England at the Euros: an anthology of failure

What if Football

When the European Championship circles back around, we get strapped to the same tired chairs and we're forced to watch the same pictures again and again. We see Bukayo Saka, Darius Vassell and Gareth Southgate missing penalties, the

Icelandic thunderclap. The failures.

From Dzajic in ‘68, Netzer four years later and Pirlo in 2012: England have been beaten by class. From fighting in the stands in Rome, Phil Neville giving away a penalty and Graham Taylor substituting Gary Lineker: England have also been embarrassed.

They should have won it by now, shouldn't they?

00:00 – Introduction

00:45 – Paranoia: 1960-1976

05:35 – Problems: 1980-1992

11:30 – Promise: 1996-2004

17:10 – More Problems: 2008-2016

21:40 – More Promise: 2020s

25:15 – In Conclusion

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