The Streets Won't Forget: Premier League cult heroes

Premier League cult heroes are the players remembered for moments rather than medals: a volley, a season, a name that still gets a cheer twenty years on. "The streets won't forget" is what fans say about them, and these are the players we mean, one story at a time, from 1995/96 onwards.

A cult hero, for us, is not the best player of his era and usually not the most decorated. He is the one a particular set of fans still talk about: the striker who scored the goal of the decade and then drifted away, the keeper who stayed when better-paid clubs came calling, the winger who was brilliant for one season and nobody quite knows why it stopped. Some won things. Most did not. Every one of them left a mark that outlasted their trophies.

Each story tells you who he was, how he arrived, the moment people remember, why it stuck, and where he is now. Every player here is in our game at the price his season earned him, so when you have finished reading you can draft him and see what he does for your fantasy side.

New stories every week or two. Got a player the streets won't forget? Tell us.