English football underwent a stellar transformation when the first season of Premier League football commenced in August 1992. The nation's most high-profile clubs found the massive injections of TV money they were now receiving gave them hitherto unprecedented opportunities to sign some of the biggest names in the game: Dennis Bergkamp, Ruud Gullit, Jurgen Klinsmann, Gianluca Vialli, Gianfranco Zola, and Gary Megson. As a club forced to cut its footballing...