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Henry, Houllier and United’s Treble Hangover The summer of 1999 should have been Manchester… Henry, Houllier and United’s Treble Hangover The summer of 1999 should have been Manchester United’s victory lap. They had just won the Treble, Alex Ferguson was knighted, and the Premier League was trying to work out what came next. But the league underneath them was shifting quickly. Arsenal lost Nicolas Anelka and brought in Davor Suker and Thierry Henry. Liverpool began Gérard Houllier’s real rebuild with Sami Hyypia, Dietmar Hamann, Stéphane Henchoz, Vladimir Smicer and Sander Westerveld. Chelsea added Didier Deschamps and Chris Sutton as Vialli’s continental squad got even deeper. Leeds sold Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink but doubled down on youth with Michael Bridges, Danny Mills and Michael Duberry. Sunderland arrived with Kevin Phillips and Niall Quinn. And Sky Digital was selling football as the future. In this episode, we look back at the summer before the 1999/00 Premier League season: the transfers, the money, Serie A’s excess, McManaman leaving Liverpool for Real Madrid, United replacing Peter Schmeichel, Arsenal’s post-Anelka puzzle, and the changing way English football was watched. Was 1999/00 set up as a United procession, or was the league more interesting than hindsight remembers? Subscribe for more retro Premier League and Champions League history. #PremierLeague #FootballHistory #AndItsLive #ManchesterUnited #Arsenal #Liverpool #Chelsea #LeedsUnited #ThierryHenry #KevinPhillips via And It’s Live! Retro Football Podcast ⚽️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgqf05DxACSoBkKXT8kD6xw June 5, 2026 at 08:00PM https://ift.tt/ZkqAFmE via And It's Live! Retro Football Podcast ⚽️ https://ift.tt/Hta7Oqg June 5, 2026 at 09:45PM

The Ten Days That Made Man Utd Immortal in 1999 The 1998/99 Premier League season reaches its final… The Ten Days That Made Man Utd Immortal in 1999 The 1998/99 Premier League season reaches its final act. Manchester United are chasing the Treble. Arsenal are chasing back-to-back titles. Chelsea are still close enough to matter. Leeds are emerging as the league’s next big noise. Everton need Kevin Campbell to save them. Southampton and Charlton are scrapping at the bottom. And, somehow, Spurs end up playing a huge role on the final day. In this episode, we look back at the final months of 1998/99: Robbie Fowler’s infamous celebrations, Kevin Keegan taking the England job, George Graham delivering Spurs a trophy, Kevin Campbell’s huge Everton loan spell, Arsenal’s late surge, the FA Cup semi-final replay, United’s chaotic April, Leeds’ title-race intervention at Elland Road, and the final-day drama at Old Trafford. Was Manchester United’s Treble side the greatest Premier League team we had seen by that point? Or were they simply the best chaos-management team English football had produced? Let us know your take in the comments. #PremierLeague #ManchesterUnited #Arsenal #FootballHistory #AndItsLive via And It’s Live! Retro Football Podcast ⚽️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgqf05DxACSoBkKXT8kD6xw May 29, 2026 at 08:00PM https://ift.tt/wlo3gMX via And It's Live! Retro Football Podcast ⚽️ https://ift.tt/AUiQB92 May 29, 2026 at 08:45PM

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Man United’s Attack Caught Fire in 98/99 Michael Owen was scoring four in a game. Alan Smith was… Man United’s Attack Caught Fire in 98/99 Michael Owen was scoring four in a game. Alan Smith was announcing himself at Anfield. Leeds and Liverpool looked like the future. Aston Villa and Chelsea were first and second at Christmas. Arsenal and Manchester United were still not quite fully convincing. Then United’s attack caught fire. In part three of our 1998/99 Premier League series, we cover the winter months of a season that was starting to turn: Owen’s four goals against Nottingham Forest, Alan Smith’s debut goal for Leeds at Liverpool, Martin O’Neill rejecting Leeds, David O’Leary stepping up, Pierluigi Casiraghi’s devastating Chelsea injury, Duncan Ferguson leaving Everton for Newcastle, West Ham’s brilliant young core, Arsenal signing Kanu, and Nottingham Forest bringing in Big Ron. We also look at the Cole and Yorke partnership beginning to explode, why it worked, how it compared to Owen and Fowler, and United’s ridiculous New Year scoring run: 4-1, 6-2 and 8-1, with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scoring four off the bench against Forest. And then there’s the title-race checkpoint at Old Trafford: Manchester United 1-1 Arsenal, Yorke missing a penalty, David Seaman starring, Kanu and Anelka combining, Andy Cole equalising, and Roy Keane missing a huge late chance. Plus: Glenn Hoddle, England, the tabloids, reincarnation, and one of the strangest managerial exits of the era. Subscribe for the full 1998/99 Premier League story. #PremierLeague #FootballHistory #AndItsLive #ManUnited #ArsenalMichael Owen was scoring four in a game. Alan Smith was announcing himself at Anfield. Leeds and Liverpool looked like the future. Aston Villa and Chelsea were first and second at Christmas. Arsenal and Manchester United were still not quite fully convincing. Then United’s attack caught fire. In part three of our 1998/99 Premier League series, we cover the winter months of a season that was starting to turn: Owen’s four goals against Nottingham Forest, Alan Smith’s debut goal for Leeds at Liverpool, Martin O’Neill rejecting Leeds, David O’Leary stepping up, Pierluigi Casiraghi’s devastating Chelsea injury, Duncan Ferguson leaving Everton for Newcastle, West Ham’s brilliant young core, Arsenal signing Kanu, and Nottingham Forest bringing in Big Ron. We also look at the Cole and Yorke partnership beginning to explode, why it worked, how it compared to Owen and Fowler, and United’s ridiculous New Year scoring run: 4-1, 6-2 and 8-1, with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scoring four off the bench against Forest. And then there’s the title-race checkpoint at Old Trafford: Manchester United 1-1 Arsenal, Yorke missing a penalty, David Seaman starring, Kanu and Anelka combining, Andy Cole equalising, and Roy Keane missing a huge late chance. Plus: Glenn Hoddle, England, the tabloids, reincarnation, and one of the strangest managerial exits of the era. Subscribe for the full 1998/99 Premier League story. #PremierLeague #FootballHistory #AndItsLive #ManUnited #Arsenal via And It’s Live! Retro Football Podcast ⚽️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgqf05DxACSoBkKXT8kD6xw May 23, 2026 at 01:43AM https://ift.tt/0DzaqMm via And It's Live! Retro Football Podcast ⚽️ https://ift.tt/6Q2KrN9 May 23, 2026 at 01:45AM

