Michu and 7 other Premier League one-season wonders who took English football by storm

You had to be there. You had to witness their blink-and-you'll-miss-it greatness.

Since the division's inception in 1992, the Premier League can boast about showcasing some of football's finest to ever grace the game, but there's one category of players so special that they can define a single year in what has been three decades of brilliance and drama : the one-season wonder.

Forget Cristiano Ronaldo, Thierry Henry, Wayne Rooney or Alan Shearer - they'll always have their time in the spotlight. It's only on rare occasions that we can celebrate one of English football's cult heroes who came as quickly as he disappeared. That man? Michu. The Swansea City icon is imprinted on the 2013-14 season like David Moyes ' Manchester United side thanks to his sensational debut captain, and he turns 36 today.

To celebrate the Spaniard's birthday, Mirror Football takes a look at those who join him in Premier League folklore after one sole scintillating term that saw them explode to stardom and become staples of fantasy football teams across the globe. Here's Michu and seven more one-season wonders.

When Swansea paid Rayo Vallecano £2million in July 2013, a middling striker with 17 goals in 39 games the previous season hardly turned any heads outside of south Wales. But fast forward to a spectacular debut month in which Michu led the goalscoring charts, he looked like the bargain of the summer, introducing himself to English football by bagging a brace and registering an assist on the opening day against Queens Park Rangers.

Michu had 13 league goals by Christmas, earning himself a lucrative new four-year contract as interest hotted up. Three more came in the League Cup, helping the Swans win their first major honour before