What went wrong for England at the 2006 World Cup? Cole and Crouch look back at the tournament
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- In a team with some of the great England players in recent history, the side was expected to go deep in the World Cup of 2006, but failed again. Joe Cole and Peter Crouch look at what went wrong with the size.
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England disrespected Defoe on too many occasions, unforgivable not taking him ahead of Walcott
Same with the 2010 wc Capello kept on picking heskey over defoe and crouch
Yeah with him England had won the world cup😂
@@arsenalfan9213 and when he did finally pick him, he scored in our only win!
Yes Defoe definitely should of gone instead of Walcott. Rooney shouldn’t of been playing upfront on his own he has isolated he had no support no service. Walcott should of come on against Portugal. Carrick should of played more often
451 was the wrong formation playing gerrard and lampard together didn’t work either. Joe Cole was a fantastic player team could off been built around him more.
Couldn’t believe Lampard and Gerrard missed their pens when they dispatched them with no remorse week in, week out in the Premier League. And Carragher stepping up WTF.
shiv .s carra in trading was really good at pens just got unlucky he missed and if wasn’t he the one who had to take it again .
Let’s be honest club before country..
They score pens in the premier league with little amount of intensity. But the World Cup is a different kind of intensity, with much more pressure with millions of fans watching them. I'm not using that as an excue because they're professional players who should be able to handle pressure, which they can't.
Penalties are a crapshoot and every top player missed one in the World cup, they played 120 minutes just before shooting their pens and both had long seasons that knackered them before the World cup. Carra took one because Sven thought he scored at Istanbul.
Carra took one because they practised penalties in every training session and Carra had the best record
Calling up Walcott at 17 after playing no games at Arsenal was stupid. Sticking rigidly with 4-4-2. Tabloid media’s usual jingoistic pressures and of course because “Footballers Wives” and “Dream Team” were a thing in those days, the WAG obsession.
What's even more stupid is that Sven never even used Walcott as a sub once. Why bring an untested overrated teenager who was still learning the game into the World Cup! I mean have we ever seen the best of Walcott since?
I Mean we brought Rashford into the latest Euros with no Man U appearances and he did wonders but saying that Walcott didn’t even play so it was pretty pointless
Yeah but wasn't didn't Walcott playing for a championship team when the media overhyped him and Sven believing in the hype.
@@Onmysheet I was at the friendly against Jamaica just before this world cup. Sven brought Walcott on as a substitute, he looked like a boy on a field with men, physically he looked tiny, and he looked clueless positionally. I wasnt surprised when he didnt get a game at the tournament. Sven ballsed up, big time.
Luke Opieler Rashford had played games for United before the euros though...
Joe Cole lives on the stairs to the weatherspoons toilets 😂
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The problem was England were obsessed with how do we get all our players in the starting XI rather than what’s the tactic which best facilitates our best players
Gerard and Lampard never gelled together and were over run in midfield. Michael Carrick should’ve been in there and Scholes should’ve been there too.
Scholes retired from International football in 2003
@Sulaiman Hamzah ..or a 4-4-2 diamond.
Scholes did have some health problems in 2006 - doubt he'd have been up to playing.
Scholes retired after Euro 2004 and developed a Vision issue which is why he missed final half of 2005-06 season.
Carrick never did much even when he was playing. He played almost every game in 2006 and was anonymous
Honestly this question applies to England at almost every World Cup.
Only English people seem shocked when they lose
None of the squads were as good as 06 tho wouldn’t of expected any of the other ones to win it other then maybe 02
@@teey1287 Other teams around at the time were just as good. Do ye not remember the teams France and Brazil had?
notthis prickagain I’m talking about the other England teams at world cups
@@notthisprickagain8499 euro 2004 was probably the tournament they should have got closest to winning, as it seemed most teams were a shade off their usual quality.
2006 had so many legends in one tournament. Although england had a decent squad look at brazil Italy france they were superior
It's the same every tournament and yet the English media can't seem to see it.
keith Johnson yeah but i feel Argentinia are blessed only attacking wise. I guess theres cambiasso in the middle but the three I mentioned had world class most positions. People talk about the italy defence but forget they were blessed with attacking options have a del piero inzaghi luca toni on the bench
@@Ninja-gt3zi In 2006 Argentina had a first class back line. Samuel,Ayala,Sorin,G.Milito and Heinze. They also had Zanetti available but for some reason didn't take him. It was after 2006 that their backline slowly got worse.
