Premier League launch - A whole new ball game

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Sky partnered with the Premier League for the inaugural season in 1992/93. 22 teams started the season battling it out to be crowned champions before Manchester United went on to win their first title.
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[@SkySportsRetro]

How many of these premier league legends can you name?

[@dazens1]

whose the smiling guy at 0;13-0.14 just cannot place him

[@morro316]

@@dazens1 Sheffield Wednesday legend David Hurst

[@harry.dwyer16]

Literally just John Barnes lol

[@holysinaa]

I think i saw Vinnie Jones. That's it 😅 but it's a very nice video to watch. Thnx 😘

[@tyreesepierre21]

I only recognize John Barnes

[@MT-zw1ti]

This is the most 80's/90's thing i've ever seen

[@CARLIN4737]

Youve never watched Minder?

[@faersy]

Sky need to remake this ad exactly (as best as they can, anyway) in a couple years for the 30th anniversary prior to the 2022/23 season

[@pkingglazersout6665]

How about for the 50th one, that would be special ain’t it?

[@SunnyvaleTrailerParkSupervisor]

Yep exactly the same.

[@oisinom697]

@@pkingglazersout6665 well, the 30th is closer

[@MrStevenastley]

No, they don't.

[@Chall1]

God the 2022/23 remake would have Kane, Rashford, Schmeichel, Lacazette, etc. Saka, Smith Rowe, Lamptey as the next gens

[@aaronjoyce4008]

Brings back great memories as a kid loving football , buying shoot and match magazines , collecting the panini sticker albums. 👍

[@ejkalegal3145]

@Cian MacGana please don't bring race into it - completely and utterly irrelevant.

[@ejkalegal3145]

Do you have Ricky Hill - Luton Town - 1987/88? I'll trade you 20 silvers for it.

[@28copland]

Happy days lad, remember having around 200 Peter ndlovu stickers came in every pack nearly

[@burko002]

Would love to see a remake with the current players for the new season

[@alexmacleod3728]

They’ll make it for the 30th anniversary of the league

[@jb894]

It'll have to be politically correct tho lmao

[@GeorgeThompson89]

Jorgeyy Boyy so how would It be any different

[@jb894]

@@GeorgeThompson89 certain amount of black players, gay players, Asian players etc

[@madridista6862]

@@jb894 isn't like 60% of your league is made up of foreigners lol

[@masere]

"Hey can't wait until Liverpool lift that new trophy. Won't be too long..."

[@rfcalm]

who are you quoting?

[@masere]

@@rfcalm No-one I was just imagining what us Liverpool fans would have said in 1992 when the Prem started little knowing it would be 30 years.

[@Troll_the_Trolls]

😂

[@DanielPlaysThis]

shush

[@hassanfayad2285]

heyyy you sooooo funnyy

[@haroldinhoo1655]

Back when Man City were like burnley

[@blvckemo_]

That's what makes us the best rags to riches

[@sbsquad7652]

@@blvckemo_ money saved u guys

[@obukohwoogheneakpobo3011]

@@blvckemo_ u didnt work for it lol u basically cheated

[@ethanpower381]

@@blvckemo_ You basically won the lottery lol

[@cobbler9113]

And when Burnley were, well... nowhere near the Premier League 😄

[@jamesfinucane3608]

The days when there was something innocent about ruthless ambition

[@CARLIN4737]

eeeerm Murdoch was never an innocent?

[@rmkw4291]

This is why I always think of the early Premier League seasons when I hear Alive and Kicking.

[@leeandrew6555]

Can see Nottingham Forest having a good season with Sheringham up top, Roy Keane in the middle, Stuart Pearce as captain and Brian Clough as manager.

[@apathyintheuk265]

You would have thought so, wouldn't you!

[@andrewward2010]

Sheringham will be going to Spurs

[@ItsKenny11]

arsenal don’t seem that promising

[@cobbler9113]

Somewhat ironically, Nottingham Forest based on points per game that season would have stayed up easily in recent seasons. Quality gap has got stupid in recent years.

[@tamhaswoods9056]

Sheringham stays = Forest survive, Oldham drop. No question (although it as good as happened in 1994, with Oldham dropping and Forest coming up) Frank Clark could have taken that team serious places had Cloughie gone earlier. Guess Steve Cooper might still do that, but even if he does, there's no forgetting the two decades of tension and abject horror that came before the 2022 playoffs.

