England 2-0 Bulgaria (1979) ECQ 

Same as the players Nigel 😳

Hahaha

Same here mate, what a talent that lets face it was pretty much squandered by England.

Yes, heard this live on Radio 2 as well. Those were the days !!

The England team should of been built round Glenn for years. An awesome talent who both as a player and manager knew how to play football.

Check eng3-0paraguay in world cup n hoddle threads a killer ball thru for first goal

He was a midfielder.

The problem with Hoddle was that although undoubtably talented, he played as though his job was to wait until someone else gave him the ball, when he would do his stuff. With his team under pressure, the supply of the ball to him could easily be cut off, and he wasn’t the kind of player who would go back and get mixed up in the rough and tumble to get it for himself as a really good player would.

@@gunternetzer9621 There has always been quality players that didn't do the rough and tumble, i.e Bobby Charlton is one perfect example he never tackled or challenged for the ball. As Brian Clough once said of Hoddle “It takes great courage to play the way Hoddle does” - and it took great intelligence to truly see how great he was. Always wanting the ball despite being a target for the so called hatchet hardmen that was about in those days.

@@gregod806I don't rate them as truly great players if they won't do the rough and tumble, unlike Alfredo Di Stefano for example. Clough was talking cobblers as he often did, he was probably pissed - wanting the ball is part of a footballer's job description so he shouldn't expect praise for that, otherwise he shouldn't be on the pitch. Disappearing is easy which Hoddle often did - v Argentina in 1986 for example. To be fair to him I think he had problems with his stamina but I can see why many managers left him out. Compare him with Paulo Roberto Falcao in 1982, just as much skill but he worked as hard as anybody else.

Nor was Cunningham, or Peter Barnes or Bryan Robson..Greenwood felt he could with a smaller midfield (4-2-4 in effect) and discard a strong left wing presence..This strategy contributed to England being overrun in the midfield with no ball winner area against Italy and exposed the full backs..

Because Greenwood was a prick.

he tended to drift out of matches..

Because he was bad in a previous life?

@@gregod806 He didn't have the stamina or athleticism to dominate. Compare him with Paulo Roberto Falcao from Brazil in 1982 - no contest.

@@gunternetzer9621 Patently you never watched him week in week out.

or gordon cowans who came into prominence just two years later..

@@kailashpatel1706 How can you even mention Cowans in the same breath??? Based on your other comments, clearly you never watched a game with any degree of understanding

@@tessajohnson9401 sorry Cowans was class, won a European cup and domestic title with Villa but could also put in a midfield shift of hard work..clearly it is you who has the deficit of understanding..

...ah..it was Francis, such a great shame that he wasted his career at such a backward, tin pot club like B'ham City, sad.