Frank Booth Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 From 1960 till 1976 the Euro Championships entrants were a mixture of invitations and subsequently qualifying groups with only the semis and finals being in a pre-selected country, much like the way the CL and UEFA cup final destinations are still decided. Since 1980 it's been run on a group based finals, with the host country taking part. England qualified in 1980, 88, 92, invited in 96 as hosts and 2000. In all that time they have only won 3 1st stage group games and, apart from 96, have never progressed beyond that 1st group stage. They are fucking shite in this competition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Sanchez Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 As a Tartan Army foot soldier at Euro '92 I have superb memories of the night Sweden parped them out of the tournament in the first round. We were in a boozer in a wee village in the middle of a forest in western Sweden, and we were like a tourist attraction for the locals.They all came to the pub to watch us watching the game. We were decked out in Sweden shirts,plastic viking helmets and most of us had Swedish flags painted on our faces. England had to win,and the Swedes took it better than us when David Platt made it 1-0 . It looked like a happy ending,though,when Sweden equalised (meaning that England were out in the first round as usual) but it got even funnier when Graham Taylor hooked off Gary Lineker,and then the Swedes took the pish even further by knocking in a late winner. The notoriously expensive bevvy then suddenly became free in the boozer,and...erm...f*ck knows what happened after that. All I remember is a life sized cardboard cut-out of Swedish scorer Thomas Brolin being removed from a newsagents and making an appearance in the Scotland end at our game the next day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Booth Posted June 14, 2004 Author Share Posted June 14, 2004 All I remember is a life sized cardboard cut-out of Swedish scorer Thomas Brolin being removed from a newsagents and making an appearance in the Scotland end at our game the next day. LOL...fantastic, probably a lot less carboard was used than the following season when he signed for Leeds. THE most abiding memory of that tournament was the stunning blonde police woman kissing the Glengarry clad Scot on the cheek. B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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