Societyne the team selection was awful. Only samuel was great in that list. Others wouldn’t get in the other nations
Superior my arse. England had better players than Italy. France's squad wasn't Superior either
That incredible battle against Trinidad & Tobago. I think I fell asleep a dozen times
@Anthony Mcken England vs ecuador was pretty bad as well. England was involved in some of the worst matches of that world cup.
@@Reddragon-hn6ot and pretty much every world cup since. Even the last World Cup was only built on good set-pieces.
@@100sky3 This is not necessarily bad. Set pieces play a very significant role in modern football, Italy in 2006 world cup worked in that aspect as well. England in 2018 was not fascinating but through their cynical type of play the went far and had a big chance to reach the final since so many decades.
Anthony Mcken exactly so many of those England players that played for Man U Chelsea and Liverpool were divas
@@100sky3 And a luck draw , that saw us play the ;jets just say ''easier'' teams .
Might wanna reconsider Joe Cole as a pundit, said the same thing 6 times and took 3 years to say it. Painful.
Alex Bonnar very true took him about 2 minutes to say 20 words
I can feel my IQ dropping when I listen to him talk
Alex Bonnar I honestly don’t know how some of these simpletons get paid to talk. Merson, Owen ....
Nick M maybe cuss they were decent at football . Something u clearly weren’t
Nick M Merson is unarticulated yes but he’s great to listen to and has strong views 🤷🏼♂️
I feel like they talk about this every week now
Nathan Johnston they really do😂
I know, they should talk about 2010. We went into that as favourites as well with Spain, Argentina and Brazil. And eventually got beat by a young German team.
G Host your 100% correct mate but they have pundits that only want to talk about themselves and their career which I think is not right
The awkward silence between Jake Humphrey asking questions and the replies is ridiculous
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“Peter?”
should be called zoom talk, it's the norm now.
It's lag between the calls. Happens all the time especially on international calls.
delays mate
In 2006 we were billed as one of the genuine favourites for the first time since 1970. I think this created a probelm for the squad, as they were used to being a quarter final team that hoped for a bit of luck, or rather to be in the second group of decent teams behind the real favourites. The players media strategy or natural reaction was to talk their chances up which caused the German media to label us "the self appointed champions"; but I don't think it was arrogance that lead them to talk this way but inexperience. This is the world cup where "playing with fear" came in, the build up and the top billing had a part to play in that.
The other issue was that our top billing was based on a fully fit and available team, we ended up without Owen (who wasn't fully fit in the games he did play) and then an unfit Rooney. Imagine if Germany had been missing Klose and Podolski or Italy had lost Del Piero and Inzaghi? No team can lose two class strikers like that and live up to the pre world cup billing.
Even with all that, we eventually went out to a Portugal team that couldn't beat a 10 man England, after the referee (who should not have been given the game) sent Rooney off because of a slow motion big screen replay that didn't show the whole story (Rooney was being fouled by two portugal players - the one hanging off his right arm let go and his weight righted itself cuasing the accidental "stamp" when the ref gave...a freekick to Portugal).
Yes I know he sent him off for the push on the winker - but at the time it was generally accepted that was just the presentational excuse for the "stamp" the ref saw on the big screen.
Definitely Defoe should have been there
England have had some great squads, plenty of talent to compete, a big thing for me that people seem to miss is there are so many other countries who have top top players throughout there squads at each of these tournaments
Taking young Theo Walcott to the WC 2006 was the biggest mistake SGE, as at that time England had decent top Strikers
What went wrong? Crouch decided to pull Brent Sancho's rass during a game against Trinidad and Tobago in the group stage
Great interview.
Beating both Italy and France in the semi's and Finals would have been tough though.
Had we taken Jermaine Defoe it would have been a lot different though, as we would had an one other striker who was fit!
Also at the time Rooney was a bit young to be playing up front on his own. He lacked the experience and he had been injured so very tough.
I was just thinking yesterday as BT and Sky are clearly running out of content to post, who is going to cover the "Why didnt the England team of the 2000s win anything" topic first for the 373728th time?
I know this feels like a lot but having seen ESPN reach that number for Lebron vs Jordan on the second day of the lockdown, this feels like a breath of fresh air
The main issue was never having a World Cup keeper during these golden years:)
Totally agree. The lack of a safe pair of hands meant panic as soon as the opposition got into our half. Contrast the David Seaman years, when so much seemed possible.
