Yet they were never forgotten by their self-declared quiet and charismatic manager. Their achievements have largely passed into personal sporting legend – their trophies and achievements now existing only on some long-lost memory card stashed away in a box somewhere.
It was not a glorious time, yet the Tottenham side that existed within the parallel world of one of millions of Sony Playstations seemed to take on a life of its own, going on to retain their league and cup titles, but eventually falling to Leeds United in an overambitious 32 team, world club tournament. In what was a season of a few positives, the squad scraped through to win the League Cup and a return to European competition the following season after at least decade in the domestic wilderness. The real Spurs team of that year, sans their Eastern European and South American contingent, finished 11th in the league.
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Their experimental, somewhat swashbuckling and heavily wing-based 4-2-4 formation, rarely copied – if at all – in professional football during the year’s that have passed, was created over a not insignificant number of training matches and friendlies, before evolving into a style of unparalleled footballing beauty. Fifa 99 on Playstation – released 1998, Electronic Artsįew will probably remember the all conquering Tottenham Hotspur team of the 1998-99 football season.Įnglish, European and EA Cup champions in a single campaign, they were renowned for combining a mixture of obscure, highly rated players from Eastern Europe, South America and Coventry City, with a mostly middle range squad of British and Swiss misfits.