It was the last days of football before multi-million pound TV rights deals and prawn sandwiches in the director's boxes changed English football forever. When the Premier League was born in 1992 , money and glamour increasingly became part of modern football, and with it, suggestions that the multi-million pound salaries of its stars widened the gulf between fans and players. The creation of the Premier League also spawned a decade of football where Manchester United dominated the English game.
However, even United's outspoken Captain, Roy Keane, would take aim at his club's home supporters watching from the corporate boxes, more interested in the 'prawn sandwiches' than the game. READ MORE: The secrets uncovered from 'a Manchester not a lot of people see' READ MORE: Rare photos look inside Manchester's pubs and bars back in the 1990s This spawned the derogatory term "prawn sandwich brigade" - a term for those fans who attended matches primarily for the corporate hospitality, and new found kudos of the English game thanks to its fresh gloss, rather than what was happening on the field. Join our WhatsApp Top Stories and, Breaking News group by clicking this link 1991 was the year English clubs returned to European competition following a five-year ban after the Heysel Stadium disaster, and the last domestic season before the Premier League started.
Manchester photographer Richard Davis documented this final season of the English game before it changed forever. Richard's photo.