Robinson was alright. He wasn’t the reason England failed in 06.
It helps to have a Banks, Shilton or (maybe) Seaman. But I don't think that was the main problem.
@@S97777 he not a robert green at least
Robinson kept 4 clean sheets in 5 games.
France, Brazil, Germany and Italy were better teams
Back then when all the big teams had great and legendary squads
😂 player for player England had by far the best squad. What are u lot on. Owen and Rooney up front. Neville,Rio,terry and Cole at the back and becks, Gerard, lampard and Cole in midfield. Show me the team with 11 better players. We were playing 4-4-2 and getting outnumbered in midfield every time
@@djod80 yeah, they all had good teams, that was truly the last best world cup. They lost on penalties, against a worthy opponent. All games betwwen all big teams were even
@@djod80 Brazil had Ronaldo and Ronaldinho. Have Rooney and Owen ever been as good as those two in their prime?
thrilla72 Rooney > Ronaldo Ronaldinho > Owen
That Walcott decision was bizarre. Sven never worked out how to play Lampard/Gerrard together. Rooney wasn't fit. Too much hype from the media.
Simple, the manager had no clue and kept using that awkward, outdated 442 formation. Gerrard and Scholes on the wings, Lampard as a deep lying midfielder, Rooney constantly isolated up top and the criminal underuse of Defoe and Crouch. I don't buy the club rivalry logic, Barcelona and Real Madrid absolutely despise each other but Del Bosque found the right system and managed the players perfectly. Something Eriksson, McClaren and Capello failed to do.
Well said. But this convo is about World Cup 06, and Scholes had retired at this point mate.
SeekTruth He was giving an example of Eriksson’s bad tactics. Rooney wasn’t fit enough and Michael Owen got injured. The squad simply wasn’t as strong as others like Italy, France, Brazil, Germany and co.
Well said! Poor decisions from FA with the hires.
England management from the manager to coaching staffs during 2000s until 2014 was very poor tbh, they played the most outdated football in history of mankind with the legends at their dispostal, but to be fair they didn't have any flair players during those times either. The only flair player I could think of is the man in the video, Joe Cole, but besides him?
Rooney is a striker, wouldn't call him a No.10/playmaker at the time, I really can't recall any names. They had to rely so much on long balls and set pieces that was the only thing I remember of England during those years.
Southgate has brought England players down to earth its team work now and everyone is together back then it was me me me no team work like we have now and wags and bollocks
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Terry, Ferdinand, Campbell
Scholes, Gerrard, Lampard, Beckham A.Cole
Rooney, Owen
France, Brazil, Germany and Italy were better
@@notthisprickagain8499 Yeah, we have this thing in England of thinking our players are a lot better than they are. I believe this group were exceptional, however it's players like Lucio who we overlook on other teams and they end up doing a number on our top players
@@1MHouse. It was a great team but I find it hilarious how some English are totally flabbergasted that they didn't win tourmanents during that period. There were 4 or 5 teams just as good if not a bit better.
@@notthisprickagain8499 Yeah, we do put a lot of expectation on the team. We all started singing it's coming home around the group stage haha. Just think Italy won in 2006 and haven't got close since. Took France around 20 years to win it again. Brazil haven't looked likely for 18 years. Spain didn't come close for decades. It's hard to win, the competition is fierce. It's only been 12 attempts since we last won it, with around 2 realistic teams who could've done it, not sure why it's focused on so hard as if we haven't won it for 3000 years.
notthis prickagain no way
The 2006 England squad were the perfect example that having a squad full of individually world class players does not make a world class team.
The players in this squad were capable of winning anything but when thrown together, there was just no chemistry.
How many times are they gonna go over this went too tournament’s under performed went out can blame management and Tactics but players weren’t up to it simple
I wouldn't say underperformed.
thrilla72 definitely did
thrilla72 massively underperformed
Luke Opieler due to questionable and outdated tactics.Scholes should not have retired and that England team should have played an expansive 4-3-3 with scholes as the holding midfielder and lampard and Gerard as the other two.Have Beckham on the right,Owen up top and Rooney on the left and that team would have destroyed teams.Instead they played a rigid and outdated 4-4-2 and were knocked out ultimately because of it.