[@fluffydean811]

I remember feeling so excited about the Premier League starting on Sky back then. Every time I hear alive and kicking it takes me right back to that moment.

[@brobno9]

And to think on that opening weekend there was a grand total of 13 overseas players in the entire league.... Now the entire globe is represented here!

[@andyreeve3880]

Hard to believe Peter Reids team talks were so calm and expletive free.

[@infamousroy4421]

Yes, Ipswich, Coventry City & Oldham Were once in the Premier league. Getting one's head around that is itself a big achievement.

[@Black-White85]

Tbf Coventry were there up to 2001, and about 35 years in the top flight in all. The likes of Oldham, Swindon, Barnsley, Bradford etc. can be easily forgotten for being in the PL but not Coventry.

[@luukvangendt5541]

Yeah Ipswich is a small club of course😂 Former UEFA Cup, League and FA Cup champions but OK. Coventry also played 34 consective season in the top flight but OK. They both bigger than the 'amazing' clubs of this world, Norwich, Bournemouth, Watford, Brighton and Crystal Palace

[@exquisitelemonade3039]

Ipswich have had a few seasons, Coventry were ever presents.

[@mohammeda7731]

Put Bradford and Swindon Town they were also there.

[@r4lfxd]

I just wonder which clubs you will say that about in 20 years. Honestly, there already is many just in the past 10 years that have sadly acclimatized in lower divisions like Portsmouth, Bolton, Sunderland, Wigan, Hull...

[@dazens1]

it took three seperate lots of running down the tunnel to get the end shots from 1;20 first they are running on marble in studded boots, then the shot from above is looking through glass and metal roof supports over them, then the are running on glass in nonstudded trainers and the camera faces up at a concrete ceiling with lights (gone is the glass ceiling) .

[@JohnMcMahon.]

Ahh the nostalgia. I remember coming home from school and we had our first satellite dish on the side of the house.. Great memories.

[@HighlandMike325]

My first ever wage went on a sky dish and Amstrad box. First ever game was Saarbrucken v Energie Cottbus live on ZDF, german 2nd division. I thought i'd landed in football heaven

[@toastedroast]

It's a shame our sky is still not on 19.2° east. With Sky Deutschland. Imagine the possibilities or tuning into their channels like you would have back in the analogue days, Albeit most likely through the other channels section, Or if Sky UK' DE' allowed their services on both for their audience living in either Germany or UK,

[@groundhopperd8608]

Such a golden age of football. Past the relentless hooliganism of the ‘70s and ‘80s and before the bland corporatism of the present-day Premier League. The ‘90s were as good as it got.

[@fifagoals2744]

Agreed football was so good back then

[@martinharvey3990]

I remember us getting Sky for 1992 Cricket WC and then in the August there was a real buzz around the Premier League... club football needed something different & Sky certainly provided it!

[@richardwallace5226]

The Glory Days. Wonderful memories of a completely different World we used to live in.

[@baronlfenstein7668]

A better world (in terms of football)

[@richardwallace5226]

@@baronlfenstein7668football when it felt like Like it had a very British core to it, which reflected as a country generally speaking Plus the World was a better place

[@rohithraman6488]

@@richardwallace5226 is this nostalgia talking or am I just having recency bias?

[@richardwallace5226]

@@rohithraman6488just speaking from some one comparing it to the way it is now. Obviously you did not like England as it was then.

[@arranmelaugh5606]

The 90s just seemed such a happier place

[@emilfrederiksen.1622]

It was

[@hakc97again]

@@emilfrederiksen.1622 Unless your name was John Bobbitt or Nicole Brown Simpson lol. I have a soft spot for the 1990s but don't be daft

[@emilfrederiksen.1622]

@@hakc97again Okay there were murder victims in the 90s what is your point?

[@hakc97again]

@@emilfrederiksen.1622 I'm just saying don't be rose tinted about the past.

[@YourBoyJohnny94]

Unless you were living in the Balkans.

[@RicciChoi1109]

Coventry, Ipswich, Middlesbrough, Nottingham Forest, Blackburn, Sheffield Wednesday, the disbanded Wimbledon...and the others which haven't been promoted back to Premier League for a long time...

