Since July 2010, having joined commentator Ian Darke and former Germany coach Jürgen Klinsmann as well as Dutch International Ruud Gullit on the ESPN coverage team as a commentary analyst for the 2010 World Cup, McManaman has since signed on with the network to be an in-game analyst for the Major League Soccer, Premier League, and even 2013 Confederations Cup and FIFA World Cup 2014, and has become a permanent co-commentator alongside Ian Darke.

England eventually were eliminated in the semi-finals of the competition ; Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA " Team of the Tournament ".

That summer, Paul Ince, David James, Jason McAteer, Rob Jones, Tony Warner and Steve Harkness were all sold, while Steve McManaman left on a Bosman free.

The term was subsequently used in a derogatory manner, implying Fowler and colleagues such as Jamie Redknapp, Stan Collymore, David James and Steve McManaman were underachieving playboys.

The goal was followed by the " Dentist's chair " celebration referring to an incident before the Euro 1996, where England team players were photographed on a drunken night with Gascoigne, Teddy Sheringham and Steve McManaman shown drinking in a dentist's chair, as well as causing thousands of pounds worth of damage to a Cathay Pacific first class flight cabin.

He was one of a number of young players coming through the team, such as Steve McManaman and Robbie Fowler, but was criticised together with them and others like Stan Collymore and Jason McAteer as " Spice Boys " – a derogatory term that implied that the team were epitomising the lad culture in the game.

James rose to fame together with Liverpool teammates Steve McManaman, Jamie Redknapp, and Robbie Fowler, who were nicknamed the " Spice Boys " – an epithet named after the Spice Girls that was used by those who alleged the Liverpool team of the 1990s were more focused on partying than winning games.

The decade also saw footballers merge into the popular culture scene and sporting stars like Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman were oft labelled by the British media as being scally characters as well as Spice Boys, lending the term an air of innuendo and hedonism.

By this stage, however, Whelan's days in the Liverpool first team were looking numbered, as the midfield was now featuring recent signings like Mark Walters and Michael Thomas, as well as breakthrough stars Steve McManaman and Jamie Redknapp.

He also gave further first-team opportunities to youngsters Steve McManaman, Jamie Redknapp and Robbie Fowler, who at the time were among the hottest prospects in English football.

Ince won no honours in his first season with Liverpool as his new club were in the midst of a transitional period where they were cast as ' nearly men ' and, rather derogatorily, ' Spice Boys ' – a term coined to describe the likes of team mates and good friends of Ince's like Steve McManaman, Robbie Fowler, Jason McAteer and Jamie Redknapp as underachieving playboys in the game ; the term itself is derived from the name of the contemporary pop-group, the Spice Girls.

It proved a successful decision as McManaman began mesmerising defences with runs that were later to become hallmarks of the Liverpool side of the 1990s.

McManaman was credited for making the role manager Evans gave him work, with the result being that Liverpool were playing some of the most aesthetically pleasing attacking football at the time in England.

McManaman and other teammates were reported to have cashed in on their new found fame as stars of the nascent Premier League, to live a high life involving groupies, clubbing and other " high jinks ".

Fernando Redondo, Nicolas Anelka, Christian Karembeu and McManaman were suddenly told they were surplus to requirements before the start of the 2000-01 season and were sold.

With the club already in debt, and having just spent another £ 37m on Figo, the board were keen to cash in on McManaman and remove his $ 4. 5m salary from the wage bill.

A Sky Sports report in August 2000 also stated that eight other clubs were racing for his signature at the time, including Manchester United, Parma and Fiorentina, but McManaman remained adamant even as Sir Alex Ferguson also declared his admiration for McManaman by arranging a contingent to convince him to sign but McManaman said he wanted to succeed in Spain.

According to certain critics in the Spanish press, McManaman and several other players became " victims " as the policy was based more on marketing and revenue generation, and sometimes meant players were picked not according to form, but because of their money-making potential off the pitch.

Suggestions that McManaman had " sold out " for money and had grown indifferent and lackadaisical to his football were rampant in the British Press, though the media were also described as suffering from " a selective media amnesia over McManaman's time in Spain.

McManaman then went on to take up opportunities for Asia's largest football broadcasters, ESPN Star, in Singapore in 2006, where he worked alongside commentator John Dykes and ex-players such as fellow ex-Liverpool star Steve McMahon.

In a notorious incident in a Merseyside derby that year, Grobelaar even physically assaulted young team mate Steve McManaman.

Despite missing most of the 1995 – 96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included compatriots like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham.

McManaman created and scored several crucial goals in the league and FA Cup, and his performances in his first season established him as a regular first team player.

However this form faltered following a confidence drop after an incident with Bruce Grobbelaar towards the end of a Merseyside derby, when the players exchanged blows after Grobelaar lambasted McManaman for a poor clearance which led to a goal being conceded ( an incident later named as one of the top five bust ups between team mates in Premier League history ).

