In many ways, football was much simpler in the 1990s: the only way to immerse yourself in transfer nonsense was to force your parents to remortgage their house after spending £1 a minute ringing ClubCall to find out who your big SERIE A GOAL ACE summer signing was going to be, Football Focus was still at the cutting edge of top-flight news, and the idea of a World Cup in Qatar was like something out of a Sega MegaDrive game.