Lewis Gapper the team underperformed in games cant just blame the tactics all the time a team doesn’t perform it was clear the players didn’t have the hunger to go win the World Cup by watching the games
Everyone seems to forget, 06 was also Portugal’s golden generation not just England’s golden generation. Both teams were equally as good as each other. Portugal won cause of their composure in the big moment
00-06 was probably the best team Portugal ever had. Hilarious how English fans presume their team was on a different level.
Yes, Portugal from 2000 to 2006 was great. I thought we were going to win the Euro, and then that disappointing final happened. And in the World Cup we were unlucky to meet Germany and they were quite lucky in that match.
The thing they ignore during these conversations is that a lot of other nations had world class squads at the time too, with Portugal being one of them
Joe flexing his iPhone 6s 😂
Same problem since 1966 with every other England team to play in a World Cup - players not technically good enough on the ball to keep it in the right areas of the pitch, to defend well enough and score goals.
Honestly this shouldve won the world cup is ridiculous
France: Zidane Henry Vieira Makelele Ribery Lirazaru Pires Trezeguet
Brazil: Ronaldo Ronaldinho Kaka Adriano G silva R carlos Cafu Dida Lucio
Italy: Cannavaro Materazzi Pirlo Del Piero Totti Buffon
not to mention a decent Argentina team a really good young German team,the genesis of a Spanish team that would go on to win the next 3 international tournaments they competed in,it was always going to be a tall order. It would be more apt to say they shouldve won Euro 2004.
shesbaldbutiwould I agree- but I thought after Dec 2005 after beating Argentina in that friendly post qualification that we could win the World Cup. Euro 2004 was a great team and squad and should’ve been the launch pad for the World Cup
@@abbaszaidi8371 Tbh that performance against Argentina wasnt even that good,couple crosses and some expert goal poaching from Owen glossed over a distinctly average performance,and i would say Argentina were a level below the France/Italy/Brazil teams. Euro 2004 is a bigger miss because Rooney was in great form,Scholes was still available and a lot of the bigger nations went out early,plus Euros are generally easier to win anyway.
shesbaldbutiwould Rooney and Scholes. Can’t argue there. They should’ve built the midfield around scholes, slap
bang in the centre of midfield
@@abbaszaidi8371 tbf Scholes only played out on the left for England for like the last year of his England career he played centre for England for the majortiy of his int career and never exactly pulled up trees,but he retired too early at the point of his retirement he was still someone who got forward from midfield,if he had stayed a couple years longer he couldve of been put as the deep lying playmaker and had the side built round him.
This is the way I see it as an England fan. We had an amazing team but so did many others. Brazil, Argentina, Portugal, Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany and Spain all had fantastic teams but obviously one was gonna win and others were gonna falter. That’s why 2006 was such a brilliant World Cup because there were so many legends and world class players in so many teams. We could’ve reached the final for definite but we simply took our chance and didn’t deliver whereas Portugal did. And then France knocked them out.
The biggest mistake for me for England that year was bringing Walcott and not bringing Jermain Defoe since Spurs had an amazing season that season in 5th with English players like Robinson, Carrick, Lennon and Defoe all playing superbly. The other big mistake was not bringing Scholes idk why Sven didn’t select Paul Scholes when he had another amazing season.
My starting 11 would’ve been this
Robinson
G Neville
A Cole
Ferdinand
Terry
Gerrard
Scholes
Lampard
Beckham
J Cole
Rooney
I wouldn’t have started Owen. Plus when Rooney got injured in the match vs Chelsea when Chelsea won the league, we knew we had to replace him in the line up for the first game of the World Cup. And our best options were Peter Crouch and Jermain Defoe. We started Crouch against Paraguay but I would’ve not started Owen. I would’ve started Scholes and I still don’t understand why we brung Walcott and not Scholes or Defoe. That for me is what let England down.
Regardless of what happened we did have a brilliant squad and reached the quarters when we got knocked out by Portugal. But then it all went wrong after 2006 when Sven stepped down and we had our worst ever manager in modern times, Steve McClaren...
Joe Cole was spot on with his analysis at the end,good player.
We had that silly 442 formation and also the fact that Gerrard and Lampard couldn’t play together
Great team on paper⚽️
That italy team was an unbeatable one especially that defence. Even france 2018 and argentina 2022 squad wouldn't be able to beat them. Buffon conceded 2 goals only one was own goal and 2nd was a penalty. Lippi once said that defence wouldn't let pass even their mother to the goal😂😂
Lampard, Gerrard & Ferdinand have already covered this. They said they played as individuals rather than a team, and Rio had doubts lurking into the back of his mind constantly, and Gerrard was sick of the stuff going around the international games.
