[FOOTBALL] The Premier League at 25

[Weaver]

As you've probably all heard, today is the 25th birthday of the Premier League.

25,800 goals, 49 different teams and BBC are streaming the first MOTD on their website and via the red button tonight at 10pm for some reason.

Anyway, I suppose I wanted to know your favourite moments of the last 25 years, your favourite players and favourite games.

Videos welcome.

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[Spammer]

Brian Deane scoring the first goal for THE MIGHTY BLADES:

http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Deane.jpg

:cool:

[niko_cee]

Collymore closing in!

And Cantona's comeback game.

Blonde Fowler era was peak football for me. That game later in the season against THE VILLA, and obviously the first Newcastle game.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view1/4369263/wayne-rooney-vs-newcastle-o.gif

http://giant.gfycat.com/JampackedSphericalCougar.gif

https://68.media.tumblr.com/cb29f70cefdd6f162217d470c9d6e745/tumblr_nccs0z0BjF1tp5565o1_500.gif

https://media.giphy.com/media/dthT9dQjwkBNe/giphy.gif

https://i.giphy.com/media/6hnmr3tdVxYqs/giphy-downsized-large.gif

The 8-2 was special too:

https://vimeo.com/203472868

Edit: I had forgotten about those 2 free kick goals with Rosicky not giving a single fuck.

[Offshore Toon]

Tiote's against Arsenal or Cisse against Chelsea are probably the leading contenders for me. I remember exactly where I was for those, where as earlier memories feel like they've been recorded over by YouTube versions.

I've caught a couple of good moments live, too: Titus Bramble scoring a scissor kick against Chelsea to win 1-0 and Robbie Savage getting knocked out by the ref (though we lost).

[Disco]

The era when I gave a shit was all billowy shirts and Man Utd not winning everything was big news, thinking about it brings to mind:

- The Blackburn team that had Wilcox and Ripley out wide.
- Le Tissier scoring into those really shallow nets they used to have at The Dell (I may have imagined this but it's in there true or not).
- The Lightning Seeds GOTM music.
- Alan Shearer being just so ridiculously brilliant.
- 'Europe' being this mystical place where all the teams were so much better and the players seemed like fabled legends that you only really saw at the World Cup or Euros.
- All this being fields etc etc etc
- And weirdly enough this goal from Chris Marsden:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXTFeFRPlbc

[Mike]

I've got this first MOTD on :cool2:

They all have black boots!

[Disco]

What the fuck was the goalie doing there? :D

[7om]

Bergkamp at Newcastle just about sums it up for me.

[Disco]

Also, there's no way Chris White was ever good enough to get away with that hair.

[niko_cee]

The Marsden line might be just about the best thing ever done in football.

[Shindig]

The Europe point is so spot on. I miss landing a quarter final and thinking a British side has done really well to get that far. Apart from Arsenal who seemed to crack the Cup Winners Cup early on.

Laurent Robert's pigeon kick or his two belters against Spurs. :cool: Or that month where Robbie Elliott scored four goals.

[Mike]

What a well spoken man this chapman is.
They're explaining the back pass rule

[Disco]

Was Elland Road being rebuilt or was it just a fucking tip in general?

[mo]

Painted brick wall, no betting logos behind his head.

[Pleb]

I forgot the backward pass rule to the keeper got introduced that season.

Some lolworthy moments in that Wimbledon game against Leeds.

[Disco]

Bit of Barry Davies. :drool:

[Shindig]

I was thinking the other day how I've only ever seen Alan Shearer take an indirect free-kick inside the box.

[Disco]

Was this before or after Sean Bean played for Sheffield Utd?

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gg8Ho56uic

It does look absolutely ridiculous.

[Pleb]

That Giggs shot earlier would of been goal of the century if that United midfielder (Kelchelus(sp?)) wouldn't of stupidly tackled the keeper.

[Disco]

Mike Phelan looks like someone's dad who wandered onto the pitch by accident.

[Pleb]

"Denis, keep playing football."

Top quality coaching there Fergie.

[Mike]

Gareth Southgate just scored a cracker only for Alan Shearer to score one of his own.

This is well good, I'd have been 9, and just getting into football properly.

[Offshore Toon]

I was thinking the other day how I've only ever seen Alan Shearer take an indirect free-kick inside the box.
There was that thunderous strike against Man Utd from outside.

[Disco]

We should have one of these every week.

[Disco]

Shearer referring to himself in the third person. :D

[Offshore Toon]

There was that thunderous strike against Man Utd from outside.
Just seen the ball was rolled into his path. Hmm.

[mo]

We should have one of these every week.

