I was at Wembley for the final England vs Hungary game with my Dad. I remember Mariner scoring at the other end (I could not see much). The best bit was the celebrations at the end. England had qualified for the World Cup Finals. It was the first time I remember England in the World Cup Finals since I was only 7 months old in 1966 and I cannot remember the 1970 World Cup.
You were lucky to be there, I was in America when this happened, and after the horror of watching England failing to qualify for Germany cos of Jan Tomaszewski I never followed the 78 qualifiers, cos I had left London to live in America, I was 4 months old in 66, and didn't remember 1970 either.....
I was 11 in 1970...and will never forget Gordon Banks making an incredible saving against the head strike of Pele...even though at the end England lost this game i will always remember this incredibly save ....👍👍👍👍
Absolute miracle England qualified..Some freak results in the group..Switzerland winning away in Romania meant England needed a draw in last game to qualify
same thing in 1985 ... Romania - Northern Ireland 0-1 ! that makes England and Northern Ireland to make a peaceful 0-0 in the last their match, to qualify both at world cup 1986 ,but first was our fault! that 0-1 home with N.Ireland was incredible unexpected! we were better than them but the result was unfair , a match dominated by Romania , N.Ireland all time in defense,they escape one time on counter-attack , they scored in min. 85 ... and that's it! their goalie made the match of his life saving many chances of Romania , he denied all the attempts to score for us! here is the match ua-cam.com/video/TVyPXGG5O6o/v-deo.html
@@dand7763 Wasn't that peaceful Kerry Dixon after an embarrassing muck up in the box ,met a Cross with his head heading for the top corner - when Jennings made yet another save of his career.
I remember that Brooking goal v Hungary when the ball got stuck in the goalpost stanchion......God I'm old.... England were pretty crap with some well dodgy results but qualified.....How the heck did Mariner and Osman make the squad....Obviously Ipswich at the time but.......
Yes, particularly galling for the Republic of Ireland and Wales who both missed out on goal difference in much tougher qualifying groups. Both would almost certainly have qualified had they been in the group England had.
Blame the Refs and the guidelines of UEFA/FIFA. If they wouldn’t call a foul at that diving situations anymore, the players wouldn’t do it. A foul is a foul not a contact
You are right! Absolutely! I'm italian and the english foot 1965-1985 was the best. What an atmosphere in the stadiums. I often watch your old matches. WONDERFUL!
This is a fantastic video compilation! I remember some of these games well. It's funny - looking at that in 2024, three days after Gareth Southgate handed in his resignation and you think to yourself (or at least I do), if social media had existed back then, how much flak would Greenwood and the players have taken? I mean, based on these highlights (and the memories of my dad moaning and shouting at the telly), we were a side of talented players with no real consistent plan (and definitely not one in defence). Matched by the Romanians? Beaten by some Norwegian milkmen? Wow. And isn't it funny how delighted John Motson sounds at the end of our 'huff-and-puff' victory against Hungary at the end? Just for qualifying? How spoiled we've become, making finals, semis... I'm not saying it reinvents some of the more defensive tactics of recent years, but perhaps it shows that we haven't really changed to any sustained degree.
At half of qualifications, England was 90% eliminated, somehow Romania made some gifts, like losing at home to Suisse with 1-2, and that's how England made it to the World Cup.
Main player and star Marcel Raducanu left Romania for political reasons and that affects a lot Romania´s performance during the most part of the qualifying. Losing to an inferior team like Switzerland at home nearly killed all chances of making it to the world cup. The saddest failure in the history of Romanian Football.
@@felrobertoHahah.... au fost mai multe ,mult mai multe , vezi calificarea pierdută pt. C.M Mexic 1986 împotriva Irlandei de N. , Barajul contra Sloveniei pentru mondialul din 2002 .... plus multe calificări la Euro pierdute în ultimul meci din calificări: Euro 88 , 92 , 2004
@@andrula in 1986, Shilton was out-jumped by a midget for the 'hand of God' goal, four years later, at well over the age of 40, he was still in the England goal! Way too old. Bobby Robson should have replaced him with Chris Woods.
@@andrula no room for sentiment in sport. Bobby Robson was too loyal. Alf Ramsey did the same - still picking Bobby Moore well past his best in 1973. That's the refreshing thing about Gareth Southgate - he picks the young players in form.
