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Greatest England team not to win
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 Teddy Eagle  26 May 20 10.39am |
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YT  Oxford 27 May 20 4.24pm |
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Originally posted by monkey
That’s right, I remember now, the Germans beat Spain, so we had to better their score!! I expect we’ll look back at the 2018 World Cup with a lot of nostalgia as well as we got to the semi finals, but even that wasn’t that great. We actually managed to lose 3 out of the 7 games and it was the same old story these days, as soon as we play someone decent we fall short, as in Belgium and Croatia Edited by monkey (26 May 2020 8.39am) I agree with your summary. In fact I posted similarly elsewhere, plus the point that 2 of our 3 'proper' wins were against minnows. The win on penalties was in a tie that we tried our best to chuck away. I expect there will be nostalgia, but not from me. The best I'll offer is that we progressed further than most people predicted, but in absolute terms we were pretty average.
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| ex hibitionist Hastings 27 May 20 6.04pm |
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Originally posted by YT
I agree with your summary. In fact I posted similarly elsewhere, plus the point that 2 of our 3 'proper' wins were against minnows. The win on penalties was in a tie that we tried our best to chuck away. I expect there will be nostalgia, but not from me. The best I'll offer is that we progressed further than most people predicted, but in absolute terms we were pretty average. a wee bit harsh - two of those defeats were dead rubbers, and though we proved ourselves unfit for the '1st class' carriage yet again, we were bloody good against Sweden, who were no mugs, not that classy but very hard to beat.
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| YT Oxford 27 May 20 6.19pm |
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Originally posted by ex hibitionist
a wee bit harsh - two of those defeats were dead rubbers, and though we proved ourselves unfit for the '1st class' carriage yet again, we were bloody good against Sweden, who were no mugs, not that classy but very hard to beat. Well worth an OBE!
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| ex hibitionist Hastings 27 May 20 7.27pm |
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Originally posted by YT
Well worth an OBE! only two wins from a knighthood
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| Eaglehamster Storrington 28 May 20 10.28am |
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Well I gave up expecting anything from England years ago. Look on the bright side - it keeps our Scottish friends blissfully happy.
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| monkey Sittingbourne,but made in Bromley 28 May 20 1.01pm |
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Originally posted by Eaglehamster
Well I gave up expecting anything from England years ago. Look on the bright side - it keeps our Scottish friends blissfully happy. And we’ll never be as bad as them, so we’ve always got that to hold on too
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| Teddy Eagle 28 May 20 1.04pm |
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Originally posted by Eaglehamster
Well I gave up expecting anything from England years ago. Look on the bright side - it keeps our Scottish friends blissfully happy. Not as much as if they’d qualified for anything themselves.
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| Bexley Eagle Bexley Kent 28 May 20 8.44pm |
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I was too young to remember 1970, but 1982 we had a real chance. I recall brooking and Keegan coming on for the last 20 mins and we had a couple of great chances to win by the required 2 goals. 1986 was hugely frustrating as we didn’t start playing against Argentina until we were 2 down. I still can’t believe that Lineker didn’t put that Barnes cross away.
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jeeagles  29 May 20 2.52pm |
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Went through this with a friend last night. 1986 - Lost to the winners by a hand ball and wondergoal Seems like when ever the FA have appointed someone who's not a complete clown as a manager we've done ok. I make that out of 17 tournaments, we've been beaten by the winners 4 times (3 times on penalties), finalist 3 times (twice on penalties), and been knocked out with 10 men on penalties twice. That's 9 out of 17 times we've been unfortunate not to get futher. I can't really remember a time when we've had a bit of luck. Maybe it was all saved up for the Cricket World Cup final?
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sitdownstandup  29 May 20 6.06pm |
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Originally posted by jeeagles
Went through this with a friend last night. 1986 - Lost to the winners by a hand ball and wondergoal Seems like when ever the FA have appointed someone who's not a complete clown as a manager we've done ok. I make that out of 17 tournaments, we've been beaten by the winners 4 times (3 times on penalties), finalist 3 times (twice on penalties), and been knocked out with 10 men on penalties twice. That's 9 out of 17 times we've been unfortunate not to get futher. I can't really remember a time when we've had a bit of luck. Maybe it was all saved up for the Cricket World Cup final? That last line is a cracker - ssaving all the luck up for the Cricket World cup final... although those 4 runs for Stokes were pretty jammy no doubt about that.
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| Spiderman Horsham 30 May 20 5.17pm |
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Originally posted by sitdownstandup
That last line is a cracker - ssaving all the luck up for the Cricket World cup final... although those 4 runs for Stokes were pretty jammy no doubt about that. It was indeed jammy but... f*** it was in our favour
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