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The Weird Start to the 98/99 Season Everyone remembers the 1998/99 Premier League season for… The Weird Start to the 98/99 Season Everyone remembers the 1998/99 Premier League season for Manchester United, Arsenal, the Treble and the title race. But by the autumn of 1998, the table looked a lot stranger than that. Aston Villa and Derby County started brilliantly. Charlton arrived in the Premier League with pace, confidence and Alan Curbishley calm. Newcastle replaced Kenny Dalglish with Ruud Gullit and “sexy football.” Spurs somehow hired George Graham from Leeds. Arsenal beat Manchester United 3-0, then lost at Sheffield Wednesday on the day Paolo Di Canio shoved referee Paul Alcock into Premier League folklore. And United? They were still carrying the David Beckham backlash, dealing with BSkyB’s attempted takeover, drawing too many games, then trying to find rhythm with Jaap Stam and Dwight Yorke. In episode two of our 1998/99 Premier League series, we cover August to November 1998: Gullit at Newcastle, Michael Owen tearing through defences, Charlton’s strong start, Derby and Villa setting the early pace, United and Arsenal’s slow starts, the BSkyB takeover story, Di Canio’s meltdown, George Graham’s move to Spurs, and the early European picture for United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Leeds and Liverpool. The season everyone remembers had a much weirder opening act. Subscribe for the full 1998/99 Premier League story. #PremierLeague #FootballHistory #AndItsLive #ManUnited #Arsenal via And It’s Live! Retro Football Podcast ⚽️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgqf05DxACSoBkKXT8kD6xw May 15, 2026 at 02:33PM https://ift.tt/akQzjty via And It's Live! Retro Football Podcast ⚽️ https://ift.tt/GJVIH9O May 15, 2026 at 03:45PM

Ranking The 5 Most Iconic 90s Premier League Kits The Premier League gave us some unforgettable… Ranking The 5 Most Iconic 90s Premier League Kits The Premier League gave us some unforgettable kits in the 90s. In this episode, we try to settle on the most iconic of those in this decade. Not just the best-looking shirts, but the ones that really define the era: the sponsors, the colours, the collars, the players and the memories attached to them. We debate Newcastle, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and. others to try to build a top five that actually makes sense. Which 90s Premier League shirt would be your number one? If you enjoy retro Premier League history, kits, nostalgia and football culture, subscribe to And It’s Live! for new episodes every week. #PremierLeague #FootballHistory #90sFootball #RetroFootball via And It’s Live! Retro Football Podcast ⚽️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgqf05DxACSoBkKXT8kD6xw May 8, 2026 at 07:43PM https://ift.tt/9SE10CW via And It's Live! Retro Football Podcast ⚽️ https://ift.tt/qtUOShZ May 8, 2026 at 07:45PM