After the brilliant victory of Romania 2-1 against England in September 1980 the Romanian team came into crisis and its main player Marcel Raducanu resigned affecting its performance in the next qualilyng matches. I don't know whether England had qualified to the World Cup competing against Romania having Raducanu
Wonder what this England side would have achieved had Brian Clough been manager instead of the already retired Ron Greenwood ? The FA made a safe but incorrect choice.
He would have played a very different team to Greenwood, would have rebuilt the backline, liked to use pace and counter attacking football brought in men like Cowans, Statham, Hoddle, Regis/Morley, Devonshire etc..He might have gone with this team; Shilton/Anderson/Butcher/Alvin Martin/Statham...Cowans/Robson/Hoddle...Woodcock/Regis/Francis..he would have got the better out of players like Mariner or Ray Kennedy who were misused by Greenwood..
Delving into the records, I notice Keegan missed about half of this campaign through injury. Brooking was sidelined for a while. These were England's most creative, incisive & clinical players with a good understanding, the former one of the indisputably world class members of the squad. Also: Gates (briefly), Mills, Mariner, Butcher of Ipswich Town were Eng players up to 1982. Won't happen for a so-called "provincial" side any more in this £-talks Premier League era.
Yes Brooking missed all three of England's defeats in the qualifiers. He and Keegan had an excellent understanding and it's one of those "what ifs" what would have happened if they'd been fit enough to play the whole of the 1982 finals rather than just half an hour in the last game.
Never forget Brooking's goal with the ball getting stuck in the goal stancion.The first World Cup for 12 years and the first we qualified for in 20 years. And of course in the hey-day of Pannini stickers.
@Capri Brazil, England,West Germany and France was stronger than Italy,but the germans arrived too tired at final,because of the long marathon shoot out penalties against France
I never liked Shilton , in part cos of his Dickhead dive over the ball in the big one vs the Poles , we had a great squad for 74 - oh well - memories . ERM could Wilkins EVER keep the ball down ! .
@@andrewcorlett4795 We belonged in the 1978 World Cup Finals - was desperately unlikely for England not qualifying. The 1974 Qualification Group was stupid - only three Nations in it..
We in Wales were taking the pee out of England early in the early stages of the qualifying campaign as we were heading for Spain and England were struggling.
Just a shame Wales had a beast of a qualifying group with the USSR and Czechoslovakia. Wales would have comfortably qualified against Hungary, Romania, Switzerland and Norway.
@@paulwilliams8389 I was at the race course for ussr, ninian park for the cz game and the vetch when the floodlights failed v iceland I was 16. It was about £2.50 entry and you could turn up on spec. Happy days!
Andreas, the famous Moment to some still hurts even now, it was a great moment and one of the reasons certain owners of the European Super League will never understand Football, that's why fans said No to it.
40 years ago I"d left England and was totally disinterested. Watching this, I'm shrieking at the screen with every awful miss and every awful score against "us" . Must be the second childhood coming on . ( and I did shriek for joy in"66..... that was childish. )
THd 2 draws in the finals against Spain and Germany got FIFA to finally change to remove second group stages in 1982. I remember my grandfather and father unable to understand how ENgland could not score in those 2 games. Well, now we see why!
This is why I couldn't stand Brian Moore's commentary: "Well it's worth seeing again because it's one they wanted so badly" (talking about the action replay of Terry McDermott's goal against Norway (the first match)). No, Brian, it's worth watching again because it was a superb goal - nothing to do with how much the England team wanted it.
Maggie Thatcher , Clement Attlee , lord Beaverbrook , Winston Churchill etc. your boys took one hell of a beating the Norwegian commentator in Oslo was the best thing about the qualification......or Trevor Brookings goal in Hungary remember the ball getting stuck in the stanchion......(if that's how you spell it).......
It's Aas, really. In 1981 he became the first Norwegian to play in the English 1st division, joining Nottingham Forest. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einar_Jan_Aas
Lord Nelson,Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher etc your boys took a helluva beating...great mr Norwegian commentator but how many famous Norwegians are there?!
@@alanprior7650 Famous Norwegian like Edvard Munch, Henrik Ibsen, Kygo, a-ha, Edvard Grieg, Jo Nesbø, Erling Braut Håland, Karsten Warholm, Magnus Carlsen, Alan Walker and more.....
