This was comedy gold when watching this as a teenager when it first game on and I still have a giggle when seeing it now but Graham Taylor did not deserve what the press did to him. He was a true gent!
I agree 100% , the press were a disgrace , had we qualified and got to the semis then I bet every manager would have been mic'd up until the next poor sod was vilified.
Hubby remembers Taylor from his days as the youngest manager in the league, at Lincoln City, in the late 70s. He interviewed him post England managership, when he returned to Watford, where he championed players being part of the community and contributing to the community (you got a free ticket to the match if you handed in a bag of food). Taylor was, as far as hubby knows, the first manger to do that: asking players to connect with their respective fans. In that way, Taylor should be remembered for pointing out that football is a community sport, a part of the immediate community that sets the football club as part of the community identity. Unfortunately, the documentary from which this clip come, paints him in a different light. Hubby is loathed to see him remembered this way.
He was a good manager, and an even better man! The press painted him as a turnip, truth be told, like always, he just didn’t have as good a group of players available to him as the English fans and press thought he had. ☹️
Ex neighbour of mine told me when he was manager of Lincoln,the wages weren't great,so Graham used to work as a delivery driver with my mate,and told me how he lost the load once ,on a bend on those bends out there
@@fearthebeard722 thing is either side of his tenure as manager England got to semi-finals at WC 90 and Euros 96. So the players were pretty reasonable.
I feel so bad for Graham Taylor, he was a good man with a heart of gold, just out of his depth with the England job. It's a shame the press hammered him so much.
Must admit, as a young Scotsman, I loved it, & had a Swedes 2 turnips 1 T-shirt. Looking back, it was shocking how he was treated by the press, & agree that he was out of his depth at international football . He was a great co-commentator on 5 live, really enjoyed listening to him.
@@mrmegabreath6442 make your own luck. McClaren made the same mistake of going away to their toughest opponent and going 3 at the back which neither had played nor worked on. In saying that, it's an indictment of the players too. They were so one dimensional in their thinking.
He had his heart in the right place, but was out of his depth at england, but there was no excuse for the press attacks on him, but he did pick some very ordinary players which never helped him win people over
@@nick777forde He wasn't given anywhere near enough time at Wolves and in the time he was there he did well and was in rebuilding....by the way what happened after Taylor? you went backwards. Going down this season by the way.
@@jamespalmer980 You? Ha ha. I'm not a Wolves fan, but you're only as good as your last game for a club and he won only 4 from the 16 opening league games and then resigned on 13 November 1995.
On Radio 5 live and programmes like Fighting talk Graham Taylor was superb. Great club manager, Watford legend and always came across as a thoroughly decent family man. The English gutter press and some wretched so called sports journalists should feel ashamed for the way they treated him…but they won’t, because that would require a conscience, something most journalists don’t have. History will treat him well.
Oh no, that was very much noted at the time! As was Lawrie McMenamy just purring "mmmm" every time Taylor made a suggestion or comment thus making himself look good in the process lol.
Carlton Palmer played for Sheffield Wednesday at the time, who I support. It was great seeing him play for England as he was great for us. First touch of a rapist though. The best quote I ever heard about him as “Carlton covers every blade of grass on the pitch. With a first touch like his, you have to”. Think it was Dave Jones.
Th way its filmed from down low, with Phil Neal just mimicking everything screams modern day Ted Lasso or football comedy. But it was deadly real. ☠️ Graham Taylor was a great club manager, but it went so horribly wrong for him at International level.
This is so funny! It’s more like a group of occasional supporters commenting on a game they’re just watching rather than the blokes who are supposed to be in charge! 🤣🤣🤣
There's a song about how shit we are at football. There's this documentary about how shit we are at football. And that inspired a film about how shit we are at football. Yet people say we're arrogant 🤷♀️🤷♀️
There was a comedy show in Scotland called Chewin the Fat, they did a sketch that I'm sure was based on this. The assistant manager copying everything the manager does 😄
You can do all the prep you like but you can’t odds a player playing a shit ball across the goal. Taylor got a raw deal with the press in his time as manager. Totally out of order. You can’t make chicken soup out of chicken poop.
