random 90's footballers

Nationality English

Position Midfielder

Team(s) Man United 1994-1999, Man City 1999-2002

Stats 24 Appearances, 2 Goals

Fun Fact Cooke’s career at United never really took off seemingly leading to his omission from “The Class Of 92” as seen in these pictures where it almost looks as if he was just photoshopped into the original behind Paul Scholes. After many loan spells and foreign transfers he last played for Tony Adams’ Gabala FC in Azerbaijan before being released in May 2011.

Suggested by @AndyVale

Nationality Italian

Position Goalkeeper

Team(s) Manchester United 1999-2000

Stats 4 Appearances, 0 Goals

Fun Fact Manchester United forked out £4.5 million for him and he won the Man of the Match award in his debut against Liverpool.

Submitted by Jordan Thelan

Nationality English

Positon Defender

Team(s) Blackburn Rovers 1988-1994, Manchester United 1994-2003

Stats 208 Appearances, 9 Goals

Fun Fact As a first team regular at Blackburn his wages were £500 per week whilst Alan Shearer was on £9000 a week.

Submitted by Tom Little

Nationality English

Position Defender / Midfielder

Team(s) Manchester United 1995-2001

Stats 19 Appearances, 0 Goals

Fun Fact Whilst Ronnie was on loan to Royal Antwerp, he punched a referee in the face which initially resulted in Wallwork receiving a life time ban from football in Belgium. He has recently been imprisoned for scrapping stolen vehicles.

Submitted by Gary Lansley

Nationality English

Position Striker

Team(s) Man United1986-1992, Norwich City1992-1995, Leicester City1995-1998

Stats 172 Appearances, 43 Goals

Fun Fact Robins is ofted cited as the player who scored the goal which “saved Alex Ferguson’s job” in 1990.

Nationality French

Position Centre Back

Team Manchester United 1995-1996

Stats 2 Appearances, 0 Goals

Fun Fact In an article from the Times Online, where supporters were asked about the worst players to have played in the top division since 1970, Prunier was voted 6th out of 50.

Submitted by Gary Lansley and Richard Bailey

Nationality English

Position Goalkeeper

Team(s) Manchester United 1992-1998

Stats 6 Appearances, 0 Goals

Fun Fact Pilkington made his first competitive start in one of the most embarrassing games of United’s modern history on 20 September 1995, when as the Premier League’s second placed team they were beaten 3–0 at home by Second Division strugglers York City. He is also an avid tweeter and can be found at @kpilks

Nationality English

Position Defender

Team(s) Manchester United 1993-1998

Stats 2 Appearances, 0 Goals

Fun Fact Casper played his last ever professional game in 1999 for Reading against Cardiff when he suffered a double leg fracture from a tackle by Richard Carpenter. He then successfully claimed damages for past and future loss of earnings and pain and suffering from Cardiff and Carpenter.

Nationality Dutch

Position Goalkeeper

Team(s) Manchester United 1994-2002, West Ham 2002-2003

Stats 37 Appearances, 0 Goals

Fun Fact After playing 493 total career league games, the 44 year old Van der Gouw scored his only league goal in his final game through a penalty for AGOVV Apeldoorn. A crowd video of that goal can be seen here.

Nationality Swedish

Position Midfielder

Team(s) Man United 1998-2001, Everton 2001-2002, Charlton 2002-2003

Stats 43 Appearances, 2 Goals

Fun Fact Blomqvist is currently considering an offer to join the Indonesia team Persebaya 1927. The supporters of Persebaya are known as Bonek (abbreviation of Bondo Nekat, literally “The Reckless People”) and are notorious for violence and hooliganism.

Nationality Welsh

Position Full Back / Winger

Team(s) Man United 1982-1994, Middlesbrough 1994-1999

Stats 317 Appearances 31 Goals

Fun Fact He has the unique distinction of having worn every number for Manchester United from 2 to 11