England have been average to bad for over the past 20 years.
Hats off to bt for the sound quality. Sky's interviews over laptops are aweful
Why did we fail? simple we cant keep possession of the football well enough. The top players we had at that time were Brilliant individually for their clubs because they were playing with technically gifted foreign players. But when gelling them together for England it didnt work no cohesion at all.
Sven had absolutely no idea what he was doing. It's that simple, really.
A lot of Erickson's decisions were bizarre, his dodgy tactics and player selections could be infuriating at times putting Scholes on the left was one that springs to mind.
It's funny because I always thought the euro 96 squad was the best
Defo
Agree
The Braint Family yep also agree
Euro 96 squad far better
Not player for player but had a better team
People talk about golden generation but are they forgetting all the other teams.
France for example had Henry, Ribery, Zidane, makalele, veiria....
Portugal had Ronaldo, figo, deco, Carvalho, Rui Costa
Brazil had Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, kaka, Adriano, Robinho, Cafu, carlos
Spain had Torres, Villa, Alonso, Fabregas, iniesta, morientes
Shall I go on?
All the other teams were also packed with world class players let’s not forget.
Sven tried to do with Walcott what Brazil did with Ronaldo at the 1984 world cup. And even though they were both 17 a massive difference was that Ronaldo had been playing first team football and scoring goals for Cruzeiro in the Brazillian championship whereas Walcott hadn't even played for Arsenal yet.
how we / England didn't win the world cup in 2006 didn't seem right whole nation come together just like the 2018 world cup we get so close lately i just wish we could get that 2nd star in my lifetime
Theo Walcott became a "top, top player?" ummm?
There were some good sides in that world cup. England had a great squad at that world cup but so did many others. The france and Italy teams that made the final were full of superstars.
Tbh I don’t think either of these have anything to be ashamed of. Crouchy’s record for England is incredible
Or Maybe england just aren’t as good as their fans believe...
English players are very over-hyped outside the field but in the field we know the truth
@@soldierofchrist4447 Which players were overhyped? What level were they hyped to and what was their real level?
They should’ve won Euro 2004, that’s one of the greatest starting XI’s ever. 2006 WC squad was weaker and for BT to open this segment with “we should’ve won” highlights the unbelievable arrogance of the English media.
Brand Beckham's celebrity circus on tour.
That’s what it felt like 😂
on paper world cup finalists. Preparation, injuries, the premiership were the reason we failed. lucky to get to quarters to be fair
Need all the players from 2006's opinions in a full call, the atmosphere and emotion would explain everything
They should also call Ronaldo, Figo, Maniche, Deco, Rui Costa, Carvalho etc.. and ask them what they think of English pundits implying that the English team was better..
@@notthisprickagain8499 not saying Portugal weren't great, but England if that team worked could of gone thurther
Ferdinand did say,they were more interested where they were going that night,
Would people say England in that World Cup was better, the same or worse than the Italy team that won that World Cup?
Also people always talk about bringing Scholes back but SHEARER retired just before that maybe he would have wanted one last swansong like Zidane. Would have been perfect for our striker crisis.
Look at the names in the Italian,french and Brazilian squads in 2006.
It was peak individualism in the squad, no real motivation or strategy. Style over substance.
Turned off after the first 5 seconds. ''We should have won they world cup that year''.
No, we shouldn't. There were much better teams than us at the tournament.
The same discussion is happening with ex Holland, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, etc. Lots of countries believed they could win. And the truth is it could be any of them:)
Italy's team was pretty good, I think it was better than ours.
Robinson
Neville Terry Ferdinand Cole
Hargreaves Gerrard
Beckham Lampard Cole
Rooney
Should have played that team and also should have taken Defoe over Walcott
the one England team that could have done much better at a WC with better management was the 1982 team (injury hit with Keegan and Brooking) and better team selection, and the 1990 squad, that had WC winning potential if only Bobby knew how to play Barnes and Waddle together..the 2006 squad was a good team but ignored how good the other squads were in that WC...England played a weakened Portugal as well...(No Deco or Costinha)..
About six world cups occured in the delay between Jake and Crouchy's audio.
