That's as many knockout games as England have won in all tournaments since 1966. To put that into context you need to win four knockout games just to win one of these international tournaments.
There's clearly some fundamental route problems with the entire England footballing setup and it must start with the FA and their approach to the England football team.
The FA needs to start facilitating a system where the best England team plays in these tournaments as opposed to the most marketable English players shoehorned into a team because that clearly doesn't work.
It seems that England managers are pushed by the FA to pick certain players for marketing and sponsorship reasons and that can't be right. I doubt that Sir Alf Ramsey would have willingly been England manager under those conditions.
Six knockout games
posted on 28/6/16
Brian Clough would never get a job in this sanitized, PR driven commercial world.
Southgate will though.
posted on 28/6/16
Southgate, the man that was sacked by Middlesbrough. Can't wait.
posted on 28/6/16
It's okay, the FA are setting up a review into our Euro 2016 performance, so the people who are partly responsible are looking into who's responsible...
We're great at this by the way, setting up committees and reviews, blue sky thinkers and the like but we never actually do anything.
posted on 28/6/16
And of those six, three went at least to extra time.
posted on 28/6/16
Maybe we're just unlucky?
posted on 28/6/16
"Southgate, the man that was sacked by Middlesbrough. Can't wait."
To replace the ex-West Bromwich Albion manager,exciting times for England...
posted on 28/6/16
comment by BruceAndPally (U8201)
posted 2 hours, 10 minutes ago
It's okay, the FA are setting up a review into our Euro 2016 performance, so the people who are partly responsible are looking into who's responsible...
We're great at this by the way, setting up committees and reviews, blue sky thinkers and the like but we never actually do anything.
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They promise a review everytime we get knocked out, and then we go and do even worse next time out.
Maybe they shouldnt review it this time, what the worse that can happen.
posted on 28/6/16
It's okay, the FA are setting up a review into our Euro 2016 performance, so the people who are partly responsible are looking into who's responsible...
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This is the problem. An independent review is required but of course the FA would never sanction that.
posted on 28/6/16
What exactly is 'marketable' about the shower we sent to the Euros this year? They were the best players we have essentially. We just don't have the talent we used to. How can anyone have greater expectations for this lot over the 2002-2008 teams (who were also dismissed in the K/O stages)? I'm surprised we even made it through the group stages with a team full of Leicester and spvd players.
posted on 29/6/16
What exactly is 'marketable' about the shower we sent to the Euros this year? They were the best players we have essentially. We just don't have the talent we used to.
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Have to disagree with some of that. Why was Wilshere taken ? Hasn't played all season but features in a couple of pre-tournament friendlies and he's on the the plane to France.
Then you have players like Andros Townsend who so often do the business for England and yet he gets disregarded because he's now playing for a less fashionable club than his former club Spurs.
Players need to be picked for England based on how they play for us and on exactly what specific role they can bring to the team effort. Not based on PL hype, how big a name they are or what club they play for etc.
Sir Alf Ramsey didn't pick the players that he thought were the best in each position, he picked players based on what they would bring to the team as a whole and on exactly how he wanted the team to play.
We seem to have veered so far from that now, especially with all the hype from the Premier League that we're constantly immersed in.