November 16, 1996. A cosmopolitan Chelsea side take to the field at Ewood Park, about to play out an unremarkable 1-1 draw with Blackburn.
Hardly the sexiest game of the sexy football era under player-manager Ruud Gullit, but the 'new Chelsea' was well underway. Summer captures Gianluca Vialli, Roberto Di Matteo and Frank Lebouef had put the west London side at the forefront of the Premier League's new foreign invasion.
Their newest continental recruit, a £4.3million signing from Parma the previous week, took to the field for the first time in a bright-yellow No 25 shirt, at least two sizes too big.