Been watching since 1990. The 1998 team is the best team England had, all the problems started with a sloppy loss to Romania in the group stage which put England on a very difficult path in the second round. Still managed a 2-2 draw with Argentina with 10 men and a legit goal cancelled, remember Argentina was an excellent team, they lost to the amazing Dutch team in the quarterfinals mostly because they were extremely exhausted from the England game and the Holland game was just two days after that, Argentina did not even train before the game, still it took a coin toss finale for the Dutch to pull a winner at the 90th minute. Now thinking about it, 1998 was probably the strongest World Cup.
Completely agree.Had both the Home White and Away Red Admiral England shirts from the 1980-1984 period.Admiral did a good job with the England shirts from the 70s and early 80s.Southgate’s getting criticised like crazy,but this was our first World Cup since 1970,and we had so many top players playing for England then,a bit like now,yet we failed to get to the 74 and 78 World Cups.I remember what a struggle it was to qualify for the 82 World Cup in Spain,and that Hungary game at Wembley was a huge deal.Keep this archive footage coming.👍
I'm getting old but that's good. I appreciate 🙏 this. All the famous names from the past...raducanu, Roger albertsen, Paul mariner, Tony woodcock... 😊😊😊
That was considered an easy group to qualify from but in truth it was a really even group. There was a 4-nil victory over the Norwegians that gave a false impression early in the group. After that it was a real struggle. Any of the sides could have qualified.
Once again, I can't believe how many changes between each match... injuries? If not, just like Revie and Ramsay before him, Greenwood criminally made too many changes.
@@mattmid7012 Greenwood rotated Shilton and Clemence for a couple of years, but it became apparent Shilton was the more reliable option so he was the number one by the time the 82 World Cup came round.
Henry Root letters...to Brian Clough.... "you need to buy a big lad, who can grace the European stage. here is 1 £ to help you sign Sulser" "I noticed the wee man, Archie Gemmill, blow his nose on the pitch. This is not the Notts Forest way" Clough: "Thank you Mr Root, i have added the 1£ to the Sulser fund, although if someone like Keegan becomes availiable, I hope you understand I will spend it on him"
Really good.ive gad bought panni sticker book 1978 -1985 it's a league one, but there is also a euro 1978 1985 one as well.does anyone remember a game they played ad qualifier on a snowy pitch??
If England would have kept the same team of 1982 with some additional players of 1986 .. England would have won the 1986 world Cup... This is the biggest mistake England does with their team and players.. Even today England does the same foolish thing and end up getting eliminated from competition either with penalty or late goals
England line up for actual world cup match versus France in Bilbao 1982. Note the lack of admiral badge on the shirts, also squad numbers visible on the sgorts
England had some good players back then but I think their play was a bit too predictable. They relied heavily on having a big center forward to knock balls down. Too bad Keegan was injured going into the WC.
We Norwegians still remember that 2-1 win on hometurf over England on 1981. Since then we have beaten you more than once particularly in the 1990s. You could do with a Robson, Keegan and Mariner today, full speed ahead, no passing back and forth, being more interesting in not conceding goals than making them, in front of a wall of defenders, coming nowhere. Modern football.
удивительная сборная, по составу чуть ли не сильнейшая в мире, английские клубы в то время не имели себе равных в еврокубках, однако как дело доходило до главных турниров, англичане вдруг становились не похожими сами на себя
Although I haven't seen the other results it did look like a very inconsistent group and England can be very thankful for that. 3 away defeats and a home draw wouldn't normally be good enough.
Thoae having a go at Southgate need to realise what a struggle England had just to qualify for decades. Full marks to Ron Greenwood for salvaging a bit of pride. Great man. Ditto Keegan and Brooking.
You can’t compare the pish easy qualifying campaigns of now to back then. Far few places up for grabs and you didn’t have all these minnow countries caused by the break up of countries like Yugoslavia
@@jameshunter7303 Exactly. You'd be very hard pushed not to qualify these days! Another point as well was that a lot of Eastern European teams had half their squads all playing for one league team and had that understanding. Yugoslavia would have been a real powerhouse had it not broken up. Good luck getting in their midfield in the late 90's had it not done so!
Shilton still in the team in wlWC 1990, is crazy. was in team since 74, i believe. No wonder in pen shootout in 90, he was so slow, lol was old as hell.
Yep I agree, I loved Mariner as a deep lying forward with some great weapons , I think the finishing was not so good but this is where Francis should have been played on top with Mariner sitting wider and deeper..Jack Charlton was urging Howe/Greenwood to do this.