[@markkofi8522]

1:15 - Even as a Manchester United fan I still get chills from Johnny Barnes being on absolute fire during that period. 👌🏾

[@JCR12_]

This is atrocious but amazing at the same time

[@cruiseylee]

Why is it bad?

[@brodown64]

@@cruiseylee I think he meant cheesy, which I still dont get mostly

[@sbaby-kg8hn]

It was very eggy

[@muswentebanda9124]

Sky Sports are smashing the content lately 👏🏿 I’ve never seen this before 😍

[@SkySportsRetro]

👍🏼

[@priteshpatel1312]

Before your time, this was when i started secondary school. This advert was on tv extensively

[@jacklancaster6927]

@@SkySportsRetro shame nowadays football boring plain no character.

[@ZPSBestProfileName]

@Blue No one's offended. It was just a crap joke lol

[@ebrahimparuk735]

@Blue lmao

[@blakeash4846]

Nostalgia from the summer of 1992 , this advert was on all the time . Brings back memories. Sky should recreate this in the summer 2022 but with the current premier league stars .

[@hbkgoon]

I would love to see that 😎😎

[@jeffbroccoli]

The old days of English football where half the players looked as old as your Dad

[@leeturton9254]

Better days though mate... money and social media has killed it..

[@klachingmacgaming8400]

@@leeturton9254 there was always money involved lil bro

[@JRE85]

Darren Anderton got injured during the making of this advert #coys

[@rohithraman6488]

Imagine if Michael Owen was in this advert 😂

[@jet4212006]

All those kits were amazing back then

[@templarknight2010]

Back when footballers werent over paid pre-maddonas who spend half their life rolling on the ground with the slighest touch

[@emjackson2289]

The only thing "more of its time" than this is the Ford "Everything We Do" advert (probs on with the Sunday match I'd have thought) and "One Great Thing" Tennants advert.

[@penguin0075]

Absolutely loved this!! I was in Year 4 at school, and I just remember this advert and Simple Minds playing every morning.

[@AJTAFC]

The beginning of the slow death of football

[@maleduardo7848]

1990s when football was for the fans

[@ala0284]

Quality of football was terrible though. You sacrifice one thing, but definitely make improvements in the others

[@maleduardo7848]

ALA_Legend 02 I wouldn’t say terrible but it was good for it’s time with all the players boozing, gambling and taking drugs they did the best they could

[@ShahPhilLeotardo]

1992/3 was a bit of a transitional period out with all the 70/80’s players and the arrival with the next generation. Giggs, Shearer, Fowler, Anderton, Sheringham, Redknap, McManaman, Keane, Andy Cole, Batty, Le Saux, Les Ferdinand. Plus Cantona and Klinsmann. These guys carried the early years of the Premier League.

[@theguy8275]

Leeds “ lets defend the title in style lads”

[@AHumanClay]

Excellent! I came here through Classic Football"s Game on Twitter.

[@gabrielpurves7156]

Lmao where are Oldham now 😂😂😂

[@johnhigginbotham8291]

Best Sky promo of all time!!!!!

[@1414yorks]

I would say it's a dead heat with Sky's Sean Bean 1997 Premier League promo.

[@MattJD1111]

They should recreate that for when it starts back

[@MrPsarn]

Yesterday (17-06), which as the first day of the PL restart, this song played while I was drivin down the freeway listening to 'Absolute' radio station early afternoon, and I immediately cast my mind back to the first ever season of the PL. Surely it was not a co-incidence?

[@strykah92]

I reckon they’ll do a recreation for the 30th anniversary in 2022.

[@markbrock7996]

Ah the memories just started high school still get goosebumps watching this

[@Deano_Longley]

You can't explain how this ad drew you in back in the day,unless you were there watching it you wouldn't really know

[@markkofi8522]

Too true. 👌🏾 Biggest thing to ever happen to English football. At that time I was just about to go to university in Manchester. I was a Tottenham boy born and bred, but I followed my dad who was a life long United fan. As you can imagine, those were a great 3 years for me as a football fan and as a student. 😁

[@Deano_Longley]

​@@markkofi8522went to school with nicky barmby I'm sure as a spurs fan he's made you smile once or twice,great lad by the way

[@ThePrincipality-dy1iq]

Came here via a piece on bbcr4 about the launch. They played the section from the end with the music so I had to see what it looked like as the sound brought back memories 🙂

[@aidanlynn]

Please remake this for the 30th Anniversary!