I always remember when Chris waddle came back to the Premiership from france, and his first season back he was awarded player of the season. And for whatever ever reason he wouldn't pick him, instead we had Stuart Ripley 🤣🤣
54 seconds phil neals one-word analysis explains why he was paid for such wisdom/footballing expertise : i couldnt see him not scoring, could you? ........"NO' 😂😂😂what a plank
"Do I not like that". This statement or question (no one knows which it was) came to define the career of Graham Taylor. Deified in Watford and ridiculed pretty much everywhere else.
Did ok with Aston Villa too, which is what got him the job over Terry Venables. That was rectified after he went and by 1996 England had gone from hopeless to looking like winning the Euros that year.
1min 23 whats with mcmenemys weird hand-gestures? how the hell did he get away with having this job at all? taylor gets all the flack whilst he was laughing all the way to the bank 😂😂
The removal of beardsley and waddle Nothing other than dumb given how good they were in 90 and 86 Also ince needed to be identified as a key player much earlier than he was ultimately by venables. Other technical players like mcmanaman and anderton are ideal for international football and that blueprint has been ignored again with the removal of grealish from the xi
Just like Erickson was overly loyal to beckham and Rooney, despite how shite they’d been playing all season! And that is the problem with the England national team, up until Southgate players were picked for who they played for and not their own form! Lampard, gerrard, Rooney, beckham…….always first in the team no matter what, even to the point of players going on strike if they weren’t picked!
@@fearthebeard722 I think every manager has their favourites. They always seem to bank on there being that one moment of class that makes the difference. Like how Keegan wanted to accommodate Asprilla into Newcastle's squad because of his mad debut against Boro.
At this stage football was more like a basketball game with each side having the ball and having a go.Now players are so fit and cover ground in no time the game is strangled somehow.
I’d have happily seen Taylor and his team strangled. He may have been a sublime manager at Lincoln City and Aston Villa but he was completely out of his depth and clueless at putting together a competitive England side. And after he declared war on the media there was only ever going to be one winner.
Quite why Taylor took so long to drop Des Walker is a mystery. Three catastrophic mistakes in this qualifying campaign against the Netherlands, Poland and Norway.
Taylor’s first game was against Ireland and he dropped Gascoigne on the basis that the Irish would know too much about him. We went from almost winning the World Cup to not even qualifying for the next one. He was a complete and utter disaster of an England manager, nice bloke but a disaster for England.
He wouldn't get near the England team now, thank goodness. The lack of any sort of footballing skill was quite astonishing, even for the early 90s England team. They couldn't find a space for Le Tissier, but could for Carlton Palmer. Says it all.
Im a wednesday fan, Carlton was with us for a while and did the shit while the rest of the team played its stuff. The best Sheffield team in years very underated like Palmer. Memories of the man... his hat trick vs Qpr when he did a josimar celebration and his looping header scored from outside the box vs Everton
We had great battles with lincoln and graham taylor and taylor was at watford and took the team from div 4 to the top league and fa cup final He played at great system at watford and lincoln
What's the betting every manager has their odd little quiks or ways of saying things that the players take the piss out of. I bet if Southgate was mic'd up in the final it would be a similar piss take "Harry , Harry, get back , drop deeper, I know it's only 30 minutes gone but I want you in midfield" "Defend that 1-0 sterling , stop making runs" and ultimately when Italy scored which after seeing us defend for 60 minutes dropping ever deeper in the second half he would have shouted "oh they have scored, do I not like blue" Biggest mistake Taylor made bless him was to appease the media and agree to be mic'd up , he probably hoped he would show them how he could get it to be a winning team.