England getting eliminated whenever they face the first big opposition at WC‘s
1982: Spain and Germany two 0-0 draws were not enough in second group phase
1986: Out at the quarter finals vs. Argentina
1990: Out to Germany on penalties in semis, also losing to italy in tge match for third place
1994: -
1998: Out in R16 to Argentina on penalties
2002: Out in the quarter finals vs. Brazil
2006: Out in QF vs. Portugal
2010: Out vs. Germany R16
2014: Out in group stage after being beaten by Uruguay and Italy
2018: Out in the semis vs. Croatia, also losing third place to Belgium
2022: Out in QF vs. France
The team was simply not good enough, English hype is crazy as usual
Denzel Ndirangu in fairness this was one of our better teams, Gerrard, Lampard, Terry, Beckham, Owen, Rooney, Ferdinand, Neville, A.Cole & J.Cole in one team is pretty decent. Owen injury vs Sweden was a huge blow, Rooney had been struggling with injury prior to the tournament also. The fact Joe Cole was the most effective midfielders in that 4 suggests that the formation or style of play was off & we did lack a world class keeper like Seaman or Banks. It’s a better team on paper than England 2018 who got to the semis... I think Management, culture, egos & injuries are to blame for 2006.
Lack of squad depth too.
Denzel Ndirangu and the word world class drives me up the wall
Exactly!!! Very few English players would have made the French or Italian squads from 2006
Clee King of the Hill I’m English and couldn’t get the hype about us in 2018. Lost three games at that tournament. And beat nobody at all of note
Lots of great teams throughout that era 2002 to 2006, brazil, Spain, Germany, Italy, France, Portugal, Argentina. Wrong manger too and too many big players never showed up.
Best squad since 1966? Wasn't even as good as the squad in the mid 90s mate
England's fortunes dissolved when Owen got injured against the Swedes
We have players that individually are brilliant but as a team we are obviously lacking, also I don’t think the expectations put in them by the fans and the press don’t help, going into the 2018 World Cup people didn’t have those same expectations and look how well they did.
Pretty simple from 1998-2010 England's golden generation played golden generations that were better.
Argentina (1998), Brazil (2002), Portugal (2004), Portugal (2006), Germany (2010). Who exactly were they meant to beat from those teams?
Abdi Ahmed even if they beat Portugal in 2006 they still would of ended up running into France or Italy anyway
No chance we should have won this one! The big missed opportunity was 2002. Us and Brazil were the best teams left in the tournament, if we could just have found a way past them we would have played Turkey in the semis and a distinctly average Germany in the final. Should have won that one. By 2006 other teams had gone past us.
If I was England manager at that time I'd get rid of a couple of superstars like really mix the squad up and give a chance to great players that play for midtable clubs. I'd not play Gerrard and Lampard together that's for sure. One of them would be on the bench.
England didn't too badly in that tournament ended top of the top got into the quarters that is not too bad all things considered.
MrGoalissimo their path to the quarters wasn’t awe inspiring and they usually get to the quarters because there’s at least 7 international teams in the tournament who are better than they are.
If that team had to play Italy and Uruguay in the first round like in 2014, they would have been finishing 3rd or 4th
On paper, they had a great team based on how good the players were on individual merits. From how well they were doing at club level. After seeing and hearing players' verdicts and most recently, Sven's, on Sky Sports. It's all down to a collection of errors that made England doomed for failure from the offset. Which is why they didn't deliver on the pitch.
Not playing to style or a system that complemented the players and the manager. Not playing to our strengths and utilisation of the squad. Examples being playing Paul Scholes out wide, and not taking the well-proven Jermaine Defoe to the 2006 World Cup. What also didn't help, was the internal rivalries from the players in the England squad with their club 'cliques' too. Like the Man United, Liverpool and Chelsea tables, for example. Who were more unconsciously interested in the clubs they played for than their National side.
Duh, because Real Madrid and Barca players of Spain 2010 squad get along at club level?
And Germany's Bayern and Dortmund players at WC 2014?
Unf, aside from 1966, England hasn't produced a Team of World Class players. That's it! Excuses.
Italy were different class from england
They also had a much easier group and path to the semi final, which was the first time they faced a good team. Even then, they massively struggled against the footballing superpower of Australia in the second round.
The interview is actually 5mins long, the other 5mins is waiting for them to talk.
