WHY England have flopped since 1966
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- Опубліковано 15 кві 2021
- England is the birthplace of football and home to the richest league on the planet. But in international men’s football, they’ve consistently underwhelmed and boast only one major title: the 1966 World Cup. So why has the England national team failed to live up to high expectations? And are they about to change all that with an exciting and skilful young squad at Euro 2021? We look back at their history of underachievement to unearth the answers!
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Being Scottish I personally enjoy the lack of success, but being also being Scottish I’m not quite sure what success is...
Facing the English turn around and lift your kilts, dear Scottish friends.
@@arminiusdescendant8022 Yeah, that's usually where they take it.
It's totally awesome. I'm German and the 2014 victory was the greatest moment in sports of my whole life... and i'm 53 years old. Good luck to Scotland, you will need it to win a trophy.
I'm saying that without any irony. If Greece can achieve an EC victory, so can Scotland! It's not chess, but football where luck and maybe fate can decide games!
@@krischan67 germany wins all the time so it has a lot less value
What lack of success? Although, you have answered your own question. Life is not about 'Winner takes all.'
The "players hating each other because they play for rival clubs" sounds like an excuse to me. Germany, Italy, Argentina and especially Spain all have players from rival teams in their national teams and are still able to win big tournaments.
Spain is a very bad example. The 2008-2012 generation cared for each other even if they were rivals on the league. The infamous Mourinho even went against Casillas because he was friends with Xavi and Iniesta.
Germans always know that football rivalry ends when the reff ends the game.
Italy and Argentina, they love their nation too much to let team rivalries get in the way.
But in England... most players in the national team are only english by passport. They have no real connection to the flag or the nation to really break their back to get a WC
@@juanjoseph how do you think you know all that? "the Spain team cared for each other", "Germans know that rivalry ends off the pitch" that's such weird things to say. I'm German and I hate half out players and there's huge rivalries here. What makes you say that we don't have rivalries off the pitch and why would it be different for the English NT? Also about the identification thing, have you seen the France squad? You know the squad that most recently won the world cup? Have you seen where all of these players are from? How can you say England have an identification problem and that's why they don't win anything if France won the world cup with near to none French players? It's just excuses, there's nothing about rivalries or identification that England has that other nations don't have
@@mortezz1268
About how the Spanish team cares for each other, there's a lot of things you can read. The example I have was very good. The one about Mourinho vs Casillas. You can watch the very teammates talking about it anywhere.
About the german squad, I'm talking about the german squad, not about you.
And France, they have great players with a great atmosphere. That makes the french team play for the team (instead for the nation, we know almost none of them are french). Never noticed how Deschamps has never called lots of french great players and instead calls the same team over and over?
And yeah. In the end it's all excuses. The english players are mediocre because their league is so competitive there's no place for young players to develop. Either you're Foden or you play on the second division.
@@juanjoseph And that' s a shame because there are some successful english teams like U20.
There is too much money at stake and a lot of preasure to team managers giving young players a real chance.
@@terrycuster4213
And there's another thing to realize, most U teams are inner teams made up of succesfull reserves. If you take a look of the Spain team from 2011's U20 Euro you'll see that it was mostly comprised of Masía and Lezama players. Some of them didn't become super stars but standard-level players (Javi Martinez, Munian), other became flopes (Bartra), and other became great players (Koke, Isco).
The issue is that the EPL expects any young player to either be Foden, Trent-Arnold, Sterling, or take the highway. And the transfer market bussines makes it better for a team to sell and buy mediocre foreigners than to raise home players. Also, many players can become great after 25 or 27. A lad like Kane cannot explode lately in today's EPL.
Club Rivalry?!!!!
Dude, Spain won the 2010 WC with a combination of Real and Barca.
more like Barce with a few Madrid Players^^
Do you know how crazy English rivalries were back then? It was crazy. Especially between the big 6 clubs. Most of them were being constantly compared.
You right jeff . They just looking for an excuse
@@y2g05 Nothing compared to El Clasico. If they were allowed to kill each other, they would have done so.
And Italy winning 4 world cups with combinations from Juventus, Inter, AC Milan and the rest of the big 7 which rivals each other
The legend continues, England lost the Euro final
In a penalty shootout no less. England was so desperate to win before the shootout vs denmark, because they knew they'd have lost it
At least now they know how it feels to be in a final.
Closest we got though since 1966. However our 55 years of hurt continue
@@sexydudeuk2172 56
Ironically, if they'd had actual Englishmen do the penalties they might have clinched it.
Can’t you argue the Brazilian National team has more pressure than England? Imagine the shit they got after after that blowout loss to Germany?
I’m Brazilian and I can tell you the pressure in Brazil is much worse than England.
Not true at all. Many Brazilians dont consider their national team their national team because none of them players actually have played in Brazil for years. At elast thats what my girlfriends family and friends (all Brazilian) keep telling me.
And then won the olympics and Copa America
@@foodguide-lisbon That would be understandable if they weren't born and raised in Brazil and have that deep Brazilian culture. But I kinda agree with the football aspect of it...Brazilian Football aka Ginga aka Joga Bonito is dead. Football is so homogeneous now, no country is identifiable by a unique style anymore.
@@foodguide-lisbon They only say that when they're loosing. Wait until they go to world cup final and you'll see.
I don’t actually think the English team is under much pressure at all because nobody actually expects them to win anything
well all I know is that the usmnt is better
Except the English media, that where the pressure all ways comes from.
A paper replaced a managers head with Turnip, as soon as England get any amount of success in a group stage the media demand that England win the entire tournament no matter the crop of players.
@@jaybot303functionerror4 Yeah I know the media always hype them up, it’s just asking for disappointment
As if other teams aren't under lots of pressure. England's problem is mentality and simply not being good enough. From beginning to end a team should go pretty much under 'quarantine' and shut links with the outside world and media. Focus. England also should train on panalties until it becomes second nature; a penalty shout out is not a lottery.
