For Celtic fans the nineties are a decade best forgotten, certainly in terms of winning trophies.
Just three arrived at Celtic Park during a decade saw the club transformed- in the boardroom, in the stadium and most importantly on the pitch. Te foundations for the noughties were laid and we are still enjoying them today.
Fashion wise the nineties were a strange period, it was kind of glitzy as mullets disappeared but football tops were big, hair was big and bold with a healthy sheen added thanks to developments with moisturisers.
90s yearbook: Celtic edition pic.twitter.com/I4ViDejFb2
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Only Callum McGregor, Joe Hart and James Forrest of the current Celtic squad attended primary school in the nineties- a period where Peter Grant, John Collins, Simon Donnelly and Jackie McNamara were the trendsetters at Celtic Park.
After Lou Macari likened him to a young Kenny Dalglish, Donnelly was a tabloid favourite, earning comparisons to Leonardo di Caprio although not in terms of his pay packet.
A Japanese player at Celtic would have been unheard of, three decades on and the J-League is producing more players for the club than the SPFL.
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— AM (@almull1980) October 21, 2023
Fcuk – The 90’s were utterly horrendous in a Scottish Football Context…
Apart from that they were great for me – I was skinny, slim, fit, had hair and it was probably the best of the five decades that I’ve lived –
The music though like the football started to slide into the gutter…
Thankfully the football’s been great since the millennium but the music is down the drain (probably forever) !
I was definitely around in the 90s (was mid teens to mid 20s), but I can’t remember ever seeing a footballer dressing up as a strange mix between Vanilla Ice, Tim Westwood and B.A. Baracus as Matt O’Riley has…. nearly all the worst fashion faux-pas were connected to three clubs – Man Utd, Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool, but most of them just got their hair cut and dressed like Take That!
Incidentally, I just ordered a replica of that 97-99 home top the other day! It was one of the ones I didn’t buy at the time (those type of collars really grind my gears) but it has grown on me over the last – gulp – quarter of a century….