I was at Wembley for the final England vs Hungary game with my Dad. I remember Mariner scoring at the other end (I could not see much). The best bit was the celebrations at the end. England had qualified for the World Cup Finals. It was the first time I remember England in the World Cup Finals since I was only 7 months old in 1966 and I cannot remember the 1970 World Cup.
You were lucky to be there, I was in America when this happened, and after the horror of watching England failing to qualify for Germany cos of Jan Tomaszewski I never followed the 78 qualifiers, cos I had left London to live in America, I was 4 months old in 66, and didn't remember 1970 either.....
Did you collect the sticker album ESPANIA 82 🚜🚜🚜🚜
I was 11 in 1970...and will never forget Gordon Banks making an incredible saving against the head strike of Pele...even though at the end England lost this game i will always remember this incredibly save ....👍👍👍👍
@@nickmullerITFC78Panini !
England were shockingly fragile during this era.
Maybe had lost confidence having failed to qualify for the two previous tournaments?
Southgate criticise for getting England to 2 euro finals
Absolute miracle England qualified..Some freak results in the group..Switzerland winning away in Romania meant England needed a draw in last game to qualify
same thing in 1985 ... Romania - Northern Ireland 0-1 ! that makes England and Northern Ireland to make a peaceful 0-0 in the last their match, to qualify both at world cup 1986 ,but first was our fault! that 0-1 home with N.Ireland was incredible unexpected! we were better than them but the result was unfair , a match dominated by Romania , N.Ireland all time in defense,they escape one time on counter-attack , they scored in min. 85 ... and that's it! their goalie made the match of his life saving many chances of Romania , he denied all the attempts to score for us!
here is the match ua-cam.com/video/TVyPXGG5O6o/v-deo.html
@@dand7763 Wasn't that peaceful Kerry Dixon after an embarrassing muck up in the box ,met a Cross with his head heading for the top corner - when Jennings made yet another save of his career.
Draw in Hungary, not Romania
Yes, Romania were expected to do the double over a poor Switzerland side - had they done so then they would have qualified instead of England.
I remember that Brooking goal v Hungary when the ball got stuck in the goalpost stanchion......God I'm old....
England were pretty crap with some well dodgy results but qualified.....How the heck did Mariner and Osman make the squad....Obviously Ipswich at the time but.......
Terry Mc Dermott was absolutely a great striker with his long shoots as he mades in Liverpool too
England fortunate to qualify but did put up a decent display at Spain 82'....shame Brooking & Keegan were injured for most of the finals.
Keegan came back in and missed a sitter.
Didnt we beat France 3-1 in the 82 world cup I remember Robson played a blinder and scored a header.
Went out undeated with that stupid second group phase, which was ditched after 82 world cup
@@stephenreeds3632yep I remember it clearly I was nine at the time and header he missed
@@stephenreeds3632
One of the most fortuitous qualifications you will ever see...
Yes, particularly galling for the Republic of Ireland and Wales who both missed out on goal difference in much tougher qualifying groups. Both would almost certainly have qualified had they been in the group England had.
@@paulwilliams8389 ha ha A Good year then ref to wales and Ireland,, Yeah of course they would have Yawn
Old wembley stadium still the best, world cup qualified, friendly games, FA cup final. Those are the day playing with tight jerseys and short.
Nothing like it on FA cup final day watching the players walk across the track and the band marching. The stadium just had a lot of history.
The old Wembley was a shit hole
In those days You didn't see Players looking for a Free Kick or Penalty at every Tackle made. Un like these days.
Blame the Refs and the guidelines of UEFA/FIFA. If they wouldn’t call a foul at that diving situations anymore, the players wouldn’t do it. A foul is a foul not a contact
@@flusenbart if players like klinsmann didn't dive every time they sniffed the ball the rules would never of changed.
@@Jaygraterthanyou Yes Klinsmann had some drama in his play style. But you can name a lot of players at that time. Inzaghi was way better ;-)
You are right! Absolutely! I'm italian and the english foot 1965-1985 was the best. What an atmosphere in the stadiums. I often watch your old matches. WONDERFUL!
@@flusenbart Inzaghi was the ultimate diver!
I remember that Brooking goal live on ITV, ball getting caught in the top corner of the goal, fk me, 40yrs ago when I was a lad.
