Which footballers did you fancy back in the day?

[Emmazebra]

Current England team all young enough to be my son but back in the 1990s my friends were all football mad & our crushes included Trevor Sinclair, Jamie Redknapp, Graeme Le Saux, David Ginola, Ryan Giggs and loads more I can’t remember.

It was before mobile phones obviously so we used to cut pictures of our heart-throbs out the newspaper and stick them inside the back covers of our exercise books at school and get a bollocking from the teachers

George Best, Ally McCoist

Beckham, before I read certain stories!
That's about it really!
Agree Gary L has aged well but never really fancied him.

Ian Wright rrrr

Tierry Henry

So beautiful. Just looked at the va va voom ad. Blimey he’s even more gorgeous than I remember!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=jzi_0MrJixo

Cantona, he reminded me of Dh.

Ian Wright. Still do.

Paul Scholes 🙈

Claudio Caniggia.

Michael Owen 😍

Tony Cottee
David Platt
Gary Lineker

🙄

God I'm so old! Just googled them, they're old!

@lollypoppi

Brian Laudrup. Gorgeous then still gorgeous now. Can't believe he's 52!

He was mine too!

@EskSmith

Andrei Kanchelskis. I had a massive poster of him on my bedroom wall and pics plastered on every surface! Just looked him up now and got a massive shock!!

He doesn't even look like the same person!!!

Didier Drogba. Yes please

@480Widdio

Claudio Caniggia.

Oh god me too. 1990 World Cup

My Mum had a crush on Brian Robson. She used to call him "My Brian". She was 40 years older than him.

I once had sex with John Terry

Was not an experience I wish to repeat

💕Ginola💕

I used to like Shearer, who hasn't aged as well as Mr Lineker!

To the PP who liked Italy goalie Donnarumma, me too until I realised I was old enough to be his mum!

How long have you got?

Patrick Berger (I remember John Motson introducing him during Euro 96 as "here's one for the ladies" - he wasn't wrong!)

David Ginola (natch)

Alessandro del Piero (until I saw his hair on TV on Sunday but it was mostly about his name anyway - say it out loud and it sounds like sex. Or is that just me?)

But my big "love" was Neil Sullivan when he was at Wimbledon. It was worth freezing my tits off on the terraces every week just to see him. Met him a couple of times. Nice bloke.

@misssunshine4040

Alan Shearer circa euro 96 😍

Loved him then, still love him now 😍

@Pinkandwrinkly

Peter Ward.

It was the 70s, bubble perms were in

My DH wanted to name any son we might have "Ward". I suspect he adored him even more than you did

I managed to negotiate down to a middle name but "fortunately" there was no son.

@IvorHughJarrs

Gosh you are all young! Mine would be George Best

Ditto!

So beautiful!

David Seaman

Stuart Pearce for me too!

@Awrite I think your mum was on to something there, when I saw him in the studio for Euro 2020 I thought he'd aged extremely well. Even if he does have unnervingly white teeth!