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A new book from @pitchpublishing by @rob_fletcher_ about 1994/95, the Premier League’s most dramatic season. Out Summer 2024.
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Here it is. The front cover.
A book about an incredible season full of sleaze, scandal and some football.
Tons going on and I almost didn’t have enough words to capture it all.
If you fancy it, pre-order now. Out in the wild on August 12th.
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Chris Waddle. No mullet. Adidas equipment era Marseille. That trademark dribble. And those boots.
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Nothing sensible about this game. A load of tiny little players floating around the pitch. Running at speed. Playing the ball all over the place. And it was amazing. How many people started their computer game obsession with this classic?
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Rai. Celebrating São Paulo’s win in the Intercontinental Cup. A real super team. The number 10 was the star of the side. Eventually got his European move to PSG in 1993.
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So who else had one of these? And let’s be honest, how many of you didn’t keep it up to date past the first weekend? Lost a team? Or your mum chucked it in the bin? Yeah. Me too.
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What a squad. Yugoslavia. Under 21s. Bursting with talent. One of the best groups of players ever. A true golden generation. Never got to fulfil their potential at Euro ‘92 because of huge political upheaval and civil war.
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First Division 1991/92. The final standings. The end of an era. Where did your team finish before the Premier League was born?
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The first edition of the greatest computer game of all time. What a time to be alive. Long live Championship Manager.
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So, it’s a new season. How else are you going to start than with a new sticker album? One of the best ever.
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Gary Speed. 1992. A young star for Leeds and Wales. Legend.
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Van Basten. Iconic number 9. Lotto kit. Diadora boots. Love it.
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The younger Laudrup. Played for some big clubs in the early 90s. A fantastic talent. Great dribbler. Reached his peak once he found a home in Scotland.
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Some teams were built different. But no one was built like this Milan squad. What an image. This is what greatness looked like in 1992.
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A thread of goalkeepers.
Just all the goalkeepers.
In their fancy 90s goalkeeper shirts.
Doing the goalkeeping.
Enjoy 🧵
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Baggio. Di Canio. Vialli. Platt. Moller. Casiraghi. Ravanelli. Not sure where the other four players in the Juve line up would fit in…
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No sponsor. No names. An absolutely classic shirt. Great team too. Rangers in 1992/93.
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Vladimir Jugovic. Top class midfielder. Felt like a real part of those Football Italia years. One of the best of his generation. Probably underrated now. Just a top, top player.
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The final table of the first Premier League season. What are your memories of that season? Where did your team finish?
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Legends. A team of legends. That shirt. Those stripes. Just iconic.
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Paolo Maldini. 1992. He was 24 years old. A mainstay of the side. He’d played 267 times for AC Milan by that point. Incredible. And he was one of the coolest footballers around. The stare. The hands on hips. Legend.
Number 3 for the 1992 XI.
Book launch on Monday!
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What an image. That man Ruud Gullit.
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Brian Laudrup. In the banned Fiorentina shirt. The kit and the season didn’t go well for Fiorentina.
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That man Ally McCoist with his shiny European Golden Shoe.
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Quality 90s footy show ‘Standing Room Only’ visits
#Ajax
to find out about their pioneering youth setup.
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Number 9 and number 10. Van Basten and Donadoni. Classic kit. No names on the shirts. Legends of the game.
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The hair. The long sleeves. The classic sponsor. The legend. Chris Waddle.
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Kit launch. Rangers in 1992. McCoist. Goram. Gough. Three Ibrox legends. Those adidas equipment kits are classics.
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FourFourTwo launched in 1994. The ‘quite remarkable football magazine’ featured a range of columns, long form articles and football history.
1994/95 was one of the most chaotic and controversial in Premier League history.
Here is how
@FourFourTwo
covered it.
🧵 THREAD
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Ian Rush celebrating a Welsh victory over Germany. Always enjoy seeing a footballer after swapping shirts. Creates a weird image in the mind. Let’s see some other famous shirt swaps. 90s only please!
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Premier League 1992/93. Home shirts. A boom in football. A time for shirts to take on all kinds of weird and wonderful patterns. You’re buying one. Which one is it?
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The mullet had gone. The dribbling skill remained. Chris Waddle returned to England in 1992 at Sheffield Wednesday. He won Football Writers’ Player of the Year and appeared in two domestic cup finals. Wizard.
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Gary Pallister. One of the most underrated English defenders ever. An absolute master on the ball, could stop an attack in a heartbeat and was a rock for Boro and United. England caps should’ve followed in their droves. Class act.
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Massively underrated. David Platt was a great player. Came to world attention at Italia ‘90. Made his mark as a goal scoring midfielder. Would fit very well in the modern game.