@@mabusestestament no they just simply dont have the talent. Premier league isnt a top 5 league in the world and none of their players go abroad.
Its happened again, its happened again. England lost penalties again.
there's most countries that have won absolutely nothing At least England won something once
@@Darkscenes-jp4ge being the origin of a sport and winning only one competition fifty odd years ago isn't good at all.
@@danielwoods3896 true but if you went back to 1966 the most world cup's won was 2 so England winning 1 back then was enormous
Because the karma following the goal robbery of 66 ! It was proven even by the english computer simulation in 1995 !:)
It's trully sad to be born in England and to expect your country to win something.
As a German, I'm always looking forward to England losing in the quarter finals or semis. It's nice to have something you can count on, especially since Germany has somehow forgotten how to advance from the group stage.
@Chris Sennfelder England looking strong this time, don't you think Chris?
@@dwkickoff They always look strong... until they lose. England deserves to win another one for sure, but I'm rooting for Argentina this time. I want Messi to get his title.
Here we go, England 😢
@@thesaxon2266 It's hard to say. Sometimes, they're simply unlucky, especially when it comes to penalty shootouts (or penalties in general). The current team is really good, maybe the best since the peak of the Lampard/Gerrard/Rooney era. The match vs. France showed well that it only takes 2 bad moments to lose.
Overall, England surely has had some really dark stretches (the 80s...) and did fairly well since the 90s. Some day, they're gonna win it. (Unless they have to shoot penalties lol.)
As long as they are arrogant I pray they never win it
England is the Tottenham of international football
Yes, that's what people say.
😂😂😂
its coming home
@@jollof4life562 u don't deserve it
@@saruman1700 cope
Why is everyone so harsh on England? Brazil never won Euro, Germany never won Copa America, Mars never won FIFA WC. Why the double standards?
LMAOOOOOO
Oh have you gone mad
jajajaja
Are you gone crazy? England team is borning loving watching Italian, German or other European countries but England is shit nobody love them
You almost got me! You are hilarious- love you!
Please don't tell me about pressure. The Italian team were playing as well as the England team in the final. They were playing Wembley, they were playing in front of an English crowd with barely any Italian support. They had to put up withy insults to their flag, their hymn and to themselves...if that is not pressure what is it? The Italians also plaid in Dortmund in 2006 world cup against the German team at home on their own turf...and they were under the same pressure...they went to win the world cup. I guess someone can stand the pressure and others don't.
gospel
Well said
Maginfico! Grandissimo!
Italia always thrives under pressure. Almost all of their wins were like that. People can said what they want regarding its football, however, for sure is a winning squad. Time and time again, proving themselves against all odds.
@@estevaoscudese I'm glad I am not the only one thinking that.
And they flopped again and they will flop in the future, I've never seen such unanimous support for a team from other nations like Italy had from I guess almost the rest of the world today, the attitude and arrogance from the English fans was painful to watch, got served
Hi Juanelo. Could you please rephrase your comment in clear English, so that I can understand what you're trying to say. (I'm being serious.) Thanks. :-)
@@michaelwarwick9930
English fans -> deluded and arrogants
The whole world -> supported Italy and wanted England to lose
You understand?
@@michaelwarwick9930 learn spanish
@@gontrandjojo9747, exactly.
@Michael Warwick
His english is good enough, you arrogant prick. I bet english is the only language you know.
This thing of England players not playing abroad specifically in Italy, Spain and France is hampering their ability to adapt to playing styles. In addition, the EPL is so focused on physicality instead of technical ability too
Yet when quite a few England players went to Serie A after Italia 90 (Platt, Gascoigne, Walker etc etc), we didn't qualify again for the World Cup til 98...
@@markmeadows1899 Graham Taylor was the coach and was out of his depth. Plus I think it would benefit English footballers being exposed to different styles abroad other than kick and rush.
Bellingham and Sancho are doing well at Dortmund. But they are just another generation of "rich kids".
@@yannick245 I don't understand what you mean?
@@dwanyewest I was referring to OP. Now english players go abroad. But they are still spoiled millionaires.
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Actually no
“Media giants” This is literally the biggest news company in Germany
DW the biggest media in Germany dude 😅
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England had everything in their favor: they played at home, in the semifinal they had a blatantly favorable refereeing, they started winning after two minutes, the rival missed the first penalty. I think the arrogance shown by players, coach, fans and journalists. All this built a climate of unfounded triumphalism for a team that is of the second order. Whose only title was 55 ago in another blatant robbery.
Not to mention the easiest and luckiest quarter final in the tournament
very well said !!! arrogance for sure
Exactly! Well said.
Exactly.
What arrogance did the players and coach show? The nationality of all England's referees were Italian, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, German. Why would they show any favour? There is a home nation at every Euros. Did you only just start watching football. 2016 it was France. 2012 it was Poland/Ukraine. So why are people using this to hate on England.
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Cricket and football are both English yet they have only 1world cup in each
Two across all formats of cricket!
No England have Two World Cup trophies in Cricket across two formats. ICC T20 in 2010 and ICC CWC in 2019 but I get your point.
@@dwkickoff 2019 CWC must be a shared trophy bcuz on the rules that made them win doesn't exist now. Can't say they are the winners of that tournament without a clear result of the finals. 🤷♂️
@@vijaysarathy8436 all the five people in NZ would agree with you
@@raghavrathi6591 okay..?
Edit: Didn't ask anyone to find some New Zealanders who agree with me.
I lived in England in the 80s and 90s and visited regularly during the 00s, and the public attitude before every major international tournament was that the trophy already belonged to England and the games are just a technicality before their inevitable crowning. The number of people who bragged to me about 1966 30 years after the fact as if it just happened last week told me everything I needed to know about why they haven‘t won anything since.
