England 3-0 Poland (1989) WCQ 

I’m with you.

I'm with you here.

he was playing well in in the england's friendlies of this time inc against greece and the away match against Albania, the last England squad i ever rated..he did not even make the squad though, what depth did that team have..

Too True.👍 ;-(

Tragic

Yes. Not much quality on the Polish side. 'Twas the beginning of a severe drought for them.

+John Ruby His pure positional instinct was incredible. His 'open play' is criticised because he doesn't actually do much on the ball, but to call him lazy as some have is totally untrue. He simply knew his role and knew how to keep it devestatingly simple. Just be where you are supposed to be. He got so many goals simply by standing in the correct place. Instinct.

What rubbish Lineker was an average player ..not even in the first fifty ..he was an opportunist kind of player only thinking about himself apart from Bryan Robson or Peter Beardsley..Webb and Hateley were superb .. Barnes not really in form.. England were not that good team and Bobby Robson did not do enough research but expected too much from a over rated team..our football strategy was far behind from Brazil France Argentina Germany and Italy

@@darrylfernandes4806 The key to Lineker that not many realise was he was one of the fastest players ever over about 10 to 30 yards. Howard Kendall makes this point. Which is exactly what you need as an on the shoulder number 9. Any kind of half decent run put him into space beyond a defender. He could finish too. And had his fair share of luck

​@darrylfernandes4806 except when we played West Germany in the semi. We outplayed them and showed a quality hitherto unseen and never again. The only time we showed class in possession.

@@darrylfernandes4806You don't really understand much about football, dude. Lineker is easily one of the best strikers England have ever had. He was in the team to score goals and he did it in bucket loads. More importantly, he did it on the big occasions. He scored way more goals than Hateley (who can't even be talked about in the same breath) and comparisons with midfielders are trite, they're in the team to do different things. Your mentions of Bobby Robson are a straw man argument, this is a discussion about Lineker who was a quality striker who knew how to be in the right place at the right time and score goals. You really can't ask more of someone who is picked up front. In my long time of watching England play football, until Kane, no-one was as good as Lineker. Shearer and Owen shone for a short time, Rooney woeful on the big stage, Keegan never even got to be on the biggest stage save a few minutes at the end of a Spain game.

After Euro 88 (when England had the group from hell...it had the two finalists in the tournament in it and the Irish were very lucky to beat England, England did not lose a competitive match until the final friendly with Uruguay in 1990 before the World Cup '90' and only lost the third place playoff against Italy...a basically irrelavnt match, England were a top ten team back then...

England's press billed us as tournament favourites in 88. They completely under estimated the Dutch and the USSR. As for the Irish team you need to understand they were far from lucky in beating England. Look at the team and you'll see it was full of level 1st division players. The issue was they were supposed English and Scottish rejects. The Irish midfield was Whelan, Sheedy and Houghton. Up front they had Aldridge. At centre back they had Paul McGrath who was better than any of his English counterparts. You may now see why the Irish beat England. Bobby Robson scapegoated Tony Adams after Van Basten destroyed him. We wasn't good enough and got caught out. Italia 90 was better. Mediocre in the group stages. Out played by Belgium and rode our luck against Cameroon in the belief it's be a 3 0 walk over. Against Germany we were the better team. our luck ran out sadly. England were a good top 6/8 team. no more than that.

In 1990 they played Holland (European champions at the time and played them off the park and should have won by 3 goals, Lineker especially guilty of missed chances and a goal at the end by Pearce disallowed..yep all the group matches were dire but against Belgium, a legit goal by John Barnes was ruled out..I think if you think the Irish were the better team in 1988 you have a different memory then me..They made two chances, one of which they scored from and the other Whelan hit the bar, England had half a dozen if not more chances...Terry Butcher had been injured in the lead to Euro 88 and the defensive line lacked the experience of the 1990 team...also recall Bryan Robson was ruled out after the group stages of '90' which made England not as robust in that critical area for those matches..A loss that they could not recover from no matter how well David Platt played in his place..

