SUITS YOU, LADS

Liverpool bring sartorial splendour to May’s drab FA Cup final, sporting cream Armani suits before a match which Eric Cantona settles with an 85th-minute winner. The Reds’ clobber only adds to the Spice Boys tag – attached to the cabal of Steve Mcmanaman, Robbie Fowler, Jamie Redknapp and Jason Mcateer – which becomes increasingly pejorative. “It was all a bit stupid,” Fowler later told FFT. “I lent the suit to the National Football Museum – it was in the bottom of the wardrobe.”