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Yugoslavia missed out on Euro ‘92. And so did an incredible generation of players. They found homes at a number of top European clubs. Stars.
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A superstar striker. One of the best number 9s of all time. Ballon D’Or winner in 1992. Pace. Skill. Power. Marco Van Basten had it all. An all time great.
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Rangers. Champions League 1992/93. Wearing classic sponsorless adidas equipment shirts. Could’ve gone all the way.
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In 1992 a young English striker signed for Blackburn Rovers. A record transfer. The new Premier League. Still the goal scoring record holder. Alan Shearer. Legend.
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Sampdoria 1992. A legendary team. An away shirt just as stylish as their iconic home. Lost out to Barcelona at Wembley and a Ronald Koeman thunderbolt.
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Paul McStay in a classic Umbro kit. Lovely details in the shirt. Sponsor less. Numbers on the shorts could be from 30 years earlier.
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Tony Yeboah. Eintracht Frankfurt. A proper goal scorer.
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That man Vialli. For a very short time in 1992 he was the most expensive player in the world. That Kappa Juve kit is a classic.
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1992. The most expensive player in the world. Lentini at Milan. What a kit.
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Who didn’t love the map of Italy on Gazzetta Football Italia? Trying to work out where your favourite team played. Who did you follow?
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Ian Rush in a sublime Umbro Wales kit. Shame he didn’t get to show his talents in a major tournament. An incredible striker.
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Just two legends in one image. Two players who broke the world transfer record. Baggio. Vialli. Different styles. Both greats.
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Number 6. The Captain of the 1992 XI. Need I say more about arguably the greatest defender of all time.
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Yugoslavia at Euro 1992. What might have been. Some world class stars on the pitch. Players became a huge part of teams across the big leagues.
@OldSchoolPanini
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1992 saw the birth of Gazetta Football Italia on Channel 4. It became an absolute must see on a Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon.
The league had the ultimate cast of superstars: Baggio, Gascoigne, Gullit, Vialli, Van Basten, Papin and more…
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Bit of Rushie in green. Double figures for goals in the first three Premier League seasons. Partnered Fowler during his emergence. Legend.
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Gheorghe Hagi. The Commander. The King. The Maradona of the Carpathians. A unique talent. Played for Barca and Real with a spell at Brescia squeezed in between.
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Dejan Savićević. What a player. A star in Belgrade. A European cup winner. Part of a brilliant national side. And in 1992 joined a group of superstars in Milan.
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Leeds United in the Champions League. At the Camp Nou. But they didn’t play Barcelona. Who knows the story?
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Almost joined Manchester United. Nearly became one of England’s first choice strikers. Still, had a good goalscoring record and scored some
quality goals.
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Trevor Francis. A legend of the game.
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The first Brazilian to tear it up in Eindhoven and then make the trip to the Nou Camp. What a player. Romario de Souza Faria. Search for some of his goals. You won’t regret it.
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Walk out jackets. Incredible. Look even better on Ruud Gullit. And with the Scudetto shield. Let’s see some other classics. Someone will definitely share Admiral Leeds jackets. But please. Make it 90s if you can.
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Copies have arrived! The book is now a reality. A fully printed real thing. It looks quality as well.
Amazed that I have a book that will be out in the world soon!
Big thanks to everyone who has shared posts to help promote the book or has already bought it. Much appreciated.
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Introduction:
Here are four shirts from 1992.
Task:
Reply with a shirt (classic or catastrophic) from 1992.
Outcome:
A thread full of weird and wonderful shirts.
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In a time long, long ago. Before the internet made information for all. There was this. The titan of the football world. The GOAT. Rothman’s Football Yearbook.
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11 days until the book is out so let’s talk about number 11s. First up is Brian Laudrup.
Who wore the number 11 shirt for your club in 1992?
Who starred on the continent with 11 on their back?
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Scotland at Euro ‘92. Ready to take on the Netherlands. Some quality players in this line up. And Ally McCoist wearing number 5.
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Petition to allow clubs to have their own fonts for numbers and name sets.
Who’s signing it?
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Tim Flowers. A quality keeper for Blackburn. One of the key reasons they were such a solid side and won the title.
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1992/93 Premier League home shirts.
Chatted about some of these on
@PlayedForKuwait
which you can still catch up on!
Which is the most memorable shirt from that season?
📷
@classicshirts
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David James in an iconic adidas goalkeeper kit from 94/95. A time for dazzling strikers with some outrageous and iconic designs.
What was your keeper wearing in 94/95?
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Thomas Doll in a classic
#Umbro
Lazio shirt. Another star German who plied his trade in the best league of the 90s.