1988 Barnes/Beardsley totally exhausted after brilliant domestic season. Lineker was ill with what turned out to be Hepatitis. Ireland match was a grind, Holland could have been 1-1 two late goals made it look worse than it was. Game against USSR lot of changes. That was the day Sir Bobby Robson said 'that team died that day". Dead wood cast away, Platt and Gascoigne waiting in the wings. We weren't that bad.

And in a time where co-commentators didn't ramble on for 90 minutes, polluting the sound of the game. They were economical with their words and sounded good. Not like todays bores.

Easily the best squad for me since 1970...

Maybe Euro 96 was equally as good?

do you know him?

@@kailashpatel1706 Peaky Blinders probably doesn't like that Lineker stands up for the minorities and is slightly left wing.

What country was it on tv? It wasn’t wasn’t broadcast live in England, only highlights at 1040 that night

It should have been but the mandatory sending off order for refs came later.

Almost any match could go in either direction. However, the red card should have been given to the Polish goalkeeper.

@@kodiakandgrizzlybears3787 it could...but if we r talking about red cards and GKs...1982 W Germany vs France.

@@detomasopantera1966 There have been many matches when red cards should have been given. Germany vs France is just ONE example amongst 1000+ matches.

@@kodiakandgrizzlybears3787 absolutely but that play...omg. How in the world...today would be a straight red and probably multiple game suspension 👌

@@detomasopantera1966 Football games used to be barbaric. Yes, such matches would be game suspension. Divers such as Neymar etc. etc. should be punished as well. Activity should be banned for three years at least.

Linek zwany Katem Polski

+reyjusuf Yes if you take out waddle and webb

reyjusuf And Gazza on the bench!

Take out Barnes??? Are you blind? He set up Lineker's goal and scored one himself too. Watch this video again. He didn't put a foot wrong

Barnes was an excellent player. Had he played the full game against Argentina, instead of the last twenty minutes or so, England would have reached the semis. He was floating past the Argentines and crossing when he came on. Another thing to look at - the aesthetics....players looked smart with all wearing black boots and jerseys worn inside the trousers, mostly. Compare that to today's footballers - tattoos, strange hairstyles, white, yellow, pink, red shoes, jerseys hanging out, etc.....and now you'll understand why I love the game in the old days so much more.

Chris Waddle was a great player,even better when he went to Marseille

evertonnut1 Ne should have been sent off then

Since England went out to Iceland in the Euros and I have thought so much about England in the 1980s and god they had some good teams!!!...the '82' team did not lose a match in 90 mins, battered France won all their group matches and drew against Spain and West Germany (Samson, Wilkins, Robson, Francis Mariner), Q/F and Semi in 86 and 90 and players like Barnes, Robson, Waddle, Beardsley and Gascoigne), tell me where are the players now???

It also helps that Poland couldn't finish their chances and they were very good. Gk should have gotten a red tho.

I disagree completely. That Northern European style of play worked in this era but won’t now. In many ways International football is a different sport. Much more cautious and oriented around ball possessions to attack and defend WITH the ball. Plus it’s hard to use an uptempo style after a gruelling season in hot summer tournaments. We need to evolve our style much like Germany have. We’re not Spain and never will be. But that’s not the plan. But we need to control games with possession better. Hopefully Mount and Fidel will help facilitate this. The thing we forget is the kids today didn’t grow up watching Robson and Ball play (I.e off the ball runners), even Gerard or Lampard. They grow up watching an iteration of Pep football. I’m very excited by the midfielders we’re producing now. We still have Alli, Bellingham etc. But now there’s guys like Smith-Rowe, Eze, Foden, Curtis Jones. Different players to the Gerard, Lampard, Hargreaves, Barry, Parker generation.

This has not aged well

+larwa85 zgadzam się z Tobą kolego , na tamte czasu nasze reprezentacja w ogóle nie istniała w tym meczu pozdrawiam .....

ale parę sytuacji mieli

no mieli, ale myślę o całokształcie "-)

@@larwa85 lazarek byl trenerem. Czasy porazek bez konca...

Dobrze, że Robson nie wziął Gascoigne bo było by jeszcze gorzej

Yeah. Standard!

This might change. I'll bank on 'hard Brexit'!!