@The Ugly Irish Well luck for you but I can find similarities to what he’s says and what I’ve experienced especially in Euro 2016 , when the English were getting gassed that they won 10 out of 10 but flopped hard in the actual tournament.
@The Ugly Irish it’s something that I remember vividly and people who followed what was going on at the time, will also concur with what I have to say . So what I am an assumption , if it’s coming from personal experience . And you talk about giving when you haven’t given any evidence at all .
@The Ugly Irish What a delightfully hostile response! I have no particular motivation to lie to total strangers, so perhaps I just met a minority of assholes (although I did attend public school, so perhaps I repeat myself). I will admit that the argument has evolved somewhat since I lived in England. Now it's more, "The Premier League is the best in the world, England is the home of the Premier League, therefore England will surely win ."
@@petergeyer7584 Were any of these people in their 20's? because my generation would laugh at you if you said England were going to win anything.
@@keighlancoe5933 Ha! Fair point. I'm close to 50, so most of these people were around my age or older.
Diego Maradona once said that the typical English player is too noble when playing a match.
They flopped again
When club football matters to u more than Internationals football, you're destined to fail.
Not if you are German ;)
@@raykuus9396 yeah, and not if you're Spanish. Mostly applies to the english
Exactly....for me very prominent in EPL....looked at their imported players on all the competing teams..
In club football they only win because of the foreigners Scottish Irish others
i definately prefer Club Football (wich is international too) to Nationalism-Football..
There were many overrated players and English managers were too conservative tactically. When foreign managers introduced positional play, inverted wingers and false nine, many English managers were still using conventional wingers and 4-4-2
They still do, at least at international level.
This is true. And in fact if you look at English football before the influx of foreign managers, many of the most successful managers have been Scottish--Alex Ferguson, Kenny Daglish, Bill Shankly, Matt Busby, George Graham...the list is very long.
Who were the great English managers? Don Revie perhaps epitomises many qualities the English admire, but his teams were tough, combatative and gritty. The one English manager of that era that really stood out was Brian Clough, who had an excellent European record and whose teams played attractive football. But the FA would never have dreamt of making him the England manager.
@@reggie18b Looking back at it dispassionately, the worst thing that happened to England was winning the World Cup as it made people think they were better than they were and legitimised a style of play based on physical and moral qualities, which stopped any impetus for improvement, especially in skill. Unfortunately, at this time the English league with 90% of attacks ending in a high cross was not producing the kinds of players who could adapt their game for England.
At international level players must make good lateral runs at the right time and the ball must be played first-time. And the players must be so adaptable that at times it should be impossible to say who are the midfield players and who are the front men, because they should interchange all the time going forward. But they must be coached to do those things, for players do not play that way naturally.
Its so simple they never had the best team.Had some good teams in their history but not compare them with Brazil,France,Germany,Netherland,Italy,etc.
Short answer: because they are not good enough...
2:50 "Penalties are a lottery. [...] It just happens that Germany had better penalty takers than we did."
If the reason England lost the shootout was because Germany had better penalty takers, wouldn't that imply that penalties aren't actually a lottery at all?
That's like saying: "Football matches are a lottery. It just happens that Germany had better players than we did."
Germany won their place in the 1990 penalty shoot out due to a fluke goal, I think England will beat Germany in regular time next month. Fun fact: It's 12 yards and not 11 meters. Oh and the Ukraine disallowed 'goal' v England that the German press were obsessed with in 2012 was offside. Your silly German media is a really funny bunch.
@@wobblybobengland not sure why you're getting wrong at a valid question ? Its true how can the statement "penalties are a lottery and a skill penalties " be truthful without it contradicting each other? Brits be getting pressed for no reason
@@wobblybobengland England have failed to qualify for three WC tournaments, those of 1974, 1978 and 1994 and only qualified for 1966 and 1970 as a) host nation and b) champions. and regarding the EUFA Cup failed to qualify in 1964, 1972, 1976, 1984 and 2008. A record almost as bad as Finland.England's performance in the ten other European Championship tournaments they entered before the 2008 tournament have been dismal. Not only have they failed to reach the final tournament altogether on five occasions, but they have failed to advance from the first round group stage another four times (1980, 1988, 1992 and 2000). They have advanced past the initial group stage of the final tournament only once in the last nine competitions stretching over 36 years, and the single exception came in 1996, when they qualified automatically as host nation and enjoyed the considerable advantage of playing all their matches at Wembley . This appalling record, more than anything else, establishes that England long ago lost their place among the first-rank football powers. The overall quality of the teams at the European Championship final tournament is considerably higher than at the World Cup final tournament, and performance in the European Championship is thus a much better indicator of international standing.
Even Denmark and Greece have managed to hold up trophies. So face up to reality., instead of waving your red-crosses with "Colchester" or "Slough" painted on them. You don't realize how stupid it looks. And regarding penalties....he's right.
I agree with your point. Penalties can be trained for just like passes, dribbles, or any other skill of the game.
I think the idea is that no team trains to win on penalties. You either have the better penalty takers or you dont. Its not like the rest of the game which teams actively train for.
England's managers are mediocre, some have had more luck than others such as Southgate in 2018. But if the premier league is the best because there are the best managers of the world, England should hire one of them too.
There is so much raw potential with this generation and still Southgate keeps calling the same players
Question is, who can they actually go for as England manager? Fabio Capello was one of the very best and he failed miserably. England have never selected a man from Northern Ireland before, why not Brendan Rodgers?
The premier league is the best bc of the foreign players, not the English players
@@BurnsTennis Rodgers mau not cut it either. Club football is different to international football where they only meet like every few months
@@mojanno4008 Okay, well the question then becomes, who will cut it? Or are England destined to never win another international tournament for the rest of time?