This is a fantastic video compilation! I remember some of these games well. It's funny - looking at that in 2024, three days after Gareth Southgate handed in his resignation and you think to yourself (or at least I do), if social media had existed back then, how much flak would Greenwood and the players have taken? I mean, based on these highlights (and the memories of my dad moaning and shouting at the telly), we were a side of talented players with no real consistent plan (and definitely not one in defence). Matched by the Romanians? Beaten by some Norwegian milkmen? Wow. And isn't it funny how delighted John Motson sounds at the end of our 'huff-and-puff' victory against Hungary at the end? Just for qualifying? How spoiled we've become, making finals, semis... I'm not saying it reinvents some of the more defensive tactics of recent years, but perhaps it shows that we haven't really changed to any sustained degree.
At half of qualifications, England was 90% eliminated, somehow Romania made some gifts, like losing at home to Suisse with 1-2, and that's how England made it to the World Cup.
Yep and that would have been three non-qualifications in a row !
Main player and star Marcel Raducanu left Romania for political reasons and that affects a lot Romania´s performance during the most part of the qualifying. Losing to an inferior team like Switzerland at home nearly killed all chances of making it to the world cup. The saddest failure in the history of Romanian Football.
The Norway no 4 was Ass
@@felrobertoHahah.... au fost mai multe ,mult mai multe , vezi calificarea pierdută pt. C.M Mexic 1986 împotriva Irlandei de N. , Barajul contra Sloveniei pentru mondialul din 2002 .... plus multe calificări la Euro pierdute în ultimul meci din calificări: Euro 88 , 92 , 2004
Pointless saying we were lucky ..Romania should have won .they didn't..
8:17 Shilton trying out his 1990 World Cup Semi Final technique there!
At least he saved it here .....just....
In 1990 he took another 3 minutes to realise it was looping over him! Still upset by it...obvs!
@@andrula in 1986, Shilton was out-jumped by a midget for the 'hand of God' goal, four years later, at well over the age of 40, he was still in the England goal! Way too old. Bobby Robson should have replaced him with Chris Woods.
@@johnt7630 completely agree John! Also, if you remember, he came nowhere near saving any of those penalties in ‘90.
@@andrula no room for sentiment in sport. Bobby Robson was too loyal. Alf Ramsey did the same - still picking Bobby Moore well past his best in 1973. That's the refreshing thing about Gareth Southgate - he picks the young players in form.
After the brilliant victory of Romania 2-1 against England in September 1980 the Romanian team came into crisis and its main player Marcel Raducanu resigned affecting its performance in the next qualilyng matches. I don't know whether England had qualified to the World Cup competing against Romania having Raducanu
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Wonder what this England side would have achieved had Brian Clough been manager instead of the already retired Ron Greenwood ? The FA made a safe but incorrect choice.
Clough wouldn't have been able to handle the pressure, his alcoholism would have got worse and he would have become a liability.
He would have played a very different team to Greenwood, would have rebuilt the backline, liked to use pace and counter attacking football brought in men like Cowans, Statham, Hoddle, Regis/Morley, Devonshire etc..He might have gone with this team; Shilton/Anderson/Butcher/Alvin Martin/Statham...Cowans/Robson/Hoddle...Woodcock/Regis/Francis..he would have got the better out of players like Mariner or Ray Kennedy who were misused by Greenwood..
@@kailashpatel1706 I'd have liked to have seen that team. He'd have arranged for John Robertson to get an English passport too. 😁
Gosh how the game has changed. What child of those times would not want to go back to 1980/1 knowing what they know now?
Honestly, 70's England was way better than this!
And yet failed to qualify for 2 World Cups...
Delving into the records, I notice Keegan missed about half of this campaign through injury. Brooking was sidelined for a while. These were England's most creative, incisive & clinical players with a good understanding, the former one of the indisputably world class members of the squad. Also: Gates (briefly), Mills, Mariner, Butcher of Ipswich Town were Eng players up to 1982. Won't happen for a so-called "provincial" side any more in this £-talks Premier League era.
Yes Brooking missed all three of England's defeats in the qualifiers. He and Keegan had an excellent understanding and it's one of those "what ifs" what would have happened if they'd been fit enough to play the whole of the 1982 finals rather than just half an hour in the last game.
