Dunphy was always a poisonous fucker,
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Venables âgotâ how to bring an England team together and make it a really happy camp. They would have had a right shout of winning the 1998 World Cup had he remained in charge.
Hoddle was a terrible personality fit as England manager.
Venables is a key figure in the glorious English renaissance summer of 1996, which seemed to channel the folk memory of 1966, 1967 and 1990 into one brief but explosive whole. Nothing remotely like it has happened since, it had all come tumbling down by the end of summer 1997 and it seemed completely appropriate in hindsight that Venablesâ tenure as England manager ended the moment Andreas Moller stood with his hands on his hips staring at the Wembley crowd.
The moment Teddy Sheringham faked to shoot and then caressed the ball gently into the path of Alan Shearer who nearly burst the Dutch net was one of the apex English renaissance moments.
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They were very lucky to beat Spain in the quarters of that tournament. Spain had two goals chalked off for dodgy offsides.
They then failed to beat a pretty average German team.
That team seems to be regarded in the highest regard given the atmosphere around England at the time but the reality is that they werenât really that great.
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Keep it Tottenham related guys or take it to the appropriate thread.
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Didnt dunphy and giles push for paul jewel ahead of venables
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They were outplayed by Scotland and Switzerland too. Scotâs missed a pen and all
Something a bit similar could be said about Ireland at Italia '90. In truth, we were a pox on the tournament.
But people never forget the way somebody made them feel.
England were the team at Euro â96. There was little else that was interesting about the tournament. England were interesting, they were thrilling in truth, even if that Spain game was a dour oulâ struggle, and bejaysus it was.
Englandâs journey through that tournament was a journey. Poor the first day out against Switzerland. Even worse in the first half against Scotland. And thenâŚ
The next three halves of football, against Scotland and Holland put English football and English society riding an incredible wave.
The moment before the Germany semi-final where the crowd sang Footballâs Coming Home was a genuine wow moment that still endures and I think it was very sociologically significant, but Iâve never quite worked out the exact meaning of the moment.
England v Germany 1996 was a great game.
You could pick out a lot of moments from Englandâs Euro '96 that have endured in the way moments from other international tournaments havenât at all.
Everything seemed to come together that summer.
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Weâre down to the bare bones today for the visit of high flying Aston Villa. 10 of our first team squad missing through injuries and suspension. Such is the extent of the casualty list, weâre not even able to fill
our full compliment of subs.
El Tel was an alright sort, very charismatic.
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some emotion
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Unreal bud
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El Tel tried his best to save Gazza from himself, he got the best out of him. They were great years.
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A screamer from Lo Celso puts the depleted home team 1-0 up.
And the lead lasts about a minute as Watkins levels up.
VAR might save us. Looks offsideâish.
We take a desrved 1-0 lead and Villa respond immediatly
VAR says no
A reprieve. Marginal but Watkins was fractionally offside.