@@BurnsTennis Nobody can do it, as we don't teach managers: we have no one equal to Klopp, Guardiola or Pocchetino. Big Sam is one of the "best" English managers - that's scary
Speaking as a Germany fan 🇩🇪who lives in England and been related to England fans my view is this:
England don’t have players that are skilled enough to be become world beaters Secondly they crack under pressure and if you want to win an international tournament you have to be prepared for those key high pressure incidents
Third, when they play a super power like us, Italy and France etc we have the unfortunate habit of exposing Englands weaknesses such as defence and more to the point penalty taking.
Finally it didn’t escape my notice that Southgate’s England exited the World Cup after coming up against a top class team at a familiar exit point the QF and then blamed the ref for their obvious failings as far as I can see England’s wait is set to continue for a long time yet
"Germany fan" 🤣🤣 as an actual German I find this an amusing fabrication.
warum lügen über so etwas?
@@c.9900
Guten Tag ich kann verstehen , varum sie denken dads ich luge aber ich kann ihnen versichern dass ich die absolute wahrheit sage
@@davidfearby9200 Frohe Weihnachten. Ihre Syntax ist so schlecht, als würden Sie Google Translate verwenden.
@@c.9900 Frohe Wienachten und Gutes Neues Jahr
who came here after they lost to italy
Only British football fans think British football players are amongst the best. The British don't realise outside the UK their players are not highly rated.
Ouch lol
If we are talking since 1966 (the premise of this video) then heck yeah they have had some of the best:
James, Sol, Terry, Neville, Cole, Gerrard, Lamps, Becks, Scholes, Rooney, Owen.
That's all in one team. In the 2000s they were talented as fuck.
Look at the 1996 team:
Seaman, Tony Adams, Mcmanaman, Gasgoine, Ince, Shearer, Sheringham etc.
And that's with Fowler and Les Ferdinand on the bench.
Nonsense. British players are at top Euro clubs like Atletico, Juventus & Dortmund. Stop being a nob
@@mediacenterman8583 A handful of players have gone abroad. It will always be rare as British don't like going abroad and foreign teams rarely buy them. The way British fans act you would think foreign teams were lining up to buy British players like to buy them by the dozen like the French or Brazilians.
@Will Dobson Jadon Sancho and Jude Bellingham are rare exceptions of young British footballers playing abroad. It will always be rare for British footballers to play abroad as few are wanted abroad. Plus the British footballers is insular and parochial minded by nature like thier fans especially white English players.
England only having one major tournament win isn't the most worrying statistic. Winning a major tournament is one of the toughest things for a team to do. The pathetic stat is that they've never reached a final, aside from 1966, and only made four semi-finals. They're consistently shite.
Since 1970 Brazil & Germany have won the WC 3 times, Argentina & Italy twice, Spain have won 3 major trophies, so have France and Greece, Czechoslovakia (as then), Denmark & Portugal have won the Euros... Oh, and Holland might only have one Euros in that time, but they have lost 3 WC finals. It seems major finals are harder to reach for some than others...
Well mate I’m from the future and can tell you that England will get to the Euros final for the first time ever in 2021. We didn’t win it but it’s an important step!
@@wildsurfer12 doesn't matter lol, lost to France in the QF of world cup
England team won't win anything anytime soon
Another 55 years to go honestly
@Fusilier better what? Kane lost a fucking penalty shot, how is that better?
@@CarlinConnolly And now Argentina has 3 world cups ⭐⭐⭐
There is no curse English teams are just not that good.
Thank you for speaking facts, a language the English football fans will never understand! I can't believe that the myth of world class English football still persists. They have never won anything since I was born (post 1966), and will likely will win anything till the day I die. In the meantime my country won world cups, won Italia 90, was several times in the semi or finals, all in my lifetime and I'm under 55 years old ). Take that, greatest Football Nation on Earth!
@@postumus. There use to be a time in the 80's when everybody though that the German team,the western one,was cursed because in the 80's they were in the finals off WC and losing and also couldn't get it done in the EC,that looked like a curse more then the English one but after they won the WC in 1990 it was forgotten.
Spot on not enough skills
Exactly! Since their lone major tournament win in 66 wc they've been to what? 2 wc semis and 1 euro final in 55 years? Yet their nation and fans act like they're football royalty. Netherlands has been to 3 wc finals and at least 5 wc semis (much more success than England) since 1974 yet hasn't won one yet. But their fans don't act like they're cursed or one of the elites.
@@rankoorovic7904 , yes you are right! My English Ex had a cool video series about all the world cups and their teams. Will never forget the one where the German team was hangover from partying the previous night. It was hilarious!
Imagine that we got so far and won some titles. English people my age (the under 40's) have never experienced it.
"Player hating each other because rival clubs". The Greatest Football Rival in the world. El Classico between Barca and Real Madrid 2008-2012, Which peak of El Classico where Barca dominated everything and everytime they met always ended in fight and brutal tackle.. Unite together and Won 2 Euro and One World Cup
There's an old saying that is fairly well established across most Commonwealth countries in particular and everyone else in general . . . I support two teams. My own and anyone who plays against England.
Cheers :-) from Down Under.
... I have a friend who supports two teams .. the Wallabies .. and who ever plays against the All Blacks 😜😜😜
Nah, that’s just you mate
Agreed.
@@EvenWaysMusic Obviously not
that is why you are going to loose always at least once ..:)
It really is because of the British media. Asking strange and stupid questions at the wrong time, making the team nervous, sometimes overestimating the team, sometimes underestimating the opponents. It all gets to players heads. Greetings from Croatia!
