The Premier League is back – but the Barclaysmen never left. Cult heroes took over during the international break and you couldn't escape them on social.
The Cultras Football Podcast may just have saved social media with their hashtag, #Barclaysmen, celebrating the underappreciated heroes of the noughties who made the Premier League the best on Earth. These are the midtable hitmen; the Lancashire Pirlos and Midlands Maldinis; the journeymen who wound up in Wigan or Middlesbrough or Bolton or Blackburn – whose video highlights have been immortalised alongside indie sleaze of the era. 1899INE on social deserves credit, too, for helping to define the video style.