0:47 the ref is 36! Life must have been hard in Belgium in the 70's. Either that or he delivered to every house in Brussels on his paper round
Never forget Brooking's goal with the ball getting stuck in the goal stancion.The first World Cup for 12 years and the first we qualified for in 20 years. And of course in the hey-day of Pannini stickers.
We were pretty ropey weren't we?
Keegan and Robson were dissapointing.
Terrible.
England should have merited world Cup with that squad!
If Clough and Taylor had managed them who knows.......
@@leeherring8880 Yes,but if Keegan scored two easy goals against Spain, England joined half finals!
@Capri Brazil, England,West Germany and France was stronger than Italy,but the germans arrived too tired at final,because of the long marathon shoot out penalties against France
Mariner a bit sloppy with his chances.
Очень жаль, что на том первенстве были травмированы Кевин Киган и Брукинг.
don't think this was a good England team, sure was a struggle
MICK MILLS CAPTAIN IPSWICH AND ENGLAND 🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜COYBS
Mick Mills the English player us Scots just loved to hate !
@@09weenic who is Scottish not me 🚜🚜🚜💙💙💙
Ray Clemence was utterly shite during these games.
And Shilts blaming his boots v Romania🤣
Ya not wrong there mate , completely un Utterly lol .
I never liked Shilton , in part cos of his Dickhead dive over the ball in the big one vs the Poles , we had a great squad for 74 - oh well - memories . ERM could Wilkins EVER keep the ball down ! .
@@andrewcorlett4795 We belonged in the 1978 World Cup Finals - was desperately unlikely for England not qualifying. The 1974 Qualification Group was stupid - only three Nations in it..
@@thelstanedwardsson4374 your last sentence is totally baffling 😃
All Englishmen :)
How can you not include the famous Bjørge Lillelien moment? You know, "Your boys took a hell of a beating” ?
"Maggie Thatcher can you hear me ?"
I was always puzzled by the fact that he mentioned 'Sir Anthony Eden.'
@@CIMAmotor and Clement Attley 😂
Lord Beaverbrook.
@@CIMAmotor why didn't he mention Cardinal Wolsey?
We in Wales were taking the pee out of England early in the early stages of the qualifying campaign as we were heading for Spain and England were struggling.
Just a shame Wales had a beast of a qualifying group with the USSR and Czechoslovakia. Wales would have comfortably qualified against Hungary, Romania, Switzerland and Norway.
@@paulwilliams8389 I was at the race course for ussr, ninian park for the cz game and the vetch when the floodlights failed v iceland I was 16.
It was about £2.50 entry and you could turn up on spec. Happy days!
You lost it because of a 2-2 draw with Iceland.
and the 84 qualifiers. 8 mins from being there. At home, a Southall disaster blew it.
Andreas, the famous Moment to some still hurts even now, it was a great moment and one of the reasons certain owners of the European Super League will never understand Football, that's why fans said No to it.
The standard of play on show throughout that video was pretty poor, especially much of the England defending.
Still better to watch than todays shite .
Hmmmm...
First match between England and Norway ..
Check the lineups ..
Norwegian player number 4 .. his name is ASS ..
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ASS ????
40 years ago I"d left England and was totally disinterested. Watching this, I'm shrieking at the screen with every awful miss and every awful score against "us" . Must be the second childhood coming on . ( and I did shriek for joy in"66..... that was childish. )
0:33 Oops 🤦🏼♂️ The correct spelling of the name of Norway's number 4 was Aas 😂😂😂
THd 2 draws in the finals against Spain and Germany got FIFA to finally change to remove second group stages in 1982. I remember my grandfather and father unable to understand how ENgland could not score in those 2 games. Well, now we see why!
Absolute miracle England qualified after the Norway defeat..
This is why I couldn't stand Brian Moore's commentary: "Well it's worth seeing again because it's one they wanted so badly" (talking about the action replay of Terry McDermott's goal against Norway (the first match)). No, Brian, it's worth watching again because it was a superb goal - nothing to do with how much the England team wanted it.
Maggie Thatcher , Clement Attlee , lord Beaverbrook , Winston Churchill etc. your boys took one hell of a beating the Norwegian commentator in Oslo was the best thing about the qualification......or Trevor Brookings goal in Hungary remember the ball getting stuck in the stanchion......(if that's how you spell it).......
...Anthony Eden...
....Lady Diana....
Staunchion
Seems England were caught badly on the counter attack from sloppy mistakes against semi professional teams throughout qualification.