English media, m8. The English media talk shit and it just makes them look even more pathetic when they inevitably fail. An example of their bullshit: Rio Ferdinand predicted that England was going to win 4-0 against Croatia in the WC semi-final - and he meant it, too. Can you believe that he said that shit live on TV before the match? This is what I mean, they are so fucking arrogant and deluded. Ferdinand has played the game for 20 years, but he clearly doesn't have a fucking clue. Everyone and their dog knew Croatia were probably going to win and that in NO WAY were England going to win 4-0. Why would he say something so stupid? It's because he and their media suffer from English exceptionalism and truly think they are better than everyone else. They're not, they never have been, and that's why they have won nothing for so long.
This is absolutely true. Not only does the over and underestimate the full team rosters, if they also over hype young players too soon- instead of letting them develop. Right now, all you hear is mason mount and Phil foden. They are fantastic young players, but let them play a year or 2 more before blowing so much smoke up their rears. The Spanish/French media never do that with their gluttony of fantastic young players
Where are you from?
Argentina is much more tribal in terms of club importance. However, playing for the national team is always a privilege and dream for each player since early age because of idols such as Rattin, Kempes, Maradona, Batistuta, Riquelme and Messi.
Punishment for fixing the '66 World Cup. The quarter final against Argentina was one of the most blatant displays of match fixing there's ever been.
Without a doubt!
@@patszer8314 Rattin couldn't keep his mouth shut and continually arguing with the referee will get you sent off.
I agree
2019 Cricket WC final was match fixing too.
Funny cuz Argentina would go on to fix 1978 a few years later
Just like Jay Foreman said
"We were the first and now we're the worst"
Nope, English were the "first" only in the sense of been PIONEERS but NEVER in the sense of been the Best, coz even in the 60s everybody know that the '66 WC was fixed. (attack against Pelé, designated referees in both semifinals, and the "strange" final with the phantom goal).
@@verdadyconfianza5416 Yes, I was saying in the sense of being pioneers. I should have listed that more clearly.
@@OcEleven if the original phrase is in that sense is nlt a problem that I just putting even more clear.
@@verdadyconfianza5416 yeah no problem. It was just used by Jay Foreman in an episode of Unfinished London regarding trains.
@@verdadyconfianza5416 England were the best national team early on in the sports history but there was no world cup in the late 1800s to the 30s and England never really entered the tournament in it's first few iterations and they had beef with FIFA. England and Scotland were the two best national teams at one point but that's mostly due to being pioneers of the game I guess
I m French and i must admit your defeat against Island was very funny.
I'm French too and you comment is stupid. Just shut up. Tu trouves ça malin d'attiser la haine anti-française sans raison? Il y a pas déjà assez de Frensh bashing comme ça? Si tu veux les chambrer, tu peux le faire sans dire que tu es français.
@@ouechmaggle992 I'm not French and I thought Aldo's comment was hilarious and oh so very true. Everyone loves to see England lose. It's part of their DNA which rubs people up the wrong way.
Et, t'as raison . . . les Anglais aiment bien le 'French Bashing' - alors, la vie est comme une boumerang.
@@ouechmaggle992 parce que tu crois que les Anglais se priveront de se foutre de nos gueules ?
Ce seront les premiers à le faire.
@@ouechmaggle992 As a german, i wish England good luck. And france too my lovely neighbor. salut❤️.
P.s germany needs more luck i think 😂
I also enjoyed your defence of the World Cup in 2002.
Argentina: *NO* 😎
Now it's 56 years
I'm from Germany and certainly not an England fan. To say England have "flopped" at every major tournament is unfair. 1990, 1996, 2018 they reached the semis which isn't exactly a flop.
It is called big game choker.
@@leehyunsong7001 they flopped because they had good teams
It's all relative mate
@@lubabalomengu1845 not relative if you know what to look for
@Bao Thuy U.S they play football i didnt know!
I think the main problem, which wasn't mentioned in this video, is that the players are already set for life financially before they achieve anything of note on the world stage with either club or country. If you already have vast wealth, and are surrounded by people telling you how good you are all the time, it must be hard not to believe you are already something special before you have actually achieved anything on the world stage.
Same as every other country then
@@marknewbold2583 Not necessarily. Premier league teams pay higher wages than the vast majority of teams in the other European leagues, which is why so many foreign players choose to come to England.
You could argue that Premier league players' wages are over inflated when compared to the players wages of all but a handful of other European teams.
well, I think EPL has more fans than any other league. Hence even the average players in EPL teams become over-rated
This is it!
English players don’t do well outside of their league. Meanwhile, Brazillian, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Argentinian players can play outside of their respective leagues. They travel well and their talents translates well in other countries. The English are not known for being technical, cerebral masters of the game.
@@unterhaltung3433 WTF does protestantism and capitalism have to do with football tactics? A lot of Germans are protestant as well and we sure as hell are capitalist and yet, you'll find technical gifted playmakers in our teams throughout our history (Häßler, Möller, Götze).
I've never read this much bullshit before, sorry mate.
@@unterhaltung3433 or its simply because a english native speaker usually doesnt like to know other language. Also, its hard to find English national team identity because of its league (a lot of non-english key players in it aka de bruyne, jorginho, kante, pogba etc). Different from other countries like Brazil (Joga bonito) Spain (Ball possession and pass) Italy (Catenaccio, or at least used to be) France and Germany (good and quick pass going for objective) and etc. I cant see england style.
@@majora6392 Many foreign players in Germany don't speak the German language very well. It doesn't keep them from becoming stars in the Bundesliga, though.
@@unterhaltung3433 I really don't see what religion has to do with any of this. Uwe Seeler, one of the best players to never win a EC or WC (he reached second place in 1966 and third place in 1970), is protestant. Horst Hrubesch isn't religious at all (AFAIK) and yet was one of the key factors in the EC 1980.
Religion really doesn't play that much of a role in Germany.
