Euro 96 ITV 4

[give it to gordon]

Robson’s tactics were terrible against Cameroon in this game. A fucking sweeper! They had an extra man in midfield all half then.

I thought the same a midfield of Gazza and Platt wouldnt win you many !

 

[Mike N]

I think what's put paid to any England success is a lack of a manager with any tactical nouse, Venables being the exception
Look at the squads Keegan and Eriksson had and Southgate has

Jesus wept! I was only thinking about that watching World Cup Rewind this afternoon. England in the last World Cup. If ever they had a chance to get to the final, this was it.

The manager’s main tactic was to wear a waistcoat FFS! It didn’t help that half the team wouldn’t have got into another potential winner’s team.

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

Berger was decent for your lot, Poborsky was pretty turd for United if I remember rightly. A bit like Cruyff and Blomqvist (sp) dog shite

Loved Euro 96, should have beaten the Germans. Mullers celebration at the end, I wish someone had thrown a quid at his head!!

Aye. If Gazza had some KFC and fishing rods, maybe he'd have turned up quicker, for THAT tap in.

 

[Crouchinho]

Aye. If Gazza had some KFC and fishing rods, maybe he'd have turned up quicker, for THAT tap in.

All ifs and buts, I thought he was pretty lean that tournament too! Knowing our luck we would have lost in the final

It reminds me of when we pissed all over Germany in Italia 90 too, it just wasn't to be. We rode our luck against Cameroon in Italia 90 and Spain in Euro 96

 

[Crouchinho]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.da...-Dentist-s-Chair-backlash-helped-England.html


Makes me sad reading about this tournament. Such emotion. I think the whole country felt gutted about it

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

All ifs and buts, I thought he was pretty lean that tournament too! Knowing our luck we would have lost in the final

It reminds me of when we pissed all over Germany in Italia 90 too, it just wasn't to be. We rode our luck against Cameroon in Italia 90 and Spain in Euro 96

I was just taking the piss. Watched the Cameroon game this afternoon. We rode our luck. Shilton's keeping and them not so composed in front of goal, let us off the hook.

 

[Cellarite]

I can't watch it, I get a bit too emotional - especially after an almost entire reservoir of beer has been tipped down my throat and I'm at the 'I-could've-been-someone. I-could've-been-a-contender' stage, full of remorse and self-pity as I gaze forlornly back on my life. A life choc-a-bloc with unsavoury incidents: doing a runner from the local Chinese, thumping a taxi driver for no reason, hiding behind the sofa when the bailiffs come, spewing my guts up on the neighbour's prized carnations, breaking wind louder than is biologically necessary, and stumbling through my front door in a disturbingly heightened state of drunkeness in the early hours of the morning and telling the wife I've been nowhere, I've done nothing and I haven't spoken to anyone.

Anyway, back to the point in question. Yep, England could have been world-beaters back then: we had some some great players and we were quite a team. But then came the obligatory rag/dipper player, shoe-horned into the side at the expense of some other poor sap, and the word 'mediocre' applied liberally by the media to everything England did on the pitch.

Sad days.

You fucker. It’s quarter past four in the morning and it’s just taken me about 5-10 minutes to read this because I was in hysterics after each “unsavoury incident”.

If my laughing has woken the missus upstairs, you can explain to her why I’m giggling like fuck on the couch with a duvet at this hour.

Possibly the funniest post in my 10 years on Bluemoon. I’ll be keeping an eye out for you from now on you rum ****.

 

[ali benarbia's studs]

the commentary at some of those games was comical, you d swear it was made up in the Viz`s billy the fish stories.

 

[mat]

Venables was a manager of his time. Although if he’d come along 20 years later he’d suit the game now in a dodgy as fuck kind of way making Harry Bentwatt look Innocent.

 

[manimanc]

Got the Scotland match ready to tape later and the Holland one next Wednesday.