Quote Originally Posted by erics44 View Post
unbeaten in 82
went out to handball in 86
a penalty shootout at the end of a game we dominated in 90
keoman should have been sent off in 94
penatly shootout in 98, if beckam should have been sent off then so should simeone
2002 we went out to a cross
2006 went out to portugal on pens and we could have played 360 minutes and portugal would never have scored even after we went down to 10 men
2010 cappello
2014 dont want to talk about it
Yep don't think we were good enough to win it in 86.

90 - whoever won our semi was going to win that's for sure

94- pathetic campaign regardless

98 - it's a serious flaw that players get sent off for the retaliation foul (did simeone get a yellow I think he did ??)

2002 - imo, even as a negative England fan, the winners of that match were going to win it

2006 - rubbish world cup that was again there for the taking if we'd got through

2010 - we were shite but I don't care what anyone says, if Lampard's goal had stood (it was well over the line) that would have changed that game regardless how shit we were. When a team has dominated and is 2 up then suddenly 2 all at half time from nowhere it changes things massively.

2014 - had to google it as couldn't remember !! Yes shite

2018 - we weren't great and I would have been confident of winning the final had we got there. We weren't as good as France but I just think our name would've been on the tropy. But two massive plus points - we won a penalty shootout after 22 years to put that ghost to bed AND more importantly our youngsters won the fans back playing decent football.

And next month.......