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Renford Rejects: The Beano, Gianfranco Zola and the making of a 90s cult classic
28.10.26, 10:27 12 Minute Read
For a generation of football-mad youngsters growing up in the late 1990s, there was something strangely comforting about the Renford Rejects. Here was a football team populated by misfits, fantasists and hopeless dreamers, whose ambition to become sporting superstars bore little resemblance to their actual ability to kick a ball.
They weren't particularly good at football, their matches frequently descended into chaos and their grasp of the game's finer tactical points was questionable at best. Yet that was precisely what made them so appealing, because for those of us whose own footballing exploits were more likely to take place in the school playground than at Old Trafford, the Rejects were a team we could identify with.
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Rich Chamberlain
EditorI grew up on football of the 90s, hearing stories from my dad and elder brother about the glory days of the 80s. In a 20-year writing career, I have written for several magazines and penned books about Coventry City and Euro 96.