Le Tissier wouldnt have worked for England, we liked complete midfielders back then, and le tiss was a lazy bastard He would work in todays team though since he was creative and the rest could cover his ass
@@TonySpike they liked hard working midfielders with absolutely no actual talent beyond work rate because the management lacked any imagination. Carlton Palmer and Graham Taylor were the epitomy of that, clueless, useless, but they'd run/shout for 90 minutes as if that did anything. Class and creativity tends to rise to the occasion and I firmly believe Le Tissier would have done that if he'd had the chance.
The problem is the Media, The lack of emphasis on technical skill and managers shitting themselves to be strong in decisions. If I was an England manager at a tournament it probably would be the most defensive, negative football until we got into the 2nd round, The young players would be told to express themselves and defend when we needed to. 1-0 victories would do! I would tell the press to fuck off, I wouldnt allow player interviews at all. Families would be allowed out before games. Treat the players as men not little boys. Why do we constantly get it wrong compared to other nations?
After watching this originally what was telling was has bad as was for Graham Taylor Phil Neil came out of this worse, he just parroted everything Taylor and mcmenemie said, it was embarrassing for him.
If the phrase "yes man" ever enters the English dictionary it will simply have Phil Neal's name beside it
This was comedy gold when watching this as a teenager when it first game on and I still have a giggle when seeing it now but Graham Taylor did not deserve what the press did to him. He was a true gent!
I agree 100% , the press were a disgrace , had we qualified and got to the semis then I bet every manager would have been mic'd up until the next poor sod was vilified.
The press have no shame.
Imagine Taylor was black in 2021, he was vilified in 1992 as a regular white manager.
@@andymule1976 Imagine not bringing race into the fucking topic for no reason whatsoever.
@@paolom.6011it's a totally weird comment isn't it? What world do people like that live in. What an utter freak
Everytime I leave the house without a surgical mask "he's forgot his mask Fred"
Pure Mike Bassett and his assistants. 🤣
We're playing 4 4 fk'n 2 😂😂
Hubby remembers Taylor from his days as the youngest manager in the league, at Lincoln City, in the late 70s. He interviewed him post England managership, when he returned to Watford, where he championed players being part of the community and contributing to the community (you got a free ticket to the match if you handed in a bag of food). Taylor was, as far as hubby knows, the first manger to do that: asking players to connect with their respective fans. In that way, Taylor should be remembered for pointing out that football is a community sport, a part of the immediate community that sets the football club as part of the community identity. Unfortunately, the documentary from which this clip come, paints him in a different light. Hubby is loathed to see him remembered this way.
He was a good manager, and an even better man! The press painted him as a turnip, truth be told, like always, he just didn’t have as good a group of players available to him as the English fans and press thought he had. ☹️
Ex neighbour of mine told me when he was manager of Lincoln,the wages weren't great,so Graham used to work as a delivery driver with my mate,and told me how he lost the load once ,on a bend on those bends out there
Legend in club football
When Taylor signed Paul
McGrath for Villa he helped him through his demons with drink
@@fearthebeard722 thing is either side of his tenure as manager England got to semi-finals at WC 90 and Euros 96. So the players were pretty reasonable.
If I just repeat what the boss does and copy his hand gestures nobody will suspect I haven't got a fucking clue what I am doing here.
Imagine being saddled with those two 'assistants' they done fuck all but not answer back and murmur rubbish 😂
@@johnclegg4993 it’s hilarious 😁
Bradley Walsh to perfection lol
Over the years, I thought maybe a myth had grown up about just how bad Neal was, parroting Taylor. Watching that, I realise it was no myth!
I just copy what the guv does, hand gestures, the lot, no one knows I'm a tard
Phil Neale just agreed with everything Graham said during this whole documentary. Yes man.
"Fucking hell we are in trouble"
- I love how Taylor realises that England's defence is all over the place.
Carlton!
Got to love Phil Neal repeating everything.
...and Lawrie Mcmenemy being a big mouth in the blazer. WTF was he doing in the setup?