I totally want a #4 Norway shirt. What a name!!! ASS!!
It's Aas, really. In 1981 he became the first Norwegian to play in the English 1st division, joining Nottingham Forest. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einar_Jan_Aas
Greenwood picked the wrong squad, wish Clough had been in charge because England would have won the tournament
Esta 🏴 tuvo 2 caras, la eliminatoria y el mundial, muy diferentes.
great players england had
Wonderfull victory for Norway, with 2-1 win over the great England ❤🇧🇻❤
@Aleksander Finstad yeah against a strong England side too with Kevin Keegan, Hoddle, Bryan Robson, Trevor Francis etc.
Yeah , doesn't really mean much as they didn't qualify .
You guys took one hell of a beating search out the Norwegian commentary......
Lord Nelson,Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher etc your boys took a helluva beating...great mr Norwegian commentator but how many famous Norwegians are there?!
@@alanprior7650 Famous Norwegian like Edvard Munch, Henrik Ibsen, Kygo, a-ha, Edvard Grieg, Jo Nesbø, Erling Braut Håland, Karsten Warholm, Magnus Carlsen, Alan Walker and more.....
It was coming home then as well 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
England actually played to win, no side to side back to the keeper stuff we see today.
Terry Mcdermott's goals and performance looked good.
The Norwegian commentary after the Norway away defeat would have been better
Been watching since 1990. The 1998 team is the best team England had, all the problems started with a sloppy loss to Romania in the group stage which put England on a very difficult path in the second round. Still managed a 2-2 draw with Argentina with 10 men and a legit goal cancelled, remember Argentina was an excellent team, they lost to the amazing Dutch team in the quarterfinals mostly because they were extremely exhausted from the England game and the Holland game was just two days after that, Argentina did not even train before the game, still it took a coin toss finale for the Dutch to pull a winner at the 90th minute.
Now thinking about it, 1998 was probably the strongest World Cup.
In 98 we had the best manager, in 2006 the best players, 1990 and 2018 the best blend of both
My all time favorite 🏴 Jersey
deserved to qualify but were rubbish in Spain
A Liverpool player should never England
it might have been kamikaze at times, but damn we were entertaining
Ray Clemance....shaky
For Liverpool he was rock solid....
Swiss with names on shirts, ahead of their time?
King's of the perms English footballers
All of these football archives are brilliant. 👏👏👏👏👏
Completely agree.Had both the Home White and Away Red Admiral England shirts from the 1980-1984 period.Admiral did a good job with the England shirts from the 70s and early 80s.Southgate’s getting criticised like crazy,but this was our first World Cup since 1970,and we had so many top players playing for England then,a bit like now,yet we failed to get to the 74 and 78 World Cups.I remember what a struggle it was to qualify for the 82 World Cup in Spain,and that Hungary game at Wembley was a huge deal.Keep this archive footage coming.👍
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I'm getting old but that's good. I appreciate 🙏 this. All the famous names from the past...raducanu, Roger albertsen, Paul mariner, Tony woodcock... 😊😊😊
17.18 Brooking top bins
Text, text, text, text the nation
Was moving the embrace between Mariner and an hungarian player,what a gentlemen!!
Mariner was a great player and great man. When he died, there was nothing bad to be said about him.
@@fatbelly27Absolutely agreed!!❤
Englands in ability to score is shown in these qualifiers
The defending at times was not great either
If movies from the 50s 60s 70s looks nice and ok’ why why footeges from early 80s are so shit.
Shot on video,plus vhs transfers.
That was considered an easy group to qualify from but in truth it was a really even group. There was a 4-nil victory over the Norwegians that gave a false impression early in the group. After that it was a real struggle. Any of the sides could have qualified.
classic team here,,,,whos who of great players...as an irishman i watched a lot of these players growing up....
I remember this…. “We’ll reign in Spain”…. Three (3) or four (4) of those players are sadly no more…
Once again, I can't believe how many changes between each match... injuries? If not, just like Revie and Ramsay before him, Greenwood criminally made too many changes.
I seem to remember he was always swapping keepers. I remember my dad at the time saying how bad Clemence was for England and I see why now.
@@mattmid7012 Greenwood rotated Shilton and Clemence for a couple of years, but it became apparent Shilton was the more reliable option so he was the number one by the time the 82 World Cup came round.
Henry Root letters...to Brian Clough....
