Brian McAllister, Tottenham v Wimbledon, 1993 In the Premier League’s inaugural season, the whiff of glamour was still very, very distant. The games were televised, and Gazza’s tears had given the “slum sport” of the 80s a new voguishness, but the football itself left a bit to be desired. While the terraces were now largely free of bloodthirsty oafs inflicting head wounds on each other, the same could not said of the pitch. No team better illustrated the Premier League’s early years than Wimbledon, the small south London club who kept their head above water with a potent combination of grit, guts and route-one punts. The Premier League would eventually wave goodbye to Wimbledon as it morphed into a place of wealth and flair, but in its first season the Crazy Gang finished comfortably in mid-table, their bullish presence a sign of the sport’s cheery unreconstructedness. In more immediate need of reconstruction, however, was the forehead of Spurs midfielder Paul Allen after deciding to contest a 50/50 challenge with Wimbledon’s Glaswegian defender Brian McAllister in an otherwise unremarkable 1-1 draw in May 1993. When an aimless clearance led to a game of head-tennis in midfield, McAllister leapt elbow-first towards a…