Not Including Yesterday- What's the Worst England performance you have seen?

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

Excluding Yesterday what's the worst you have seen England play?

I'll get the ball rolling...
V Norway (Your boys have taken one hell of a beating)

 

[Simster]

2-0 away to usa under Taylor

 

[KneeOn]

Croatia, in THAT game that meant we didn't qualify for 2008.

 

[sod1]

turkey away in 1991 ,Dennis wise scored scored with his elbow and the 1000 or so England fans out there were chanting "Taylor out" on his first away game

 

[surrey jim]

Croatia game under Mclaren

 

[Ernest]

Far too many in recent years to name one, all of the last World Cup for starters

 

[Durlston]

Northern Ireland away, 2005. Lost 1-0. That was GRIM in Belfast.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

2000 at home to scotland

two shit teams playing a shit match

 

[vulture]

1986 world cup v portugual when they were shit.Carlos Manwell scored and we lost 1-0

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

Croatia, in THAT game that meant we didn't qualify for 2008.

The horrible thing is, at least that was against a decent team playing well - Modric was brilliant for them - and we did create chances. Yesterday was just so much worse.

The Romania game at Euro 2000 was pretty rotten, and although the performance wasn't terrible, the quarter-final we lost to Brazil was awful for the whimpering, effortless way we went out.

 

[1066familyman]

I seem to remember a game in a world cup against Rep.Ireland where the ball spent most of the time in the air. Best game of head tennis you'll ever see. Think it finished 1-1 ?

Fact is there's been plenty and it's hard to pick out any.

Much easier to pick out the best - which for me is the 4-1 v Holland in Euro '96 by a country mile.

 

[Tooting Gull]

Two v Holland. The Euro 88 one (lost 3-1, Van Basten made Tony Adams look a total mug), and the friendly at Spurs a few years ago (lost 2-0).

And the 2-0 away to Norway under Taylor in 1994 WC qualifying, not the 'hell of a beating' one, but arguably a far worse performance.

 

[Gully]

Not necessarily a team performance, but that game in Dublin where the fans misbehaved themselves, made me embarassed to be English.

 

[KneeOn]

The horrible thing is, at least that was against a decent team playing well - Modric was brilliant for them - and we did create chances. Yesterday was just so much worse.

The Romania game at Euro 2000 was pretty rotten, and although the performance wasn't terrible, the quarter-final we lost to Brazil was awful for the whimpering, effortless way we went out.

Actually, the last thing i remember 2002, Brazil. One of my earliest footballing memories. I asked my dad why we were playing backwards, 2-1 down, and with 2 minutes to play. His answer was "because england are shit, you're in for a life time of let downs, cock-ups, 40 more years of hurt, and a hell of a lot of need for dreaming. Your unlucky to support England"... then he opened another beer... but i digress

The point is, that game was pathetic in my young eyes because we didn't even f***ing try to win. We just played backwards, surely SURELY getting the ball up with urgency was more likely to get us through than playing it back to Seaman? Right?

 

[The Ringleader Returns!]

Didn't we draw with Macedonia at home one year and they scored straight from a corner. :facepalm;

 

[Seagulls over Lewes]

Euro 1988 was rather a let down
Lost 1-0 to the Paddies, 3-1 to Dutch and 3-1 to USSR.

0-0 v Israel under MacClown.
2-3 v Romania Euro 2000

 

[Tooting Gull]

Actually, the last thing i remember 2002, Brazil. One of my earliest footballing memories. I asked my dad why we were playing backwards, 2-1 down, and with 2 minutes to play. His answer was "because england are shit, you're in for a life time of let downs, cock-ups, 40 more years of hurt, and a hell of a lot of need for dreaming. Your unlucky to support England"... then he opened another beer... but i digress

The point is, that game was pathetic in my young eyes because we didn't even f***ing try to win. We just played backwards, surely SURELY getting the ball up with urgency was more likely to get us through than playing it back to Seaman? Right?

Good shout, it doesn't have to be defeats to 'lesser' nations. That Brazil display was punch-the-wall frustrating.

 

[KneeOn]

Good shout, it doesn't have to be defeats to 'lesser' nations. That Brazil display was punch-the-wall frustrating.

It was worse than frustrating. It was just lacking common sense. Why have the ball infront of your own box if your a goal down? Get a fast player on the ball, AND RUN and pass and RUN and pass. and shoot. and score.

Attempting that would yeild more results than f***ing playing it on your box.

 

[Yoda]

Take your pick under Taylor, but at least then we HAD shit playing for us so expected to BE shit.

 

[Beach Hut]

Every game Taylor picked Carlton Palmer - I virtually cried