"you need to buy a big lad, who can grace the European stage. here is 1 £ to help you sign Sulser"
"I noticed the wee man, Archie Gemmill, blow his nose on the pitch. This is not the Notts Forest way"
Clough: "Thank you Mr Root, i have added the 1£ to the Sulser fund, although if someone like Keegan becomes availiable, I hope you understand I will spend it on him"
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Really good.ive gad bought panni sticker book 1978 -1985 it's a league one, but there is also a euro 1978 1985 one as well.does anyone remember a game they played ad qualifier on a snowy pitch??
If England would have kept the same team of 1982 with some additional players of 1986 .. England would have won the 1986 world Cup... This is the biggest mistake England does with their team and players.. Even today England does the same foolish thing and end up getting eliminated from competition either with penalty or late goals
To final in spain
Some dodgy performances during qualification but we turned it round when we played in the finals over in Spain. Great video!
England line up for actual world cup match versus France in Bilbao 1982. Note the lack of admiral badge on the shirts, also squad numbers visible on the sgorts
Props to the first match commentator for resisting the urge to call the Norwegian number 4 ASS
Ray Clemence is a bad keeper
Clemence was very irregular, in the World Cup in Spain he was only a substitute.
England had some good players back then but I think their play was a bit too predictable. They relied heavily on having a big center forward to knock balls down. Too bad Keegan was injured going into the WC.
We Norwegians still remember that 2-1 win on hometurf over England on 1981. Since then we have beaten you more than once particularly in the 1990s. You could do with a Robson, Keegan and Mariner today, full speed ahead, no passing back and forth, being more interesting in not conceding goals than making them, in front of a wall of defenders, coming nowhere. Modern football.
I think everyone here remembers that night with your commentator's famous speech. 😂
удивительная сборная, по составу чуть ли не сильнейшая в мире, английские клубы в то время не имели себе равных в еврокубках, однако как дело доходило до главных турниров, англичане вдруг становились не похожими сами на себя
I went (on a school trip) to that last game at Wembley v Hungary.
Mariner rix woodcock and gates were surprisingly good
England had almost a dozen of class forwards in this time
England lucky to qualify - they were very inconsistent in this campaign. Why was Clemence picked so often???
Shilton was much more reliable.Don't understand why they alternated.
That England shirt has become so iconic!
Although I haven't seen the other results it did look like a very inconsistent group and England can be very thankful for that. 3 away defeats and a home draw wouldn't normally be good enough.
And England was second in group....Hungary won the Group
@@pablotupone4190 Hungary sucked at WC but during qualifications they were a danger...ask Netherlands, Mexico '86
England vs Norwegian goalkeeper..
Number 4 for Norway is WHO?
Thoae having a go at Southgate need to realise what a struggle England had just to qualify for decades. Full marks to Ron Greenwood for salvaging a bit of pride. Great man. Ditto Keegan and Brooking.
You can’t compare the pish easy qualifying campaigns of now to back then. Far few places up for grabs and you didn’t have all these minnow countries caused by the break up of countries like Yugoslavia
@@jameshunter7303 Exactly. You'd be very hard pushed not to qualify these days! Another point as well was that a lot of Eastern European teams had half their squads all playing for one league team and had that understanding. Yugoslavia would have been a real powerhouse had it not broken up. Good luck getting in their midfield in the late 90's had it not done so!
Shilton still in the team in wlWC 1990, is crazy. was in team since 74, i believe.
No wonder in pen shootout in 90, he was so slow, lol was old as hell.
Yep always thought he looked slow and small in 90.
My dad swears he was the real mcoy in his pomp.
For some reason he was considered by the press in England to be the best goalkeeper in the world at that time!
That Paul Mariner goal!
Thank you for sharing!
Best england kit
Paul Mariner used to miss.....a lot..
Our inability to take chances almost cost us qualification but would be our downfall come the finals
Mariner ended up at Pompey and was well liked.
Yep I agree, I loved Mariner as a deep lying forward with some great weapons , I think the finishing was not so good but this is where Francis should have been played on top with Mariner sitting wider and deeper..Jack Charlton was urging Howe/Greenwood to do this.
19/11/1980 born's day !
Żelazny skład
Ils étaient pas si mal les Suisses ;-)
Terry Mac - so underated
consistently poor for england.
Had this been 1993, England would’ve made the USA 🇺🇸