Burlats de Montaigne It is called jobs for the boys or my mates
0.49 that face
dirkbogarde44 yeah, got to love Phil Neal repeating everything ..
Inspiration for David Dodds
I've watched both 'An Impossible Job' and 'Mike Bassett: England Manager". I can't decide which is funnier.
On me head not off me head...
You mean you can't decide who the better manager
I feel so bad for Graham Taylor, he was a good man with a heart of gold, just out of his depth with the England job. It's a shame the press hammered him so much.
Let's hope they don't make the same mistake with Gareth...
Must admit, as a young Scotsman, I loved it, & had a Swedes 2 turnips 1 T-shirt. Looking back, it was shocking how he was treated by the press, & agree that he was out of his depth at international football . He was a great co-commentator on 5 live, really enjoyed listening to him.
True. Plus he just never got any luck.
@@mrmegabreath6442 make your own luck. McClaren made the same mistake of going away to their toughest opponent and going 3 at the back which neither had played nor worked on.
In saying that, it's an indictment of the players too. They were so one dimensional in their thinking.
He had his heart in the right place, but was out of his depth at england, but there was no excuse for the press attacks on him, but he did pick some very ordinary players which never helped him win people over
Taylor wasn’t a successful England manager but a truly magnificent club manager. Every club he managed he was adored.
As a villa fan I can fully agree with that comment.
Not by Wolves he wasn't.
@@nick777forde He wasn't given anywhere near enough time at Wolves and in the time he was there he did well and was in rebuilding....by the way what happened after Taylor? you went backwards. Going down this season by the way.
@@doofus4648 Didn't Villa finish second in the league under Taylor?
@@jamespalmer980 You? Ha ha. I'm not a Wolves fan, but you're only as good as your last game for a club and he won only 4 from the 16 opening league games and then resigned on 13 November 1995.
GT, what a hero. A true football genius and a gentleman to the core. Loved and missed deeply by many many thousands.
A football genius,the clown picked Carlton Palmer
@@leepatrick9432 and he dropped Lineker at his height but still a genius to many including me...but then I am Watford
He was a lovely man - but successful with 'provincial' club sides. He was out of his depth with international level.
@@hugodrax71 possibly and in that era the FA didn't throw everything at it they they do now...in these times who knows?
I thought this was a comedy sketch until you realise it was real. Hilarious LOL
On Radio 5 live and programmes like Fighting talk Graham Taylor was superb. Great club manager, Watford legend and always came across as a thoroughly decent family man. The English gutter press and some wretched so called sports journalists should feel ashamed for the way they treated him…but they won’t, because that would require a conscience, something most journalists don’t have. History will treat him well.
3 cheers for Ramirez!
🤣
Hahaha! Three cheers for f*ckin Ramirez?!
That daewoo I brought off you was a fucking disgrace
That'll be the Daewoo🤣. You heard him lads tuck in, nice and bright...oh bollocks..
@@danielmurray569 underneath, it’s a rebadged Vauxhall Astra
The guy in the Blazer might not know too much about football but he’ll do you a cracking deal on a used Daewoo.
The guy in the blazer is Lawrie Mcmeneny. Managed Southampton. Also turned down the job at Manchester United in the early eighties
"I've got one word for you.......Hyundai"
“Don’t get many of them in a pound”
Like a better astra
@@garyowens1517 no reply from Lee...😂😂
Can't believe these 3 didn't guide England to major trophies , said no one ever
Peter Kay would play him well
an under-rated part of this documentary was Phil Neal just repeating everything Taylor said
Oh no, that was very much noted at the time! As was Lawrie McMenamy just purring "mmmm" every time Taylor made a suggestion or comment thus making himself look good in the process lol.
Yeah Bradley Walsh does a good impression of this in Mike Basset's England manager
Yeah, an under-rated part of this documentary was Phil Neal just repeating everything Taylor said.
Carlton Palmer played for Sheffield Wednesday at the time, who I support. It was great seeing him play for England as he was great for us. First touch of a rapist though. The best quote I ever heard about him as “Carlton covers every blade of grass on the pitch. With a first touch like his, you have to”. Think it was Dave Jones.
