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Football kits in the 90s, they just hit differently, didn’t they? The bright colours, the head-spinning patterns, the sleeves so baggy you get lost in them.
30.10.26Features
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.
28.10.26Features
Sometimes our memories can play tricks on us. The Nostalgia Test revisits some of the things we loved from the past and asks a simple question: are they really as good as we remember, or should they be consigned to ancient history?
28.10.26Opinion
Retro football means different things to all of us. For some, it's the cult hero they watched from the terraces. For others, it's the football shirt they wore until it fell apart, the television programme they watched religiously or the video game that swallowed entire weekends.
27.10.26Features
The original Merlin Premier League album cost just 50p, with packets of six stickers selling for 22p. But completing the 479-sticker collection was another matter entirely.
26.10.26Opinion
You have to be a bit special as a footballer to have one particular piece of skill named after you.
24.10.26Opinion
Football shirts are such a key part of retro football culture. They instantly take us back to a bygone time – and many look absolutely bloody beautiful. Here, we’ve picked out four classics from those oft-cited purveyors of stunning football shirts – Fiorentina.
23.10.26Features
It’s 17 October 1993, France are locked at 1-1 with Bulgaria in a crucial World Cup qualifier. The Paris crowd knows that Eric Cantona’s 31st minute goal (even though it had been cancelled out by an Emil Kostadinov strike six minutes later) would be enough to see their nation qualify for the 1994 World Cup.
22.10.26Opinion
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