Ultimately has to be shown as a failure of management , in creating a cohesive system that would allow us to utilise the strengths of our world class midfield, as well as creating a comfortable and unified dressing room. If the players are comfortable on the pitch , relationships improve off the pitch. Also , criminal that scholes was left out , his passing ability and temperament would have acted as the midfield heartbeat of the team that the naturally attacking minded gerrard and lampard couldn’t quite do. Overall though , a great team needs a great manager , and sadly Sven isn’t a World Cup winning manager
I think the only chance england had of winning in the 2000s was euro 2004. There were better teams than england in 2006 as to why we were knocked out in the quarters but I think if we won the shootout in euro 2004 v Portugal I think england would of went on to win that tournament and in the 90s when we lost twice to Germany on pens in 90 and 96 we just never had the luck then. Hopefully we can win the euros next year or win a tournament soon as it is frustrating at times to be an england fan lol
Well, at least we got to an actual Euros final in the end.
Knock out in the quarter finals 2022.
Crouch was one of the few players who performed in 2006
No great mystery to this. Beckham, Lampard and Rooney were passengers on the pitch. Clueless Sven picked them on reputation alone, and England paid the price.
Rooney Beckham and lamps, passengers???🤦🏼♂️ picked on reputation😆 they were correctly selected as they were the best in there positions in their league. That's how it works.
MON5TA MMA! rooney was out of form that tournament
Shouldve benched one of gerrard or lampard. This was the biggest mistake playing them both in same time.
The issue wasn't calling up Theo, it was then not even playing him
England will never be good enough, and it goes down to mentality, even England's best players crumble in the white shirt, they never truly show their club form in an England team, the mix always looks decent, but apart from the usual injuries etc, they just can't get it over the line. They don't ever appear to have a flexibility about their system.
British football media over rating average footballers ! That's what was wrong in 2006 . The trend of over rating average footballers continues in 2020
Did sven ever play another formation with England than 442?
I honestly beleive if a better manager I.e sir alex was manager in 2002 and 2006 we would have won both. I grew up hating the bloke but no denying his man management which is what we needed more than anything.
Humphreys needed to steer this a bit more to properly cover it all off.
The management was poor, the right players weren't in the squad that were left out of the main team. There was always a way to play Scholes Lampard and Gerrard. Lampard in front of Gerrard and Scholes
They probably didn't know how good they were at that time and presumed there will be better players coming through and they would have another shot in 10 when in reality it was the same team with most of those world class players around 30 years old or above and the same reserves in some of their places. Between Rooney and wilshere there was no one. The big one was the wolly who started playing a prime stevie g out wide in his peak. At Euro 08 we could have had James, Richards, Rio, Terry, Cole, Carrick, Lampard, Gerrard, Rooney, Cole, Walcott. With beckham, Defoe, Crouch, Hargreaves, lennon, on bench.
We know Theo was going to be top top class player...
Lmao
England as a team will never play like any other squad everyone wants to be the hero
Quite simply some of the players like the keeper, defenders were piss poor for international standards, and we had no proper left side! And we didn’t have a flair/Gazza sort of player
People need to stop going on about 2006. We had a good side but really 2002 was our chance.
Euro 2004 was the only major tournament England should've won. No one was beating Brazil in 2002
Poor Joe. He doesn't be well. "We just wasn't, was we?"😂😂😂
When i watch this, i sometimes wonder if english football fans actually watch anything other then the premier league. Do they watch the Bundesliga, Serie A or La Liga? It always seems like "we have the best league, so our national team who all play there, should win the World Cup." It makes them very unlikeable.
That midfield was insane. And that’s with no scholes. The talent was there but it was still going to be a challenge. It was by far a forgone conclusion. Owen and Rooney injured really hurt (no pun intended). Also, goal keeper was weak in comparison to Buffon. I don’t know how Defoe doesn’t get picked. They still might have pulled it off had Ronaldo not been a ________ (fill in your choice of words)
I gave up with England at 2010
Whenever the match started at 1930 hours
2008 for me
That was the year football broke me as a man
I agree Defoe should have gone ahead of Walcott. I rate both players but Walcott was not ready at that time.
But let's get real, Defoe was not gonna win the world cup over Brazil, France, Italy and Spain etc.
How many of that squad can get in the team over Zidane, Henry, Makelele, Ribery, Vieira etc.
Or Buffon, Cannavaro, Materrazi, Pirlo, Gattuso, Camournesi, Totti, Toni, Del Piero etc.
Biggest joke was 2018 and the huge success of Southgate ...they just beat Tunisia , lost to Belgium , drew fo Columbia (penalty) , beat Sweden and lost to Croatia and Belgium again - came back as national heroes 😂😂😂