[@CARLIN4737]

Love this. Sky man changed football forever. Fantastic.

[@benjaminmears7257]

The highlight of Vinnie Jones' acting career.

[@hellosirimlookingforcrackg776]

This is so 90s I remember this when I was 5, and trying to copy that leaping header at the end of the ad

[@MrMozzo]

I remember this as a kid waiting for Rovers first season in the big time.....happy days 👌🏻

[@graham2sexy955]

Blackburn won the league in 1912 pal.

[@leeturton9254]

Rovers were good to watch back then...i can still remember the opening match of the day... rover's away to palace?...my club Wednesday were away at Everton.... waddle injured on debut

[@clarkejoseph49]

@@graham2sexy955 YA BARRED! Rovers last won the league in 1995

[@shaunnyb6383]

Feel so old watching this in 1992, wow where does the time go?

[@leeturton9254]

I was 10... I'm 40 now ffs.. feel like crying 😆

[@ab8588]

0:52 Blades and Wednesday!

[@chrisbayes2972]

John Wark utilising those acting skills learnt in 'Escape to victory'.

[@stewartduthie2162]

Amazing video abit of nostalgia there I remember this as a young boy

[@Paul-be9zn]

Oh to be back in those days..

[@tamasendredi730]

This is when you killed football, and went against the fans. And now you are dare to say that you are with the fans?

[@rohithraman6488]

As if the Sky Sports Retro admin is responsible for this 😂😂

[@mmw4990]

This could not possibly be more 90s

[@bum00789]

The intro for the 20th season of the prem was the best one “oh written in the stars” can you show us that sky sports retro?

[@SkySportsRetro]

Dan boy nice! Have just made a note.. will have a look for that!

[@Ese96Agoaye]

Dan boy Is that one that used footage from previous seasons?

[@leftpersona2518]

@@SkySportsRetro If you ever find the Sky Sports Giggs promo from about 10 years or so ago please upload it. It was a ton of clips of Giggs with the theme of Sky Sports and the Premier League and Giggs all getting better and better with age. I've never been able to find it after it was broadcast.

[@spark556]

Beautiful

[@ImmortalRimas]

They should definitely remake this ad with the same music and all for the 30th anniversary of the PL with modern day players it would fun to see!🤣

[@holysinaa]

Beautiful ❤️ I will watch this video anytime i need a mood kick

[@matthewsprague7674]

This marked the beginning of the end for Football in England. Look at where we are now. Clubs in the lower leagues going bankrupt for the amount of money premier league players make in 3 days. Kick offs at stupid times to suit Sky. Don't get me wrong, these were happier times but this was the beginning of the end.

[@lewisdevs98]

They need to remake this

[@NganNguyen-qv6zd]

This is the premier league track 1992/93 intro

[@dazediss6629]

This was one of the all time great adverts. I miss the Super Sundays from about 1995 brought to you by Sky Sports & Ford Escort. 🎶Here we goooooo. Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, THIS IS IT! 🎶

[@frey344]

Amo este Deporte ⚽ 🤧

[@kieungannguyenthi9315]

Hope retro sky sports do your best to make more new videos

[@ethanpower381]

I wonder if they'll recreate this for the European Super League

[@nickgazerro292]

That would be amazing.

[@NganNguyen-qv6zd]

Hope retro sky sports make more and more new videos

[@lewisclark1122]

Waait a minute... are those the dulcet tones of Jonathan Pearce I can hear in the background?

[@Juandiegostefan]

BEST FOOTBALL INTRO EVER

[@olivercrowley9367]

This is the most 90s thing I’ve ever seen

[@MustafaYT8]

90s nostalgic brilliance

[@clarkejoseph49]

Back when breakaway leagues didn’t make the fans angry. The Premier league has got to be the greatest thing to ever happen to English Club Football since the EFL was set up. Nowadays, if a new breakaway league is announced, it could ruin the game for good. And the intention to start the European Super league last year proved that.

