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View Teddy Eagle's Profile Teddy Eagle Flag 26 May 20 10.39am Send a Private Message to Teddy Eagle Add Teddy Eagle as a friend


Had we been able to take penalties in 1990 we’d have probably beaten Argentina in the final.

 

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View YT's Profile YT Flag Oxford 27 May 20 4.24pm Send a Private Message to YT Add YT as a friend

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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View ex hibitionist's Profile ex hibitionist Flag Hastings 27 May 20 6.04pm Send a Private Message to ex hibitionist Add ex hibitionist as a friend

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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View YT's Profile YT Flag Oxford 27 May 20 6.19pm Send a Private Message to YT Add YT as a friend

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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Originally posted by YT

Well worth an OBE!

only two wins from a knighthood

 

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View Eaglehamster's Profile Eaglehamster Flag Storrington 28 May 20 10.28am Send a Private Message to Eaglehamster Add Eaglehamster as a friend

Well I gave up expecting anything from England years ago.
We are just shyte in competitions.

Look on the bright side - it keeps our Scottish friends blissfully happy.

 


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View monkey's Profile monkey Flag Sittingbourne,Kent 28 May 20 1.01pm Send a Private Message to monkey Add monkey as a friend

Originally posted by Eaglehamster

Well I gave up expecting anything from England years ago.
We are just shyte in competitions.

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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View Teddy Eagle's Profile Teddy Eagle Flag 28 May 20 1.04pm Send a Private Message to Teddy Eagle Add Teddy Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Eaglehamster

Well I gave up expecting anything from England years ago.
We are just shyte in competitions.

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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View Bexley Eagle's Profile Bexley Eagle Flag Bexley Kent 28 May 20 8.44pm Send a Private Message to Bexley Eagle Add Bexley Eagle as a friend

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.
In 1990 we just road our luck. The teams since then have all been overhyped and under achieved except of course 2018 where we clearly overachieved having taken advantage of a decent draw, although I can’t help feeling that having got a semi against a very beatable Croatia we really should have got to the final.

 

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jeeagles Flag 29 May 20 2.52pm

Went through this with a friend last night.
Certainly in my life time we've been pretty unlucky

1986 - Lost to the winners by a hand ball and wondergoal
1988 - No one cared about the Euro's til 96.
1990 - Lost to the winners on penalties
1992 - F*cking Thomas Brolin
1994 - I do not like that
1996 - Lost to the winners on penalties
1998 - Had a player sent of, Campbell had a goal disallowed, still only went out on penalties
2000 - We were s*** but beat the Germans
2002 - Lost to the winners
2004 - Lost to the hosts and finalists with a goal disallowed on penalties
2006 - Went out with 10 men on penalties
2008 - Wally with a brolly
2010 - Lampard scored
2012 - Lost to the finalist on penalties.
2014 - Roy Hodgson said the group was hard
2016 - How did Roy get a 3rd touranment?
2018 - Semi finalists

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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View sitdownstandup's Profile sitdownstandup Flag 29 May 20 6.06pm Send a Private Message to sitdownstandup Add sitdownstandup as a friend

Originally posted by jeeagles

Went through this with a friend last night.
Certainly in my life time we've been pretty unlucky

1986 - Lost to the winners by a hand ball and wondergoal
1988 - No one cared about the Euro's til 96.
1990 - Lost to the winners on penalties
1992 - F*cking Thomas Brolin
1994 - I do not like that
1996 - Lost to the winners on penalties
1998 - Had a player sent of, Campbell had a goal disallowed, still only went out on penalties
2000 - We were s*** but beat the Germans
2002 - Lost to the winners
2004 - Lost to the hosts and finalists with a goal disallowed on penalties
2006 - Went out with 10 men on penalties
2008 - Wally with a brolly
2010 - Lampard scored
2012 - Lost to the finalist on penalties.
2014 - Roy Hodgson said the group was hard
2016 - How did Roy get a 3rd touranment?
2018 - Semi finalists

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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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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