One of the best contributions - made me laugh
Phil neal the ultimate yes man
The ultimate yes man...yes man
he gave Carlton Palmer a cap. thats the point at which he should have been sacked
This seems way more like a mockumentary than real life 😂
The whole thing is on YT, Taylor was completely demonized and was a top man IMO.
Yeah I bought this on vhs years ago it’s a good watch.
If I was to name three footballing geniuses I'd say, "Pele, Maradona, Cryuff... Batty, yeah?" *stares smugly into camera*
Th way its filmed from down low, with Phil Neal just mimicking everything screams modern day Ted Lasso or football comedy. But it was deadly real. ☠️
Graham Taylor was a great club manager, but it went so horribly wrong for him at International level.
I never knew England were a sketch written by Charlie Brooker until now 😀
“Its made for Wrighty to come on and score, isn’t it?”
This is so funny! It’s more like a group of occasional supporters commenting on a game they’re just watching rather than the blokes who are supposed to be in charge! 🤣🤣🤣
I bet they were told not to leave the bench because of the documentary camera sitting there. Hilarious.
Mike Bassett, Dave Dodds and Lonnie Urquart. Right there. But worse.
Well I wish England had not taken him from Villa. We played some sublime football under him.
If there's ONE thing we ARE the best at here in England is "taking the piss". And our England failure is just pure comedy gold
When we lose our sense of humour we are fucked.
If.
Even the Irish are funnier than the English.
There's a song about how shit we are at football. There's this documentary about how shit we are at football. And that inspired a film about how shit we are at football. Yet people say we're arrogant 🤷♀️🤷♀️
I want Southgate sacked and a return to "the glory days" of failing to qualify. It's hilarious.
My God, how I miss those days.
lmfao, if the camera stayed solely focused on the bench, this would pass for a low budget short comedy sketch.
There was a comedy show in Scotland called Chewin the Fat, they did a sketch that I'm sure was based on this. The assistant manager copying everything the manager does 😄
@@robbiemontgomery581 shit I don’t remember a sketch like this, I’ll need to rewatch it. Definitely wasn’t only an excuse?
@@JVOFH123 Nah it was Chewin the Fat, it's on UA-cam
i was thinking halfway through that it has a sitcom quality about it.
@@JVOFH123 I thought it was Only an Excuse too but either way I remember laughing my arse off when I saw it the first time.
You can do all the prep you like but you can’t odds a player playing a shit ball across the goal. Taylor got a raw deal with the press in his time as manager. Totally out of order. You can’t make chicken soup out of chicken poop.
And yet the managers either side of him both made semi finals at major tournaments.
Jesus, we were a joke for a few years. Two years before it, a WC semi final. Two years after it, a Euro semi final.
I always remember when Chris waddle came back to the Premiership from france, and his first season back he was awarded player of the season. And for whatever ever reason he wouldn't pick him, instead we had Stuart Ripley 🤣🤣
Waddle and beardsley got pushed to the side for more pragmatic (shite) players.
Andy Sinton, Geoff Thomas, Carlton Palmer. No Waddle - criminal.
@@THOMASCOLTON1 any wanker who plays for Palace isn't worth a light.
This is genuinely like a comedy sketch ffs 😆
Phill Neil is a muppet
Do I not like that !!!!! 🤣🤣Carlton Carlton !!! 👌😁
54 seconds phil neals one-word analysis explains why he was paid for such wisdom/footballing expertise : i couldnt see him not scoring, could you? ........"NO' 😂😂😂what a plank
"Do I not like that".
This statement or question (no one knows which it was) came to define the career of Graham Taylor.
Deified in Watford and ridiculed pretty much everywhere else.
Did ok with Aston Villa too, which is what got him the job over Terry Venables. That was rectified after he went and by 1996 England had gone from hopeless to looking like winning the Euros that year.