@@majora6392 well now Mancini changed the italian style for every game, like whit Spain long pass and counter attack, or more aggressive whit England ecc... So i don't think that this is the englesh problem
Here after England lost the Euro 2020 in penalties.
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The media need to quit over hyping their young guns and need to send players more like Sancho and Jude abroad .
The icing in vein of Marcus Rashford is what they need the most.
Great Quality .DW
Thing is when we say 'Media', I assume you're including tabloids and Sky etc. they just say whatever will get the most eyeballs. Like the squad announcement, total non-event, turned into a farce by fabricated stories and over reactions, in a desperate attempt to get more views.
Rome that’s it
In 2000 they lost 2-3 to Romania after leading 2-1 at half time.
Absolutely. That's just one of many examples of a game where they led but eventually lost and got eliminated. The same happened to them against Portugal in 2000 (same competition as the Romania game). Typically they rely too much on scoring a goal and defending that one goal... few teams are as negative as England.
More examples:
Euro 1996, 1-0 lead against Germany, lose on penalties
World Cup 1998, 2-1 lead against Argentina, lose on penalties
World Cup 2002, lead 1-0 and lose 2-1 vs Brazil
Euro 2004, score first against Portugal, lose on penalties
Euro 2016, score first against Iceland, lose 2-1
Euro 2018, score first against Croatia, lose 2-1
In spite of this they do not retain the lessons and followed the same script against Italy!
Here after world cup Qatar England -France 🇶🇦 😅
The reason you don't win is arrogance, media arrogance. They like to know all and think they know more than the coach
No ... the basis is racism... and a superiority complex... ua-cam.com/video/nONeTJiT1mo/v-deo.html
Vikandi Help.....Nice to see salty people rolling out the same old boring cliches....... :-)
See you in the final Kraut
And yet again, arrogance from the English pundits and media have led England to another failure at a major tournament, It's going to Rome 🇮🇹
Thomas Scott arrogance? The players on the pitch lost us the game. Semi final of the World Cup, final of the euros. It is looking good, players are very young and inexperienced also so only room for improvement
A few questions here-
1. How many English players regularly play for top UEFA Champions Leagues sides? In other words, how many English players appeared in the QF/SF Champions League in the last 5 years? Compare that with French, Spanish, German, Brazilian, Argentinian players.
2. How many English players play abroad?
3. When was the last time England won against a big team in a tournament (WC and Euros)? From recent times, I can't find more than beating Argentina in 2002 or Croatia in 2004.
Phil Foden scored the winning goal that led man city to the semi final of CL
David Beckham played for Liga in real Madrid
In the euro they defeated Germany in last 16 on a clean sheet
@@mackdane8601 Comparing him to Steve Mcmanaman,Beckham is nothing.
11:55 - No, I don't 🤣🤣
This aged so well. I look forward to more of their failures
One day your gonna be very disappointed, because we will win again one day, I know it.
You must lead a sad life
@@darkstarr2321 too many blacks in the England team to route for them. Those blacks are only English by paper.
@@shinobi2119 What a disgusting comment
@@darkstarr2321 Saka is not English. He’s African. Doesn’t belong in the country let alone the National squad.
The England physio breaking his ankle celebrating a goal (they lost anyway) is the greatest World Cup moment of the 21st C.
they really have a talent for making fools out of themselves while the world is watching
@@cecilebraillie4471 Grow up
@@cecilebraillie4471 True.
If that's your greatest moment you are a sad individual
I'm 68 so I remember 1966 well. I watched the 1970 World Cup, which Brazil won and thought ' Why haven't we got players like Tostao and Rivelinho who can ping it about ? We simply don't work on the skills and play reactive, rather than active football. I just don't watch England as it's a bloody chore doing it.
Born in 66 and have had a similar experience. What has always bothered me most is not so much them not winning, as the manner in which they lost, aimlessly kicking the ball around with no seeming enthusiasm, or ability to attack and score a goal. When I was young I'd feel like I could have made a better effort myself than most of the players, not because I was a good player, but because I would at least have given it 100% and could actually kick a ball that would be on target. The continual lack lustre performances left me not bothering to even watch games, but inevitably getting sucked back in once in a while to find the same.
The last thing comes down to coaching.
Rivelino 😍
It's not coming home.
Who's here after England lost
You guys are too proud over nothing. When you learn to remain humble and grounded, that's when you will start winning.
A little humility is good for the soul. Stop overhyping your players. It puts them under immense psychological stress to perform. That's why they implode.
@Drew Peacock You're a wally!
I agree 100%. I live in Germany and am always amazed that the Germans never make any predictions about how far their team should get. The English are ALWAYS on about 'We are good enough to win this'.
I think the crowd cheering makes the players too pressured and stressed
...I don't think it would be enough! They culturally suck a at teamwork! They'll never drop their own "calculator". Football is a team game. That's why I don't think the achievement of utopia (humility) would see them winning! ☺
The important point you’re all missing is that England have not had 3 West Ham players in the starting XI since 1966 ⚒ That could be easily solved this year and then job done!
Rice and Lingard... who's the 3rd? You have more chance of getting 3 West Ham players in the Czech team!
Ukraine
England FA should hire Penalty Consultant. And the person should be German!
First rule: don't play a 19 year old as your 5th penalty taker during an international cup final.
Second rule: don't undervalue your opponent. The english never studied Donnaruma so they didn't know he's arguably the best goalkeeper in the world right now
@@juanjoseph we just haven't been in a final for so long i guess we didn't know how to play it. we didn't press once we got a 2 minute goal and let Italy run all over us. well played Italy but next time can you please not be dirty aha
@@alfievfx
Italy was not dirty, but knew when to foul. Re memner tactical fouling still exists outside of the premier league hahaha
Also remember next time to watch the other leagues in Europe, Italy was always the best team in the tournament and second was Spain, but it always felt like every media outlet, fan, and even every player on the English side thought England was the big fish in the Cup.