I always enjoyed The Big Match Revisited on ITV3/4/whatever it was. Don't think they show it anymore. I'd definitely watch more old MOTD.

[Reg]

Seeing this on Match of the Day was great:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cjkjoky4Hac

But mainly all the classic Man United v Arsenal games at the peak of their rivalry. The Ruud van Nistelrooy missed penalty was one of the most dramatic moments I can remember.

[niko_cee]

Martin Keown's reaction would probably qualify as a hate crime nowadays.

[Shindig]

Just seen the ball was rolled into his path. Hmm.

His first goal for us was direct outside the box against Wimbledon. Batty lobbed Sullivan in the same game. One week after the Beckham lob. I have never seen any other player score a tee-ed up indirect free kick resulting from a handled back pass.

[Danny]

The Lightning Seeds GOTM music.


:nod:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhGvYcqJRKk

Some of the memorable moments for me

Cantona's chip
Beckham's Lob.
Le Tiss donning everyone early on
Yeboah coming in, smashing in some beauties and fucking off again
Brolin at Leeds and even more lol at Palace.
"I would love it"

[Disco]

http://i.imgur.com/rvQ31i3.png

[Pepe]

Football really was better in the nineties.

[Spoonsky]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgoEWtB3fA0

Was pretty special.

Epic commentary:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcYVs3k3-P0

[Mike]

1992 Gary Speed could definitely work on Game of Thrones defending The Wall
https://fotosports.mediastorehouse.com/p/319/gary-speed-leeds-united-1992-1993-2993341.jpg

[wullie]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/08/24/article-0-0001BCBB00000258-635_634x478.jpg

If it wasn't for our generous kit man, Chelsea would have had to play in their pants and socks and bring in the goals afterwards or get in detention

[Pen]

I miss the 'old times' in football. As others have said, it's probably an age thing, but everything just seemed so much better in football around twenty years ago.

Sincere's trivia thread is a nice escape to those times at times.

[Spammer]

Late 90's/early 00's when I knew basically every player in the Premier League :cool:

I was looking at Watford's squad on Saturday's MOTD and don't think I knew anyone in there.

[Kikó]

I used to love watching Ginola back in the day. Players like him, Merson, le Tissier, Hadji, Carbone, di Canio, Juninho, Vialli, Ravanelli. There was mystique and intrigue. It wasn't over done, everyone wasn't written off within minutes or hours of YouTube compilations.

[Offshore Toon]

Late 90's/early 00's when I knew basically every player in the Premier League :cool:

I was looking at Watford's squad on Saturday's MOTD and don't think I knew anyone in there.
I think it was only a few years ago when the 'who the fuck is he?' moments started creeping in, but these days I don't expect to have heard of a footballer if he's been signed from outside the prem. It doesn't feel like I'm really into football these days - just into Newcastle - though I guess compared to your average nonce I definitely am into football. I imagine the decline is mostly due to not playing FIFA/FM anymore as I've never watched foreign leagues.

[wullie]

When Man Utd signed Martial that was the first I'd ever heard of him, which seems a world away from being able to recite the majority of squads in the division years ago. I think that was the most detached I've been from football generally though, the whole thing of Cov playing in Northampton was still fresh in the mind.

[Ian]

I used to love watching Ginola back in the day. Players like him, Merson, le Tissier, Hadji, Carbone, di Canio, Juninho, Vialli, Ravanelli. There was mystique and intrigue. It wasn't over done, everyone wasn't written off within minutes or hours of YouTube compilations.

I've definitely talked about this a few times before but it definitely used to be that more teams would indulge a flaky twat for that one game in three where he'd do something special. Now you have this obsession with organisation being the key to taking on top, top, top of the market teams.

[wullie]

Jose Dominguez was the best for that. Tiny fella in a massive kit, doing absolutely nothing for ages between spells of looking like the best player in the world for five minutes.

[SvN]

It feels like there were so many memorable moments from the 90s and early 00s (mostly including United for me, to be fair), many of which have been mentioned already.

Cantona's winner against Newcastle
Keegan flopping down after Collymore's winner
"I will love it"
Yeboah's off the bar goals
Di Canio's push on the ref
Fowler telling the ref it wasn't a penalty
Cantona's kung ku kick
And loads more - I could be here all day listing them.

It might be because I'm older, but it feels like there are less memorable moments thesedays. I can't think of many in the past decade other than the obvious winning of trophies. This one stands out:
http://i.imgur.com/4EUC2Hh.png

[Jimmy Floyd]

Most of mine are obviously Chelsea centric and mostly involve our random ambushes of United at Old Trafford before we were good. Abramovich's arrival marked the point when it all became a bit sterile (or more likely the point when I became old enough to be cynical).

