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90s footballers

  • Former footballer Jari Litmanen photographed in Tallinn, Estonia for Michael Butler interview.

    Jari Litmanen on Ajax, Barça and a wrist that ‘broke into eight pieces’

    The best footballer Finland has ever produced talks to Michael Butler about the highs and lows of his career and his anonymous life today in Estonia
  • Henrik Larsson outside his childhood home in Helsinborg, Sweden.

    Henrik Larsson: ‘I have 106 caps for Sweden but I see myself as foreign’

    Celtic’s ‘King of Kings’ on his tough upbringing, playing with Rooney and Ronaldinho, and falling out of love with the game
  • Benito Carbone poses outside a cafe in Bermondsey

    Benito Carbone: ‘I never wanted to leave Wednesday. It was my mistake’

    Arriving in Sheffield set Benito Carbone, now 51, on a path to being one of the game’s biggest cult heroes, and now he tells Michael Butler of his hopes to manage in England
  • Former Manchester City player Paulo Wanchope.

    Paulo Wanchope: ‘I woke every hour and a half before my Derby debut’

    The Costa Rican striker on how salsa helped him score a wonder-goal, still having Raúl’s shin pad and his favourite English atmosphere
  • Ian Woan

    Ian Woan: ‘Clough’s magic was putting a team of misfits together’

    Left-winger became a Nottingham Forest hero after Brian Clough hijacked Harry Redknapp’s deal to sign him from Runcorn
  • GAIZKA MENDIETA

    Gaizka Mendieta: 'Southgate wasn't honest with me at Middlesbrough'

    Former Spain midfielder on success at Valencia with Claudio Ranieri, lockdown DJing and the ups and downs at Boro
  • Neil Ruddock, who has released a book, pictured at his home in Kent last month.

    Neil Ruddock: ‘Souness wouldn’t drop players, he would tackle you instead’

    Former defender discusses tricking Liverpool’s physio, winding up Eric Cantona and getting bullets in the post
  • Paul Parker

    Paul Parker: 'I'd bring the lager. Rocky would bring brandy and Babycham'

    Thirty years since the World Cup semi-final against West Germany, the full-back talks David Rocastle, Manchester United and and his horrific experiences with racism
  • Philippe Albert, pictured in his home in Belgium

    Philippe Albert: ‘Keegan would buy fish and chips and the drinks for our Newcastle team’

    Philippe Albert, the former Newcastle defender remembers Faustino Asprilla, that goal against Manchester United and working as a greengrocer back in Belgium after football
  • Pierre van Hooijdonk

    Pierre van Hooijdonk: ‘I told Ron Atkinson he was a pub manager’

    The Dutch striker on his time at Nottingham Forest, Celtic and returning to Glasgow to pay tribute to Fernando Ricksen
  • Lothar Matthaus photoshoot, Stockholm, Sweden - 29 Mar 2018<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by IBL/REX/Shutterstock (9777679a)
Lothar Matthaus, German football manager and former player
Lothar Matthaus photoshoot, Stockholm, Sweden - 29 Mar 2018

    Lothar Matthäus: ‘With Putin I talked football, judo and Brexit'

    The German legend discusses Bayern’s defeat by Manchester United 20 years on, Maradona and meeting Russia’s president
  • Karel Poborsky, the ex Czech Republic footballer, who played for Manchester United and Benfica, poses for a portrait at the Dorchester House Hotel on 22 March 2019 in London (Photo by Tom Jenkins)

    Karel Poborsky: ‘They put me into a coma. All my face muscles were paralysed’

    The former Manchester United winger tells Michael Butler about a visit from Sir Alex Ferguson, his relationship with David Beckham and a brain infection scare
  • John Scales

    John Scales: ‘I punched a hole in the wall when I had to leave Liverpool’

    The former England defender tells Michael Butler of how Alan Sugar and a smoke alarm changed a career that took him from Wimbledon to Anfield to Spurs
  • Steve Ogrizovic

    Steve Ogrizovic: ‘I enjoyed the police. I was good at clearing bars and clubs’

    In the first of a series on 90s throwback footballers, Coventry’s former goalkeeper and current coach discusses the team’s shaves with relegation and his father’s escape from the Nazis
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