Don't underestimate other teams as far as to let them play the game their way, and don't park the bus against teams that specialize in breaking buses hehe
@@juanjoseph Italy was dirty, pulling someone's shirt purposefully is dirty, i don't care if its a 'tactical foul'. and Italy play dirty like always but hate it when it happens to the, take the dive against Spain. don't be so naive
@@alfievfx
It's not dirty, is tactical fouling. Dirty is injuring players. That shirt pull was an amazing tactical foul. And all great defenders make well use of tactical fouls. Never saw Ferdinand and Terry play? They also commited lots of these types of plays in their day.
Sadly all teams dive now (England got into the final by a dive). But FIFA is not doing anything against it, no one is booking Neymar for diving even when it's on the rules he should be booked.
UA-cam algorithm..
On the next episode,
We find out why Tottenham have been shit since 1961.
Or why Man City have been unstoppable since 2009. Or man United have been shite since 2013.
And then poaching a number of Arsenal's best players (also the greediest) from Wenger while Arsenal was financially in the red (no pun intended), both during & shortly after the new stadium development...
As a Scot whose team has been impotent for 23 years, I can only look on in envy at the chance of a semi... 😄
Hehe! Nice one Mac
Haha England and Scotland can mutually bond over our terrible football teams.
You guys played great against England yesterday. England was disappointing
Why can't there be a UK team instead of England, Scotland, Wales teams? That would be great IMO.
@@Heisenberg2K The UK is not a country.
Who is after Euro 2021 Final?
If you go into penalties with this mindset - " penalties are a lottery"- you're not likely to win often. Why is it that certain teams always seem to win on penalties ( Germany, Argentina )
Another Quality upload. What a channel! Keep it up.
Unrealistic expectations - that's England's biggest problem, all things considered in every generation there's a significant number of countries who simply have more naturally gifted players than England.
Therefore, every tournament England venture into they expect to win it yet they're realistically behind several other nations on the queue.
Croatia are the ones that should have unrealistic expectations! For a team continuously ranked so highly England have massively underperformed.
@@mikeXTC3204
🤣🤣, it's true - Croatia should have unrealistic goals since they regularly seem to punch above their weight!!
England on the other hand just proved my point again, somehow they keep being highly rated when in fact they're not that good - they are a good team but not world cup winning material.
In fact they should be proud that they got to the quarter finals and were beaten by this French team.
Something i would never understand is, how the english Media call this 2006 Team " the golden Generation " ? What have they acchieved ? No one in the World called a losing Generation " " a golden Generation ". What does that means for god sake ?
Ah! England's in the finals now, let's see how this play's out.
LOL It came rome
Lol they lost
lel
We missed 3 out of 5 penalties, we're fucked... I trully think i'll die without seeing England champion.
Rashford should’ve scored that though
My perspective as an English person who doesn't care for football but occasionally watch the big tournaments like the Euros and World Cup is that a lot of my football fans (like a lot of my mates) like to sing it's coming home before big tournaments but the majority of them do it ironically and as an excuse to have a few pints at the pub and sing.
Unsurprisingly, given the writers, it was always meant to be ironic. It originally read "yeah I know they can't play, but I remember... etc". Not a lot of irony in the terraces.
Most foreign viewers who don't live in England don't know this and actually think we are that cocky
@@fadirilastname4528 you people are cocky with or without the irony of song or whatever and also proudly racist on top of that with a very thin veil of pretentious formality to not show your true reality
@@fadirilastname4528 It is cocky. Football doesn't belong to England, it belongs to the world. Deal with it.
@@Clery75019 its not cocky because we no we will prob lose but we sing it with tounge in cheek you need to understand english humour, trust me when we are singing its coming home not one english fan actually believes it how us knowing we get to carried away but we like to pretend its our time because its nice to believe it even know deep down we would never put our money on it, we will only stop when it happens but until then its coming home lol people taking it like we actually think it is as if we dont know we getting excited for nothing but thats why we still sing it to show how we always believe and act like we weill win to know we will get our hearts hurt every time. so dont take it seriously we just love to sing it because its a dream we have that makes us feel good
I also think there is an issue with player mentality over the years. If you think back to when players use to regularly play abroad, I feel England were more competitive. Nowadays I feel that players are happy to sit on the bench or reserves rather then try to move abroad to get regular playing time. Props to guys like sancho who made a go of it and embraced a different culture, language and playing style.
well, nothing has changed england broke under pressure and lost the penalty shoot-out and the fans did the same disgusting again
50 years of ego and superior complex and failing.
"Dont' you think it's the English time?" No, it's not.
When England get to world cups, or Euros, they seem to look nervous for some reason, and opposition teams feed off this.
Englands failure on penalties is tragicomical. This time I thought they had learned their lessons - only for the trainer to blow it big time. It's of no importance who takes penalties well IN TRAINING, the actual match is all that matters. They were doomed when Southgate brought in Rashford and Sancho minutes before the end of extra time.
I agree. They didnt learnt
"It's coming to Rome....
It's coming tooo Romeeeeeeeeee..."
- Leonardo Bonucci
We've just not been good enough
The main issues are lack of coaching and technique that is slowly being addressed, but we still have far too few qualified coaches. International tournaments are played in the summer in the heat. Games are slower, methodical with technique, short bursts of speed and precision with possession and control being very important. Also speed comes from moving the ball at speed from player to player, rather than the player making the movement which used to the case in the English game where releasing the ball to a player charging into space was ground into players from the earliest age. However, some PL games look more and more like what we once called continental football. The game is very different these days. We just don't realize it. Retaining possession in the England game is secondary to moving the ball to the forwards as quickly as possible. Hold onto the ball and taking your time in England will quickly lead to whistles from the crowd. Whilst this makes for compelling viewing in the domestic game especially when this all action approach involves the world's best players as per the Premier League, it isn't an approach which an international team can use to win tournaments in the summer.
