When I first started watching English football, most clubs favoured the 2-5-6-3 defence, but a few clubs tended towards having 4 at centre-back and 6...
1993-94 Premier League
While a 9-10 strikeforce in front of a 7-8-4-11 midfield is considered to be ‘the’ British numbering tradition – no doubt helped by the national...
When the Premier League introduced squad numbers, there was just one team who lined up on the opening weekend in August 1993 with all of...
Since his football career ended, Francis Benali has had a second life raising money for cancer research, undertaking a series of gruelling runs around the...
Liverpool were in a state of flux when squad numbers came into being in the summer of 1993. It was only three years since the...
The 1993-94 season had a sense of freshness to it from a Chelsea point of view. While the previous campaign had seen them revert back...
Swindon Town’s sojourn in the newly-renamed FA Carling Premiership was a short one but it was also memorable. The first one-season wonders – the first...
Graeme Le Saux scored one goal for England – but what a goal it was, a swerving half-volley against Brazil in the 1995 Umbro Cup....
Previous entries in this series: When I began watching football in 1990, I quickly noted how prevalent the 2-5-6-3 7-8-4-11 9-10 numbering system was in...
Coventry City’s 11th-placed finish in 1993-94 was their best finish in the Premier League era, matched in 1997-98 (they had ended up seventh and tenth...