[@jimmydyne]

Best ad EVER.

[@habib_dabbouba]

This commercial smells of the 90s. It transports you to that era, there is an indescribable magic and yet, I don't know this period because I'm in 2002, especially since I'm French. They should do this kind of thing again, it serves to humanize the players who are seen as robots, that's my opinion.

[@CARLIN4737]

wow things have well changed man

[@NganNguyen-qv6zd]

Is this the premier league 1992/93 intro track

[@icestray]

The premier league came out whilst the fresh prince of bel air is still on

[@NganNguyen-qv6zd]

Mong sky sports retro làm thật nhiều videos mới hơn nữa

[@thedude5600]

Back when footballers looked like old men.

[@marcuslavaggi-bowen6539]

Fantastic stuff, wonder if the 1995-96 trailer set to the tune of Queen’s “One Vision” is around on KZbin?. This one really is more of a classic though.

[@blakeash4846]

It’s not just me that remembers the “one vision” intro to that season then. Beginning to think it was just me or I had imagined it .

[@marcuslavaggi-bowen6539]

@@blakeash4846 it was on during ad breaks when Copa America games were being shown, if I’m correct.

[@NorthWalesKid]

I can’t watch this without thinking about David Mitchell

[@justinllamas1]

sky sports will cry about the super league even though they helped create the premier league, and they’ll be first in line along with BT sports to buy the rights to super league matches

[@rohithraman6488]

I'd rather have the EPL than the Super League, there's relegation and competition

[@amirhaziq5463]

Happy 30th Anniversary , @Premier League !

[@josefernandovillanuevahida8620]

They should do this every year

[@soniamaggiore9790]

Beautiful spot I'm from Genoa Italy

[@tonywilliams7152]

Can you imagine taking a knee and rainbow laces back then?

[@pietropes1322]

Looking fwd to the ESL version of this soon....

[@HPLovecraftsCat87]

The Sean Bean advert was the best IMO.

[@alDevo2024]

Football and it’s commentary was at its very best late 90s

[@reggieboy1827]

This screams Premier League Years with Georgie Thompson

[@paulgray7014]

Premier League came about to revitalise the sport. the 80s were dark days in British football. poor stadia, banned from Europe after Heysel in 1985, Bradford fire and Hillsborough meant the game had to change but sadly money has taken over the early Premier League years wasnt like that but now the gulf in the League is enormous.

[@pavise6333]

They should this again for the 30th anniversary

[@leepenfold]

Hope sky sports show some more retro matches have you got Leeds vs Liverpool 1995 Ian Darke Ian Crocker & Martin Tyler were first Commentators in 1992/1993 Season

[@rohithraman6488]

Classic matches are in the PL vault on the Sky Sports football channel

[@marksimons584]

Bring back the intro for Super Sunday 1992/93 and Bruce Hammal as voiceover.

[@priteshpatel1312]

good old days of sky sports on sundays

[@blakeash4846]

I’ve always wondered who done the voice over, thanks

[@img00]

Ah the late 80s - early 90s.. The golden age of Sky. When every football match and movie premiere was an event with great presentation and advertising, the channel indents looked premium, and the value was still there. I miss those days. They should do some sort of 35th anniversary special next year with remastered 4k versions of the idents to mark the occasion.

[@philllawrence1580]

I wonder who did the massive leap at the end looks like Darren Peacock...

[@jackjerram3550]

Weren't Swindon Town and Ipswich in the Premier League at this point?

[@s3c0ndsk1n]

Ipswich were...You can see John Wark in the clip. Swindon were promoted the year after.

[@southpawboxing4265]

Swindon were promoted in '93

[@kieungannguyenthi9315]

Mong sky sports retro hãy cố gắng hết sức mình làm thật nhiều videos mới hơn nữa

[@TheeIdol]

The year football was invented.

[@riddley39]

Chills!

[@mlc4495]

Sky TV itself probably wouldn't have survived had they not bought the exclusive rights to the new Premier League. It was literally just Eurosport at the time plus a handful of other channels for like 50+ quid a month, never mind the astronomical install fee. Oh and the dish attached to your gaff probably could have received broadcasts from other planets, the size of the thing.

[@sbaby-kg8hn]

The beginning of the end of proper English football