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What is the point of England going to the finals after playing dour, boring, frightened football scraping through preliminaries against third and fourth rate opposition just to be a dull, boring embarrassment when they come up against real teams. Complete waste of time.
Tournaments are a farce anyway. You need plenty of luck to win them. The format isn’t designed to find the best team.
I still don't know how Portugal managed to win Euro 2016.
Italia 90?Best team?We drew against Ireland and Holland and labouredto beat Egypt. We ground out a result against Belgium. We beat Cameroon courtesy of two penalties. One of which was questionable. We rose to the occasion against West Germany for sure. But you can't truly say we were the best team in the tournament. West Germany had been consistently far stronger than us. Italy (with home advantage) were at least as good as us. Argentina, similarly. I'd say we were where we finished. 4th best. Euro 96. Again. Plodding in the qualifiers bar that gem of a performance against Holland. Nothing special against Spain. A decent showing in the semi, but we weren't the clearly better side. You might just about make a case that we were the best side. But then we did have home advantage. And we couldn't make that work for us.