Turnip Taylor :D
Always fun to watch these just before the tournament's
Why does it look like mcmenemy has just come straight from a job interview
Or court appearance
1min 23 whats with mcmenemys weird hand-gestures? how the hell did he get away with having this job at all? taylor gets all the flack whilst he was laughing all the way to the bank 😂😂
Phil Neal has me crying
That's BETTAAA 😆
Mike Bassett brought me here !
Carlton Palmer 😂😂😂😂😂😂
The removal of beardsley and waddle
Nothing other than dumb given how good they were in 90 and 86
Also ince needed to be identified as a key player much earlier than he was ultimately by venables. Other technical players like mcmanaman and anderton are ideal for international football and that blueprint has been ignored again with the removal of grealish from the xi
So funny.."do I not like orange" will never get old.
He was overly loyal to some absolute planks in that team - Carlton Palmer, Des Walker and Gaza.
Just like Erickson was overly loyal to beckham and Rooney, despite how shite they’d been playing all season! And that is the problem with the England national team, up until Southgate players were picked for who they played for and not their own form! Lampard, gerrard, Rooney, beckham…….always first in the team no matter what, even to the point of players going on strike if they weren’t picked!
@@fearthebeard722 I think every manager has their favourites. They always seem to bank on there being that one moment of class that makes the difference. Like how Keegan wanted to accommodate Asprilla into Newcastle's squad because of his mad debut against Boro.
Brilliant documentary.
It never gets old.
Carlton started it
Comedy gold. Taylor was a genius.
At this stage football was more like a basketball game with each side having the ball and having a go.Now players are so fit and cover ground in no time the game is strangled somehow.
I’d have happily seen Taylor and his team strangled. He may have been a sublime manager at Lincoln City and Aston Villa but he was completely out of his depth and clueless at putting together a competitive England side. And after he declared war on the media there was only ever going to be one winner.
The best football documentary ever..
Taylor may have been a nice guy, but any manager who thought Carlton Palmer was an international footballer lacked a grip on reality.
‘Yes boss’
He was too nice a bloke for that job. RIP Graham.
Classic telly remember this what a great nights telly this was
Lawrie mcmenemy wearing a suit surrounded by tracksuits.....he didnt want the job really
The quintessential football documentary. Absolutely classic stuff
Quite why Taylor took so long to drop Des Walker is a mystery. Three catastrophic mistakes in this qualifying campaign against the Netherlands, Poland and Norway.
Taylor’s first game was against Ireland and he dropped Gascoigne on the basis that the Irish would know too much about him. We went from almost winning the World Cup to not even qualifying for the next one.
He was a complete and utter disaster of an England manager, nice bloke but a disaster for England.
I agree the Irish would've known too much about him.
Deleted scenes from Mike Bassett?
I'm sure it will be funnier once the laughter track is added.
RIP
Fred he's forgot his mask...
That's how covid started
A time where people didn’t realise the full potential of media to destroy you
The David Brent - Alan Partridge Tag Team of Apex England Fusball with Carlton as his midfield Generalismo
When they all said better classic and Phil Neal saying in to go out what a muppet
He's forgot his mask hahahhaha he was way Taylor was way ahead of his time.
Perfect.
Anybody who picks Carlton Palmer deserves all he gets.
My mams better
Pat Viera was just a Carlton Palmer wannabe!
My dad worked on the England physios car, he bought me back an England players shirt. Yes, it was Carlton Palmers. 😔
He wouldn't get near the England team now, thank goodness. The lack of any sort of footballing skill was quite astonishing, even for the early 90s England team. They couldn't find a space for Le Tissier, but could for Carlton Palmer. Says it all.
Im a wednesday fan, Carlton was with us for a while and did the shit while the rest of the team played its stuff. The best Sheffield team in years very underated like Palmer. Memories of the man... his hat trick vs Qpr when he did a josimar celebration and his looping header scored from outside the box vs Everton
In hindsight you realize Taylor was out of his depth as England Manager when he has to scrape the barrel and pick Carlton Palmer
That's how bad things were in that qualifying campaign. Qualified for Euro 92 unbeaten, came home from that humiliated and it never got better.
