Football Leagues, we take a look at another collection of goal-crazy matches, this time in the main ‘super-heavyweight’ European leagues of Germany’s Bundesliga, Spain’s La Liga, and Italy’s Serie A from the early 90’s to the mid 2000s. Just after Christmas […]
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Marcel ‘The Rock’ Desailly scores the final goal for AC Milan against Barcelona in the 1994 European Cup Final to help give Fabio Capello’s Rossoneri an emphatic 4-0 scoreline in the Olympic Stadium, Athens. A first half brace from Daniele Massaro and one from Dejan Savićević had already put Milano three goals to the good. […]
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In Germany, his nickname was ‘flipper’ which is translated in deutsch is pinball machine due to his quick feet and boundless energy on the pitch. When he arrived in England, the tabloid newspapers labelled him ‘Der Dive Bomber’ for his reputation for being theatrical under a challenge but it wasn’t long before he won over […]
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