Also during the Premier League era there are very few if any English players who were pivotal to the success of the most successful clubs. This may finally be changing now with the current crop of talent. And if coaching can now bring through more technically gifted players then England might finally lift another trophy.
i agree with you in general but in 1978 the world cup was played in argentina in the summer when it is winter there. england , of course didn't qualify, but the best teams were the usual suspects, argentina, brazil holland, and italy. all teams that at least at that time had superb technical players. so the cooler temps didn't effect their style. or favor less skilled or more athletic teams. in the world cup just played may support the argument that england have both athleticism and skilled players b/c they scored a lot of goals and outplayed arguably the best team in the world , france.
While valid, none of those points are exclusive to England. Spain and Italy win things yet their domestic leagues are full of top foreign players, domestic rivalry, enormous media pressure, pressure of national expectation, and so on.
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England has several extremely high profile players that are very young and something that happened with Spain a decade ago could also happen with England. In Germany there are lots of discussions why young English players are suddenly so good and the Bundesliga clubs rather get young English players than giving their own young players a chance or why they are simpler better than their own (i.e. Sancho and Bellingham at Dortmund).
It's coming Rome 🇮🇹
Not good enough even when they get a home tournament but there wasn’t any dodgy officials this time.
No dodgy officials, eh? Then how do you explain that penalty England were awarded vs Denmark...?!
@@lavielemond I meant at the final if you read it correctly. There was a dodgy ref in the Denmark game who didn’t even check his monitor when Sterling dived for the penalty. Very dodgy.
@@thomasseery7570 I read it properly, mate...you never mentioned the final but rather, the "home tournament"...anyway, it seems that we're on the same 'side' here (ie not England), so let's not argue, eh?! Cheers & best wishes from "Down Under", bud...
@@lavielemond That’s cool mate. Yea, we’re on the same side. Just a little misunderstanding, regards from Bonnie Scotland.
@@thomasseery7570 Cheers mate...LOVE the Scots, btw...even spent a week in little ol' Oban & Tiree back in '98, during my 6 months spent in the UK that year...take care & have a great summer, bud...
Another reason: unlike Spain, Gemany or even Italy to a lesser extent, England have more top clubs in its first division so it cannot benefit from having a lot of players who already play together at their clubs. 2010's Spain and 2014's Germany benefited greatly from Barcelona's and Bayern's game models.
Good point Bruno. And a Super League might concentrate that talent even more...or maybe not if they are banned from national teams!
Interesting point, it must definitely help having a core group of players that spend the entire season together. How about France though?
@@dwkickoff My interpretation is that it has to do with game model: if you wanna practice a dominant possession-based style of playing like Spain and Germany did, you'll have to have that core group of players simply because in international football you won't have the time to train them to do it properly, given it is a more complex model. Otherwise your model needs to be simpler and rely on individual talent like France did, with a less dominant and more direct style of football.
@@dwkickoff How about Portugal tho?
@@RafaelSantos-di5yw Portugal the same as England but with players in other leagues thats why we cant win more times althought some good performances at WC and euro
Here after we beat Germany after 55 years
Incorrect
They were outplayed by Germany in 1966 and had a goal awarded that wasn't a goal they have never been good enough to win anything. It's self delusion they are second rate and probably always will be
they shouldn't even be in final...talkin'bout penalties...what about denmark
It was a goal 😂
In 66 they were suppose to play Portugal at anfield in the semis and they changed the game to Wembley on the day of the game.. so the Portuguese team had to travel from Liverpool to London on the day whilst the England team were already in London.. and they act suppose why they keep losing.
@@J_x2 Watch the match England France in 1966 (2:0) both english goals were illegal
Imagine not being the most succesfull nation in Europe
This is the most honest admission by an English football fan of what their team is capable of achieving. Simple short answer: mediocre player skills and over hyped expectations from fans and media.
Yup. I once met a England fan who once told me that Carragher is a far superior defender and Captain than Lahm in 2010. He said Lahm plays for a poor league compared to Carragher, so Lahm can never reach world class level like Carragher. 4 years later Lahm, captained his Bayern team to a treble and Germany to the world cup, without getting a red card in his career while Carragher's idea of defending is fouling the attacker before he shoots on goal.
ITS COMING HOME
NOT REALLY FOR 54 YEARS
English people : It's coming home .
Reality: a Sad realisation when fans understand that it has a new home, which is everywhere but here .
Fixes? : Copy France maybe & make the England football team majority Africans .
@@Jester.D.Joker5612 Maybe
Portugal always seems to be a pain in the posterior for England.
Hehe guilty😄
Watching this after they again failed in euro and wc 🤣
but even 1966 you did not win.
England hasn't been under pressure for a long time now. I know people like to pretend that England fans are delusional and arrogant, thinking we're the greatest and that we deserve to win everything, but the reality is that we largely gave up on the national team a long time ago, and now we just embrace the memes and make fun of ourselves.. We accepted we're crap. Yet some people can't stop unironically shitting on us. I guess doing so must give them some enjoyment.
Yeah! They 6-0 Bulgaria and 4-0 Ukraine while Portugal lost to Ukraine 2-1 😮
I think the answer is simply that the English may not be that good at football, really.
It is what it is
@@robertseymour1432 only three guys, you need more to win a big game.
I’m here after 2022 Qatar world cup
I will answer that! They haven't stopped talking about 1966
I'm a Scotsman but after the rubbish last year in the world Ill be cheering them on if they get to the final. They have a good chance.
Why would a Scotsman support England when Scotland are in the same group?
All I can see are excuses....as if Italy , Germany, BRAZIL etc have no pressure
The toothless lions
Nothings comin home