As a kid growing up in the mid to late 90s, Manchester United was literally the only show in town and was bigger than the sport in some ways (the hangover from this is how boring they are to hear about now) so getting one over them felt huge.

[SvN]

I remember being terrified of Chelsea before the 1994 FA Cup final becuase Gavin Peacock had scored two identical winners home and away in the league. He then hit the bar at 0-0 in the final.

[Jimmy Floyd]

93/94 United was the best of all Ferguson's teams, for me, Clive. Perfectly balanced. The '99 lot were a bit flash and got lucky.

[phonics]

I barely watch anything that isn't Arsenal these days but fuck me if I can't remember exactly where I was sitting when Zola scored the winner against Stuttgart in the old Cup Winners Cup final.

[SvN]

Likewise, I remember Nayim embarrassing Seaman. We were all trying to copy it the next day on the playground.

[Kikó]

93/94 United was the best of all Ferguson's teams, for me, Clive. Perfectly balanced. The '99 lot were a bit flash and got lucky.

The first bit is a popular opinion amongst united fans. Great team with a real hard edge to them.

I really enjoyed when England used to have proper forwards. Shearer, Cole, Sheringham, Ferdinand, Fowler, Owen, Le Tissier, Armstrong, Sutton, Phillips, Windass.

[bruhnaldo]

The 8-2 was special too:

https://vimeo.com/203472868

One of the best days of my football life. Most of my friends at the time that cared about football supported Arsenal and as some people may remember I have a weird World Classhley Young obsession.... when he hit that curler from outside the box (that he in turn tried to replicate in damn near every appearance ever since) I lost my absolute fucking mind.

Then the goals just kept pouring in and I just remember sitting there giggling like a little school girl lmao

[SvN]

Anderson and Cleverley. The best midfield 2 in the world for about 3 weeks.

[Trancemeister]

Chelsea beating Man utd 5-0 in 99 and Chris Sutton scored his first (and only?) goal.


Favourite goals of the Premier League got to be Yeboah vs Wimbledon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBBnKu5bnCE

[Ian]

93/94 United was the best of all Ferguson's teams, for me, Clive. Perfectly balanced. The '99 lot were a bit flash and got lucky.

I think I'm being objective when I ask: is it luck when you're doing it constantly? That relentlessness is something of it's own and when it brings results as often as it did that year can you keep putting it down to fortune?

It's that which caused a post I remember you making as a van Persie-led United were in the process of overturning a 0-2 deficit against The Villa. Players of a certain age frequently crumbled against a Ferguson United if they got a goal, regardless of the score.

Surely you don't get gifted that? It's earned. And the treble year did a lot to earn it.

This post may be revealing a streak of whatever-United's-RAWK-equivalent in me.

[Lewis]

The best United side was the eighteen months before Ronaldo went.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think I'm being objective when I ask: is it luck when you're doing it constantly? That relentlessness is something of it's own and when it brings results as often as it did that year can you keep putting it down to fortune?

It's that which caused a post I remember you making as a van Persie-led United were in the process of overturning a 0-2 deficit against The Villa. Players of a certain age frequently crumbled against a Ferguson United if they got a goal, regardless of the score.

Surely you don't get gifted that? It's earned. And the treble year did a lot to earn it.

This post may be revealing a streak of whatever-United's-RAWK-equivalent in me.

That quality wasn't luck at all, but the 99 team was a bit flash harry for my liking and streaky compared to the 1994 side. Just a personal preference. Cole/Yorke had an incredible hot streak which took them through that season but they were kind of vulnerable in a way other Ferguson teams (00/01, too) weren't. But the results all worked out, so whatever.

The 2007/8 side were plebs riding on Ronaldo's coat tails, I preferred the post-Ronaldo efforts which were straight up turning water into wine.

[Lewis]

The post-2007 back line was the best club defence since nineties Milan, and the sole reason they managed the Ronald transition and got to more Champions' League finals.

[Adamski]

Is that Neville Vidic Ferdinand Evra?

[Lewis]

Right-back seemed to go through a few (Wes Brown was probably the only one to hold it down for a full year), but those three and Edwin van der Sar managed to scab far more points than late goals and bent officials.

[Shindig]

00's are still memorable from a toon perspective. Keegan's return was great. His departure was fucking terrifying. Dyer and Bowyer crapping on the pitch, Taylor's stupid handball that unfortunately came in Sir Bobby's last game. Cisse's daft six months, Carroll's daft sale, etc.

Oh, and Joe Kinnear.

[John]

1992 Gary Speed could definitely work on Game of Thrones defending The Wall

He'd be better placed attacking it.