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Who doesn’t love a goal of the season contest?
1994/95 was one of the best ever.
Who are you voting for?
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This week I will mostly be writing about Football Italia. Endless Serie A tweets coming up.
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Another tragic loss. Chris Bart-Williams.
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They just don’t do kit launches like they used to. I’d love to know how they got Fergie to agree to this. And the shirt? Still a classic to this day.
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The most underrated player in Blackburn’s title victory of 1994/95!
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Goalkeeping royalty
@NevilleSouthall
in classic mismatched early 90s kit. That Umbro GK shirt would’ve been enough to put off any top striker. And the shorts? Impossibly short obviously.
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George Weah. Could dribble. Had pace. Could head it. Had skill. Could finish. Had that bit extra. A new style number 9.
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Roberto Mancini. That gaping collar. Scudetto patch. Sellotape for an armband. Iconic sponsor. Absolute classic.
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Bring back footy mags. 75p for a weekly look at what was going on. Yeah the internet is great. But these were class.
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Rijkaard. 1992/93. Final season in Milan. Defender turned midfielder. Could enforce but played with style. Part of the elite Dutch triumvirate. Won two league titles and two European Cups before returning home to Ajax. Legend.
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5 days until book release day. So now we need a number 5. So let’s go for Franck Sauzee. Won the European Cup with Marseille in 1992/93. Loved a goal from midfield.
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Carlos Navarro Montoya. And that goalkeeper shirt. Definitely didn’t get that out of the template catalogue.
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Just me. Saying hello to my book in a real life shop for the first time. Waterstones Trafford Centre. You’ve got taste. Thanks
@PitchPublishing
for getting the book out there.
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What a player. Paul McGrath got even better when he joined Aston Villa. A truly amazing defender. Won PFA Players’ Player of the Year in 1993. Legend.
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94/95 away shirts. Watched so many games to research the book. The best bit of the process. Makes you realise how many amazing shirts there were that season.
What are you picking for £26.99 from a mail order catalogue?
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Dion Dublin on his first day at school/signing for Manchester United. Awful luck with injury. Fergie had high hopes.
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Andy Cole on loan at Bristol City before his breakthrough move to Newcastle. One of the best strikers of the 90s. Amazing goal scorer. Be worth a fortune in the modern game.
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Found this gem from BBC footy show Standing Room Only. The boom in gaming wasn’t far away.
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Just a couple of pics of
@alanshearer
getting his picture taken after his recording breaking move to Blackburn. And he scored goals. Lots of goals.
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Claudio Caniggia took his long, flowing locks to Roma in 1992. And he didn’t play many games. Have a quick google to see why. Looked pretty cool in this classic adidas Roma shirt though.
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1992. Milan in the Champions League. Sponsorless shirts. Black shorts. Black socks. Massive CL patch. There’s an effortless cool about them.
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Colin Hendry in a unique version of the Blackburn home shirt for one game only. Coors replaced McEwan’s on the front of the shirt. To be fair - Hendry can wear whatever sponsor he wants. Hard as nails that man.
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Powerful. Aggressive. Creative. Prolific. Wand of a left foot.
8 days to book launch. Who else would wear the number 8 other than Hristo Stoichkov? Legend in Barcelona and Bulgaria.
Not sure anyone can find a number 8 to better the brilliant Bulgarian.
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The brilliant Ugo Ehiogu. A mountain of a defender. That Villa kit was pretty special too.
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What a player. What a legend. Decked out in a classic QPR kit he could still boss a midfield battle. Even got involved with Football Italia as it took off on Channel 4.
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The greatest goal scorer in Premier League history…
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Gheorghe Hagi in a pretty cool Romania kit. Adidas trefoil. National flag colours on the three stripes. Also looks like he’s wearing his older brother’s shirt. Decent player though.
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Karl-Heinz Riedle. A proper striker. Worked the box and was an absolute demon in the air. Turned out for Lazio in the early 90s in between stints in the Bundesliga.
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9 days to release date. Need a striker. A goal scorer. Someone to lead the line. So let’s go for a back to back winner of the European Golden Shoe.
Ally McCoist. 34 league goals in 91/92 and again in 92/93.
Who would be your number 9 from ‘92?
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New football kits are one of the best parts of pre-season. Here are the home shirts for 1994/95. Some iconic designs and sponsors here.
Where do these rank for your team?
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Defence meets attack. Kohler vs Van Basten. Milan v Juve.
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Before his move to Inter in 1992, Matthias Sammer helped Stuttgart become the first champions of the reunified Germany. Another iconic shirt from this era as well.
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