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Arsenal Had the Trophy. United Had the Grudge Arsenal came into 1998/99 with the Double, World Cup… Arsenal Had the Trophy. United Had the Grudge Arsenal came into 1998/99 with the Double, World Cup winners in midfield, and a 3-0 Charity Shield win over Manchester United. United came in wounded, expensive, angry, and carrying the full weight of the David Beckham backlash. In the first episode of our 1998/99 Premier League season, we go back to the summer of 1998: France 98, Beckham becoming England’s favourite villain, Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal looking like the new model club, and Alex Ferguson responding with Jaap Stam and Dwight Yorke. We also look at Chelsea’s ridiculous glamour window with Marcel Desailly, Pierluigi Casiraghi, Brian Laudrup and Albert Ferrer, Liverpool’s awkward Roy Evans/Gerard Houllier joint-manager experiment, Walter Smith arriving at Everton, Christian Gross hanging on at Spurs, Aston Villa spending the Dwight Yorke money, and the wider mood of a Premier League that was getting louder, richer and more European by the week. And then there’s the Charity Shield: Arsenal 3-0 Manchester United. A statement? A false dawn? Or just the perfect little warning that 1998/99 was going to be a bit special? Subscribe for the full 1998/99 Premier League season, from the early title race to the run-in, the cups, Europe, relegation scrap, and the legacy of one of English football’s most famous campaigns. Full episode of And It’s Live! The History of the Premier League. #PremierLeague #FootballHistory #AndItsLive #Arsenal #ManUnited via And It’s Live! Retro Football Podcast ⚽️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgqf05DxACSoBkKXT8kD6xw April 24, 2026 at 09:39PM https://ift.tt/sVelBU4 via And It's Live! Retro Football Podcast ⚽️ https://ift.tt/CZUT16P April 24, 2026 at 10:45PM

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From finished to champions | Arsenal’s impossible 1998 title race Arsenal looked finished in the… From finished to champions | Arsenal’s impossible 1998 title race Arsenal looked finished in the 1997/98 title race. Manchester United were 12 points clear. The bookies had paid out. Then everything changed. In this episode of And It’s Live: The History of the Premier League, we follow the final weeks of one of the greatest title races in Premier League history. We cover how Arsène Wenger’s Arsenal found another gear, why Marc Overmars and Nicolas Anelka became almost impossible to stop, and how Manchester United’s injuries, pressure and fixture pile-up helped swing the race. We also look at Newcastle’s dark collapse, the Stevenage FA Cup scare, Chelsea’s European success, and the wider mood around English football at the end of the 1997/98 season. #PremierLeague #Arsenal #ManchesterUnited #Wenger #FootballHistory #AndItsLive via And It’s Live! Retro Football Podcast ⚽️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgqf05DxACSoBkKXT8kD6xw April 18, 2026 at 02:16AM https://ift.tt/AC7UHPF via And It's Live! Retro Football Podcast ⚽️ https://ift.tt/XNTV2fn April 18, 2026 at 02:45AM

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The Winter That Changed the 97/98 Title Race The 1997/98 Premier League title race looked like it… The Winter That Changed the 97/98 Title Race The 1997/98 Premier League title race looked like it was starting to settle down. It absolutely was not. In this episode of And It’s Live! The History of the Premier League, we get into one of the strangest stretches of the season: Christian Gross arriving at Tottenham, Ruud Gullit getting sacked by Chelsea while they were still 2nd, Arsenal wobbling badly after their win over Manchester United, and United suddenly dropping points when the title looked close to done. We also dig into Liverpool’s inconsistency, Coventry’s brilliant little strike partnership, Darren Huckerby’s big moment against Manchester United, and the arrival of Michael Owen as an England player who already looked different. This is really the winter where the 97/98 season turns messy. Nobody fully takes control, everybody has a wobble, and Arsenal are still hanging around waiting for the second half of the story. If you enjoy retro Premier League history, title-race chaos, old-school football culture and weekly deep dives into the 90s and 2000s, subscribe and get involved in the comments. #PremierLeague #PremierLeagueHistory #FootballHistory #Arsenal #ManchesterUnited via And It’s Live! Retro Football Podcast ⚽️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgqf05DxACSoBkKXT8kD6xw April 10, 2026 at 08:46PM https://ift.tt/YOCjsKu via And It's Live! Retro Football Podcast ⚽️ https://ift.tt/52KPSrR April 10, 2026 at 09:45PM

Who Was the Most 90s Premier League Player Ever? Who actually was the most 90s Premier League… Who Was the Most 90s Premier League Player Ever? Who actually was the most 90s Premier League player? Not the best. Not the most successful. The one who most summed up that very specific version of English football: the baggy kits, the Sky Sports hype, the tabloid nonsense, the glamour, the chaos, the cult status and the pure Barclays energy. In this shorter break-week episode of And It’s Live!, Adam and David each bring their picks and try to agree a top three. From David Ginola, Fabrizio Ravanelli and Matt Le Tissier to Gianfranco Zola and Rob Lee, this is a fun ranking of the players who felt most inseparable from the Premier League’s 90s identity. Who did we miss, and who would be your number one? #PremierLeague #PremierLeagueHistory #90sFootball via And It’s Live! Retro Football Podcast ⚽️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgqf05DxACSoBkKXT8kD6xw April 2, 2026 at 08:01PM https://ift.tt/KTaU2o5 via And It's Live! Retro Football Podcast ⚽️ https://ift.tt/hJHn4rt April 2, 2026 at 08:45PM