We had great battles with lincoln and graham taylor and taylor was at watford and took the team from div 4 to the top league and fa cup final He played at great system at watford and lincoln
Phil Neal like a puppett.
Telling Barnes to come in 10 yards- then that's exactly where he gives the ball away for the goal. Inept, incompetent- nothing changes
Absolutely hilarious
JOHN JOHN JOHN
What's the betting every manager has their odd little quiks or ways of saying things that the players take the piss out of.
I bet if Southgate was mic'd up in the final it would be a similar piss take
"Harry , Harry, get back , drop deeper, I know it's only 30 minutes gone but I want you in midfield"
"Defend that 1-0 sterling , stop making runs"
and ultimately when Italy scored which after seeing us defend for 60 minutes dropping ever deeper in the second half he would have shouted "oh they have scored, do I not like blue"
Biggest mistake Taylor made bless him was to appease the media and agree to be mic'd up , he probably hoped he would show them how he could get it to be a winning team.
Exactly, I imagine how bad I'd sound if I was mic'd up at home playing Championship Manager!
comedy gold. Taylor, mcmenemy, phil neil. The 3 stooges.
U talk rubbish pal, from a scotsman
Phil neal most be the most gormless man to have ever been in football,should have had a red card for that face of his
So funny
Dan! Dan! Dan!🤣😉😉😉
nothing like defending your players to the hilt : 1minute 9 mcmenemy doing his impression of a school snitch : " carlton started it" 😂😂
Utterly embarrassing watching this. Imagine what the players actually thought 🙈
OI... CARLTON!!!! STOP TRIPPING OVA YA FOOKIN LEGS!!!
My god it's Mike Bassett.
Where they got the idea for the Mike Bassett film..excellent
I wouldn't mind but they had great young players on the bench!
Did they???
Carlton Palmer, selected over Matt Le Tissier. If that doesn't sum up that generation of England leadership I don't know what does.
Le Tissier wouldnt have worked for England, we liked complete midfielders back then, and le tiss was a lazy bastard
He would work in todays team though since he was creative and the rest could cover his ass
@@TonySpike they liked hard working midfielders with absolutely no actual talent beyond work rate because the management lacked any imagination. Carlton Palmer and Graham Taylor were the epitomy of that, clueless, useless, but they'd run/shout for 90 minutes as if that did anything.
Class and creativity tends to rise to the occasion and I firmly believe Le Tissier would have done that if he'd had the chance.
Bassett at his best..
The problem is the Media, The lack of emphasis on technical skill and managers shitting themselves to be strong in decisions. If I was an England manager at a tournament it probably would be the most defensive, negative football until we got into the 2nd round, The young players would be told to express themselves and defend when we needed to. 1-0 victories would do! I would tell the press to fuck off, I wouldnt allow player interviews at all. Families would be allowed out before games. Treat the players as men not little boys. Why do we constantly get it wrong compared to other nations?
I was 14 at the time of this game & even I could’ve got in this teams midfield
plank
0:08 Gazza ahead of the pandemic !!
Who’d have thought it ???
Laurie McMenemy was such an integral part of Taylor's coaching staff. Surprised he didn't get the job outright when Taylor resigned.
LOL!
He was integrally shit, just like your comment.
After watching this originally what was telling was has bad as was for Graham Taylor Phil Neil came out of this worse, he just parroted everything Taylor and mcmenemie said, it was embarrassing for him.
John.... John! Stay there.... What a f'ing ball...
John , tuck in more ,, all of them doing a universal sign for tuck in more 😁😁 I bet Barnes wondered wtf they were doing 😁
1:42 "In to go out!"
?????
Aw Fuckin' hell we are in trouble....
John!! John!! Tuck in
Yes Boss!