They say 90 minutes can be a long time in football, but what about a decade?
The 2010s have been a rollercoaster ride for fans of English football. Sir Alex Ferguson retired, Manchester City arrived and stayed at the summit of the Premier League, Chelsea and Liverpool won the Champions League while Wolves dropped down to League One before surging back up to the Premier League and into the Europa League.
But how did the 20 Premier League sides currently in the top-flight start the decade and who was playing for them at the time?
Manchester United began a topsy-turvy decade with a 1-0 defeat at home to Leeds in the FA Cup thanks to a Jermaine Beckford solo effort. Liverpool and Newcastle didn't get off to the best of starts either, being held at lower to lower league opposition in Reading and Plymouth Argyle respectively.
It could have been worse though – they could have been miles away from the Premier League. That was the case for Norwich and Bournemouth, who started the 2010s in League One and League Two respectively.
Eddie Howe's Bournemouth side lost 2-0 at home to Northampton to kick-start 2010 – could any of their fans have then predicted that they would be an established Premier League side 10 years later?
And what about the players? Current Arsenal defender Shkodran Mustafi started the decade as an unused substitute at Everton, while Kieran Trippier was warming the bench for Manchester City away at Middlesbrough.
Speaking of City, they did not exactly have the stellar front three then that they currently have now, as before the likes of Raheem Sterling, Sergio Aguero and Riyad Mahrez, they had Vladimir Weiss, Benjani and Martin Petrov.
Here is the full list of each club's first result and team sheet of the decade…
AFC BOURNEMOUTH
Bournemouth 0-2 Northampton Town (League Two – January 2, 2010)
Starting XI: Shwan Jalal; Ryan Garry, Jason Pearce, Liam Feeney, Danny Hollands; Sammy Igoe, Joe Partington, Anton Robinson; Lee Bradbury, Alan Connell, Brett Pitman
Subs: Dan Thomas, Scott Guyett, Josh McQuoid, Steve Fletcher, Jeff Goulding
ARSENAL
West Ham United 1-2 Arsenal (FA Cup Third Round – January 3, 2010)
Starting XI: Lukasz Fabianksi; Bacary Sagna, William Gallas, Mikael Silvestre, Thomas Vermaelen; Alex Song, Aaron Ramsey, Jack Wilshere; Fran Merida, Eduardo, Carlos Vela
Subs: Vito Mannone, Kerrea Gilbert, Craig Eastmond, Armand Traore, Abou Diaby, Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, Samir Nasri
ASTON VILLA
Aston Villa 3-1 Blackburn Rovers (FA Cup Third Round – January 2, 2010)
Starting XI: Brad Guzan; Habib Beye, Carlos Cuellar, James Collins, Stephen Warnock; Ashley Young, Nigel Reo-Coker, Fabian Delph, Stewart Downing; Nathan Delfouneso, Emile Heskey
Subs: Brad Friedel, Luke Young, Richard Dunne, Marc Albrighton, Stilian Petrov, Steve Sidwell, John Carew
BRIGHTON
Torquay 0-1 Brighton and Hove Albion (FA Cup Third Round – January 2, 2010)
Starting XI: Michel Kuipers; Gavin Hoyte, Jim McNulty, James Tunnicliffe, Adam Virgo; Dean Cox, Andrew Crofts, Gary Dicker; Liam Dickinson, Nicky Forster, Glenn Murray
Subs: Peter Brezovan, Tommy Elphick, Andy Whing, Elliott Bennett, Alan Navarro, Gary Hart, Craig Davies.
BURNLEY
MK Dons 1-2 Burnley (FA Cup Third Round – January 2, 2010)
Starting XI: Brian Jensen; Andre Bikey, Richard Eckersley, Michael Duff, Christian Kalvenes; Chris Eagles, Graham Alexander, Wade Elliott, Kevin McDonald; Robbie Blake, Steven Fletcher
Subs: Diego Penny, Brian Easton, David Edgar, Joey Gudjonsson, Fernando Guerrero, Alex-Ray Harvey, Steven Thompson
CHELSEA
Chelsea 5-0 Watford (FA Cup Third Round – January 3, 2010)
Starting XI: Hilario; Branislav Ivanovic , Alex, John Terry, Ashley Cole; Juliano Belletti, Frank Lampard, Florent Malouda, Joe Cole, Yuri Zhirkov; Daniel Sturridge
Subs: Ross Turnbull, Ricardo Carvalho, Paulo Ferreira, Michael Ballack , Nemanja Matic, Gael Kakuta, Fabio Borini
CRYSTAL PALACE
Sheffield Wednesday 1-2 Crystal Palace (FA Cup Third Round – January 2, 2010)
Starting XI: Julian Speroni; Nathaniel Clyne, Clint Hill, Jose Fonte, Johnny Ertl; Neil Danns, Claude Davis, Shaun Derry, Darren Ambrose; Sean Scannell, Alan Lee
Subs: Alex Wynter, James Comley, Alasanna N'Diaye, Calvin Andrew
EVERTON
Everton 3-1 Carlisle United (FA Cup Third Round – January 2, 2010)
