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HEY EVERYONE I IGNORE SOMEONE LOOK AT ME
Keegan's Newcastle was something else, especially given how squad rotation wasn't really a thing yet.
I remember thinking at the time that a attacking suite of Shearer, Les Ferdinand, Asprilla, Beardsley and Ginola was impossibly stacked.
Yes, it was top heavy. Players like Barton, Albert, Lee, Gillespie and Batty were good players but no more than that. And of those five top attacking players, 2 of them were often warming the bench.
Alongside Vialli, Gullit, Bergkamp, Juninho and Zola, they were the quintessence of the footballing revolution that hit the premier league in the late 90s for me. It drove me up the wall that all these lesser teams were signing fantastically exciting players from abroad, whilst we were signing Leonhardsen and Riedle during those times.
Still, on their day Newcastle were as exciting to watch as anyone.
I remember thinking at the time that a attacking suite of Shearer, Les Ferdinand, Asprilla, Beardsley and Ginola was impossibly stacked.
Yes, it was top heavy. Players like Barton, Albert, Lee, Gillespie and Batty were good players but no more than that. And of those five top attacking players, 2 of them were often warming the bench.
Alongside Vialli, Gullit, Bergkamp, Juninho and Zola, they were the quintessence of the footballing revolution that hit the premier league in the late 90s for me. It drove me up the wall that all these lesser teams were signing fantastically exciting players from abroad, whilst we were signing Leonhardsen and Riedle during those times.
Still, on their day Newcastle were as exciting to watch as anyone.