Football Association Challenge Cup-winning manager John Sillett spotted the teenage sensation during a pre-season tour in Zimbabwe in 1988, but it was his successor Terry Butcher who signed the Zimbabwean for Coventry City FC in June 1991.
Ndlovu did not have to wait long to make his debut, which came on 21st August 1991, when he became the first African to play in the Premier League.
He made an instant impact by scoring away at Arsenal, but he made a name for himself at Highfield Road, after scoring a screamer against Aston Villa in November.