Starting XI: Tim Howard; Tony Hibbert, Johnny Heitinga, Lucas Neill, Leighton Baines; Steven Pienaar, Phil Neville, Marouane Fellaini, Diniyar Bilyaletdinov; Tim Cahill; James Vaughan
Subs: Carlo Nash, Shkodran Mustafi, Shane Duffy, Seamus Coleman, Adam Forshaw, Jose Baxter, Kieran Agard
LEICESTER CITY
Leicester City 2-1 Swansea City (FA Cup Third Round – January 2, 2010)
Starting XI: Chris Weale; Robbie Neilson, Jack Hobbs, Michael Morrison, Ryan McGivern; Lloyd Dyer, Andy King, Matt Oakley, Richie Wellens; Matt Fryatt, Steve Howard
Subs: Conrad Logan, Luke O'Neill, Tom Parkes, Nicky Adams, Dany N'Guessan, Paul Gallagher, Yann Kermorgant
LIVERPOOL
Reading 1-1 Liverpool (FA Cup Third Round – January 2, 2010)
Starting XI: Pepe Reina; Stephen Darby, Jamie Carragher, Martin Skrtel, Fabio Aurelio; Dirk Kuyt, Lucas Leiva, Steven Gerrard, Emiliano Insua; David N'Gog, Fernando Torres
Subs: Diego Cavalieri, Phillip Degen, Sotiris Kyrgiakos, Alberto Aquilani, Yossi Benayoun, Jay Spearing, Ryan Babel
MANCHESTER CITY
Middlesbrough 0-1 Manchester City (FA Cup Third Round – January 2, 2010)
Starting XI: Shay Given; Pablo Zabaleta, Micah Richards, Diedryck Boyata, Silvinho; Vincent Kompany, Javier Garrido, Nigel De Jong; Vladimir Weiss, Benjani, Martin Petrov
Subs: Stuart Taylor, Javan Vidal, Gareth Barry, Kieran Trippier, Andy Tutte, Craig Bellamy, Carlos Tevez
MANCHESTER UNITED
Manchester United 0-1 Leeds United (FA Cup Third Round January 3, 2010)
Starting XI: Tomasz Kuszczak; Gary Neville, Wes Brown, Jonny Evans, Fabio; Anderson, Darron Gibson, Wayne Rooney; Gabriel Obertan, Dimitar Berbatov, Danny Welbeck
Subs: Ben Amos, Rafael, Antonio Valencia, Michael Carrick, Ryan Giggs, Zoran Tosic, Michael Owen
NEWCASTLE UNITED
Plymouth Argyle 0-0 Newcastle United (FA Cup Third Round – January 2, 2010)
Starting XI: Tim Krul; Danny Simpson, Fabricio Coloccini, Tamas Kadar, Ryan Taylor; Nicky Butt, Danny Guthrie, Alan Smith; Nile Ranger, Shola Ameobi, Fabrice Pancrate
Subs: Steve Harper, Jonas Gutierrez, Ben Tozer, Jose Enrique, Ryan Donaldson, Andy Carroll, Peter Lovenkrands
NORWICH CITY
Wycombe Wanderers 0-1 Norwich City (League One – January 2, 2010)
Starting XI: Fraser Forster; Russell Martin, Gary Doherty, Michael Nelson, Adam Drury; Simon Lappin, Korey Smith, Darel Rusell; Wes Hoolahan; Grant Holt, Chris Martin
Subs: Jed Steer, Jon Ostemobor, Tom Adeyemi, Josh Dawkin, Matt Gill, Anthony McNamee, Cody McDonald
SHEFFIELD UNITED
Sheffield United 1-1 Queen's Park Rangers (FA Cup Third Round – January 3, 2010)
Starting XI: Mark Bunn; Derek Geary, Chris Morgan, Matt Kilgallon, Andy Taylor; Jamie Ward, Nick Montgomery, Stephen Quinn; Richard Cresswell, Henri Camara, Ched Evans
Subs: Ian Bennett, Marcel Seip, Ryan France, James Harper, Glen Little, Kyel Reid, Lee Williamson
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
Tottenham 4-0 Peterborough (FA Cup Third Round – January 2, 2010)
Starting XI: Heurelho Gomes; Alan Hutton, Michael Dawson, Sebastien Bassong, Gareth Bale; Niko Kranjcar, Tom Huddlestone, Wilson Palacios, Luka Modric; Jermain Defoe, Robbie Keane
Subs: Ben Alnwick, Vedran Corluka, Kyle Naughton, Danny Rose, Giovanni Dos Santos, Peter Crouch, Roman Pavlyuchenko
WATFORD
Chelsea 5-0 Watford (FA Cup Third Round – January 3, 2010)
Starting XI: Scott Loach; Lee Hodson, Jay DeMerit, Adrian Mariappa, Lloyd Doyley; Scott Severin, Don Cowie, John Eustace, Tom Cleverly, Henri Lansbury; Danny Graham
Subs: Richard Lee, Dale Bennett, Jon Harley, Rob Kiernan, Ross Jenkins, Liam Henderson, Will Hoskins
WEST HAM UNITED
West Ham United 1-2 Arsenal (FA Cup Third Round – January 3, 2010)
Starting XI: Rob Green; Fabio Daprela, James Tomkins, Matthew Upson, Radoslav Kovac; Valon Behrami, Julien Faubert, Alessandro Diamanti; Luis Jimenez, Frank Nouble, Junior Stanislas
Subs: Marek Stech, Manuel Da Costa, Anthony Edgar, Bondz N'Gala, Josh Payne, Olly Lee, Freddie Sears
WOLVES
Tranmere Rovers 0-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers (FA Cup Third Round – January 3, 2010)
Starting XI: Wayne Hennessy; Kevin Foley, Richard Stearman, Jody Craddock, Stephen Ward; Michael Mancienne, Karl Henry, Nenad Milijas; Chris Iwelumo, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, Matt Jarvis
Subs: Marcus Hahnemann, George Elokobi, Ronald Zubar, Greg Halford, David Jones, Drew Surman, Sam Vokes
