I was at the Northern Ireland v England game at Windsor park. I remember it was played in heavy rain and given the result I wish id stayed at home lol but was great to see Kevin Keegan playing. Northern Ireland actually had a decent team from 1979-1986 and we ended up finishing second behind England in this group.
For me England was a good team with many great players : Keegan, Clemence,Neal, Kennedy,Hoddle,Brooking and others. In Italy a no good Euro, but a good World Cup in 1982 ( some great games and no losers). From Italy
in Italy a no good Euro ....Nicola ha visto bene la partita con il Belgio? Hai forse perso il gol REGOLARISSIMO di TONY WOODCOCK annullato in modo INFAME ! In quel momento England ha perso EURO 80 ...FULL STOP!
Brooking and Keegan were the main men for England in this era. If they'd both been fit for the 1982 World Cup I think England might have come close to winning it.
15:15 Bulgaria wasn’t that shut behind the Iron Curtain as some might have thought. Pink Floyd was on the radio, Fawlty Towers on the telly, I watched Forest winning the European Cup, Keegan’s autobiography: ‘Football and I’, was serialised in one of our weekly magazines. Then they came to Sofia. We were looking up to England, they were everything that was right, the whole better world! And now, how times have changed
England were pretty rubbish at the beginning of this campaign with bad defending and seemingly only being able to score from set pieces, but improved a lot from the half way point and towards the end and became a lot more of a team. This side peaked in early 1980 when they didn't just beat but took apart Spain in the Nou Camp 2-0. Then Trevor Francis got injured and was out of Euro 80. Plus the manager didn't pick Laurie Cunningham or Glenn Hoddle. Oh well. Great memories though. Oh, one other thing - was it really that hard to find a way to get Terry McDermott in the team regularly? The thought of him playing in that Euro 80 match against Italy the way did for Liverpool at that time, I'd have loved to have seen that (I say, 42 years later lol).
Yep Tony Woodcock scored a goal against Belguim in Euro 80 that was ruled wrongly for offside, if it had stood England would have been finalists that year...the injury to Francis was a killer since him and Woodcock formed a deadly duo up front at the time..
Another point, Hoddle was in the squad but was not brought on as sub in the critical tight match against Italy (Ron Atkinson was urging this) and Bryan Robson was excluded from the squad altogether..
The point about McDermott is well taken..He should have been used against Spain in 1982 on the right of the midfield..with Francis played on top,he never played any minute of the tourney..
if you find it, PLEASE reply to this comment by letting me now where you got it from, even thought the 1982 kit, you can get online, all the best in your search......
I think if Bryan Robson had stayed fit, England might have won in Italia 90. Truly an inspiring, goal scoring talent at that level, who was just as effective as Platini,Matheus etc, while maybe not as pleasing to the eye.
People always says it was such a shame Best never played in a finals. You could say the same thing about Brady. Tragic. 10 years later, he gets sent off in the final game for Ireland vs Bulgaria, and misses Euro 88...
To win at football, you need a great player in your side - and that is something that England have lacked for the last 50 years. France - a similar country to England in terms of population - has won many trophies in recent years, but each time they've won, it was with a great player: European Championship 1984 (Michel Platini), World Cup 1998 (Zinadine Zidane), World Cup 2018 (Kylian Mbappe).
@@donbrogan3158 some of those players that you mentioned were excellent - but never dominated tournaments the same way as Platini, Zidane and Mbappe. Barnes, Scholes and Hoddle rarely performed at the same level for their country as they did for their club. There is a big difference in having a really good player, and a great one. Paul Gascoigne was the closest - but, sadly, pressed the self-destruct button.
Rooney an Gazza had good tournament Rooney sadly injured after being on fire in 04 . England played safe an within themselves but were also unlucky with goals disallowed v Portugal Argentina and Germany at crucial times.
I disagree, Kevin was a decent player but we had better players, that were more skillful, like Hoddle, Kevin was a goalscorer, and bloody good at it.....
@@pisceansith6915 The Euro 80 match against Italy, Greenwood should have pushed Keegan up and subbed Hoddle on to try to win the match by getting him to get balls through to Keegan..It was Keegan working too hard in midfield that allowed Tardelli to break up pitch for the winner..
Podrías hacer la fase final de la euro 80 igual que estás haciendo del mundial 82, o sea los partidos , por ejemplo de Inglaterra , los que jugó en esa fase final Bélgica , Italia y España Un saludo y muchas gracias por el gran trabajo que realizas en ambos canales
Tbf that was a fairly easy group to get out of. Although the Danes finished bottom,you could see even then they had the basis of a good team,and so it proved a few years later.
Denmark always had a good team but the problem was that the national team was treated as a summercamp by the players until we got a german trainer Sepp Piontek.
I can still remember a little Indian lad new to are school turning up in the long sleeve version back in 74 or 75 the Admiral label 3 Lions the lot we became Instant mates . The follow up strip wasn't bad either though I can't ever recall that being worn by even the players with long sleeves lol .
Keegan for some reason is extremely underrated by English fans. They either say "he was not Dalglish" or put him down in some way that imply he was not a natural talent, just hard work. I really don't get it, he was by far the best English player in the 70s, and one of the best in Europe in late 70s.
Don’t understand why we have to suffer foreign commentary haven’t got an effing clue what they say. This is about England; and I want Motty or Brian Moore (the voice of football).
Simonsen went in to be a legend at Charlton Athletic,English hooligans disgraced the nation at the Euros but six years later the Danes had a great team (and Hummel kit) at Mexico 86.
Coppell could seriously cross a ball. If only Greenwood could have incorporated a midfield / attack where Robson, Hoddle, Coppell, Keegan and Francis all featured we surely could have done something
Ireland were a great team at landsdowne Road not many teams won there and that includes England France Holland and Portugal in massive games not friendlies
End of the lost decade for England. Never developed the national team tactically and so far behind other nations at this time. Really have to blame the FA. Talent was there as evidenced by the club successes but tactical naivety and poor selection policy hampered progress. I really think Clough or Robson could have done something special with the talent available. Much better tactically than Revie and Greenwood. Happier innocent days. Great perms.......
Greenwood's appointment was a waste with players like Regis/Statham/Cowans/Morley/Devonshire/Anderson/Alvin Martin...Clough would also have used existing players better like Paul Mariner/Terry Mcdermott/Ray Kennedy far better..
Take the key game against Spain in 1982 WC, why did Greenwood play Trevor Francis on the right of midfield?, no Hoddle and only brought on Keegan and Brooking late...?....Play Terry McDermott on the right of midfield (Rix on the left), Brooking behind an attacking duo of Keegan with Francis pushed up...?...Come HT not working replace Brooking with Hoddle and say Keegan with Mariner and get Mariner to play deeper and wider of Francis so the defence could be pulled apart..Jack Charlton not even Clough would have seemed the case for that..
Yeah you're right I used to watch him when he come to spurs and I thought he was great but watching him now he's shit in every old England game I watch
And a special thank you for keeping the original audio (even though it wasn't great in place, but it is what it is) rather than the usual cheesy music - well done!
I agree Shilts should have not been between the sticks in WC 90', he was shite and we had better goalkeepers on the bench, that would have stopped the Germans given the chance.......