" Roy Evans, attempting to diminish the attention on marking McManaman, stated " I would hate to think we are no more than a one-man team.

McManaman was also criticised for scoring too few goals, although he did make up for this with a formidable rate of assists for the likes of Fowler and later Michael Owen, with Owen saying that " Liverpool at the time was built around McManaman " and was an average team whenever McManaman was not on form.

McManaman claimed that he was being exploited: " I signed the Umbro contract when I was an inexperienced 18-year-old, before I had got into the first team.

When Mark Lawrenson and Jim Beglin named McManaman in their team of the 1990s, they said that most managers in the league used the same tactic of marking McManaman to stop Liverpool and whilst it was a tremendous compliment to McManaman, the opposition could stop Liverpool because the tactical system of 3-5-2 or 3-4-1-2 was too dependent on McManaman and would fail if McManaman was off form, or if the team was not complemented by a quality defence ( players who could play both wingback and centre half to cope with onslaughts ), or the presence of a steely defensive midfielder, which was what happened with the team of that time.

In 1999, Steve McManaman became the most lucrative transfer at the time in British football, as " Britain ’ s first high-profile Bosman departure ", when he moved from Liverpool to Real Madrid and the deal resulted in McManaman once becoming the highest paid British player in history, for the years 1999 through 2001.

Fowler's partnership with Steve McManaman was largely described as the reason why Liverpool had become the club known for being the most potent attacking force in England at the time, and Fowler was renowned for scoring goals of all varieties, from every angle and distance, with McManaman describing him as the " greatest goalscorer of all time.

The arrival of close friend, Steve McManaman, from Real Madrid gave Fowler hope, but the pair failed to rekindle their prolific partnership from their time at Liverpool, and received criticism from the fans and tabloids for their salaries, alleged excesses as well as named and shamed in a sex scandal covered by the News of the World that year.

In June 2008, Fowler participated alongside McManaman in Steve Nash and Claudio Reyna's Showdown in Chinatown, an 8-on-8 charity soccer game at Sara D. Roosevelt Park in Manhattan with McManaman making five of the goals, including one for Fowler.

Šmicer joined Liverpool for a fee of £ 4. 2 million, recruited to fill the void left by the departure of Steve McManaman to Real Madrid.

Nedvěd was instrumental in leading Juventus into the 2003 Champions League final against Milan, but he was forced to sit out the final because of accumulation of yellow cards, after being booked in the semi-final for tackling Real Madrid midfielder Steve McManaman.

New coach Vicente del Bosque utilised him in a powerful midfield combination with Steve McManaman ; in the quarterfinals against Manchester United at Old Trafford, he was the author of a spectacular play in which he dribbled past defender Henning Berg by backheeling the ball around him, recovering it and assisting Raúl for Real Madrid's third goal ( 3 – 2 win, 3 – 2 on aggregate ).

In 1991 – 92, Saunders partnered Ian Rush ( also his strike partner for Wales ) in attack, backed by young Steve McManaman which saw the club win the FA Cup for the fifth time in its history in manager Graeme Souness's first full season in charge.

He has also been responsible for recruiting other former English football stars like Les Ferdinand and fellow ex-Liverpool players, Ian Rush and Steve McManaman, and was part of the draw for bringing them onto the shows like " Football Focus ", " Final Score " and for coverage of live FA Premier League matches.

Established players such as John Barnes, Mark Wright and Ian Rush blended well with these young stars as Liverpool finished fourth in the Premier League with 74 points and triumphed in the Football League Cup, beating Bolton Wanderers 2 – 1 with two McManaman goals, and winning the competition for a record fifth time.

Evans strengthened his side that was built around McManaman and Fowler, with the acquisition of Czech midfielder Patrik Berger over the summer of 1996, but by the end of the 1996 – 97 season all the talk around Anfield was about a promising 17-year-old striker, Michael Owen, who had shown tremendous potential in a handful of games for the club.

Robinson, who won 24 caps for the Republic of Ireland, stayed in Spain after retiring, having settled very well in the country and learned the language to fluency, a trait that was later picked up on by Steve McManaman ( with Real Madrid from 1999 – 2003 ), who regarded Robinson as his mentor.

The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming on as a late substitute for Steve McManaman in a 0 – 0 draw with Poland.

He is also notable for a contractual saga in the late 1990s, that resulted in his football transfer becoming one of the most controversial and high profile Bosman ruling related transfers of all time, with the deal resulting in McManaman once becoming the highest paid British player in history, for the years 1999 through 2001.

McManaman grew up as an Everton supporter, but when Everton offered the player a one year contract after making a name for himself at tournaments for school and around Merseyside, McManaman's father rejected it in favour of a schoolboy contract and two year apprenticeship offer from Liverpool.