It looks as nice now as I remember it- brilliantly sunny day in a nice little stadium, the atmosphere relaxed in a cheerful way. It always makes it nicer for me to watch a game played in full sun, rather than in shadow from a gigantic stand or in the fading light of late afternoon. As an England supporter the performance was pleasing, plenty of confident play and players striving to create chances, good work from a number of players (Campbell, Le Saux, Anderton, Ince, Shearer and Sheringham most notably in this highlights clip) and that memorable goal from Scholes, getting a good result to start the competition.

Why

Lol you have comment like this on other classic football match. So on which year you really want to go back?

time machine

Me too

I had just turned 18, what a time to be a utd supporter

England were quite lucky, they didn't have a good game.

@J B wellcome to tunisia ❤️

@J B are you english man?

Arguably at fault for the first goal...

@@s1monz arguably stopped another 6 ffs 🤦🏾‍♂️

Without him it'd have been 4-0 at least.

How I wish I could go back to 1998

France : zidane, brazil : ronaldo, italy : vieri, england : scholes, holland : bergkamp, spain : raul, argentina : batistuta, german : matthaus 😍😍😍😍

Me too

The best World Cup to date in my humble opinion.

WW Cup ??

For good reason he had a phenomenal game.

Agree, Scholes at his best

Yes...Hoddle is the only England manager that utilized scholes talent...

Southgate does now

Anderton out of position at RWB

Didn’t matter re: Anderton - he was flexible enough to adapt to that role and gave England the option of someone who could cut inside and provide an extra creative force once they got men forward. It paid off handsomely against Colombia with the opening goal.

Where was Le Tissier?

@ Wasn't selected.

I think he nailed it with Bergkamp goal against Argentina at this tournament. Legend.

@@leighfletcher7675 Agreed. That was one hell of a commentary from our Barry 😃

Superb commentator. Yet the bbc binned him off in favour of the nauseating John Motson

@@alterbridgegod I did prefer Barry Davies, but quite liked Motson too. The commentator the BBC has used for most of the last decade (can't remember his name) is dreadful in my opinion, absolutely intolerable to listen to.

american here, i think the international games today are better because of messi and ronaldo, the two best players of all time

@@littlebiits4216 are you kidding? because your comment, everybody around the world knows american people dosn't know about football, it's football not fucking soccer

well I have watched soccer since the FIFA World Cup in Russia 2018 but i played FIFA the video game since 2015 after the FIFA World Cup in Brazil in 2014 so I know quite a bit about soccer

@@littlebiits4216 well, yo don't know more than me, I have been watching football since the world cup usa 1994, I grew up playing the legendary game international super star soccer from snes, I saw football players who deserves be called legends, for example: romario,bebeto,roberto baggio,paolo maldini,zinedine zidane,henry,denis bergkamp,david beckhamp,ronaldo nazario R9 the brazilian phenom,alessandro del piero,francesco totti,thierry henry,batistuta,cannigia,maradona,paul scholes,paul gascoigne,erick cantona,georghe haggi,davor suker, the list is very long about all football legends that I know, football wasn't born with messy & cristiano.

@@camusdonovan1934 hes probably a 6 year old

Scholes finishing in this wc was shocking Easy chances missed in this game and crucially he missed an absolute sitter when England were 2-1 up against Argentina , if he buried that as he should have England would surely have gone through

@@twright1983 the sitter was harder than u thought

TITUS 3V5 it was a really bad miss

Missed two easy chances. Overrated

I've only watched 3 mins and Scholes has already missed 2 chances unmarked from 6 yards out 🤣

Agreed

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Agree . It was a great England team. Excellent work by Glenn huddle

Batty was rubbish tbf

I think the team was great having this balance in the midfield, if you continued with players like this the next 10 years, now the problem is Beckham the next couple of years you see beckham come into this team and totally change the dynamics of the team to a crossing and get rid of the ball team when the whole world was going hold the ball game, I seriously think Beckham coming in was bad for this teams future 😊

Haha. I was in high school as well. I was 13. Only caught the last 5 minutes cos school was in session when the match started. Supported England all the way. Really gutted to see them lose to Argentina. England could have gone all the way and won France 98 if they got past Argentina.

This wasnt even close to his peak either! If Hoddle stayed manager he said team would be built around him, he was much better then gazza

You mean Barry?

@Anthony Mcken that's been the nature of our national teams for decades , we usually give the big teams a hard time ( except for the belgium game in wc 2018 lol ) , yet we underperform against smaller teams.

England team is always loved by tunisian cultivated anglophones .. Your team is my favorite since euro 96 in wembley stadium :)

@@mohamedben7708 euro 96 was amazing the atmosphere whenever England played. English fans are the best

I was a kid in this era who later stopped being fan around early 2000s... yes this era from euro 96 I got interested in football

Yes, England's future looks very promising.

Yes same memory also, we briefly watched part of it in assembly

This was 1998.

Will Scarlett yeah but if he goes back to 1996 he gets to experience 1996 AND 1998. 😉

Make your mind up, you said 98 at the start of the thread.

I think it was Group D with Spain, Nigeria, Bulgaria and Paraguay.

@13 90 cheers x

Anderton = hoodle

Anderton played better as a wing-back than Becks. Becks was better in the middle.

@@psifla99 I didn't know Anderton could also play wing-back...why did Man U want him in the '90s?? Him and Beckham would be fighting over the same spot (just like in WC 98 here)

Anderton was playing at an excellent level during 96-98 before injuries got him. Fergie wanted him. Anderton was also a fantastic athlete, a cross-country fanatic and an excellent footballer to boot - perfect for the wing-back role.

@@leemcb7297 Anderton was a winger through and through, whether as wing-back or a more dedicated attacking position, whereas Beckham I would never call a winger, more a right-sided midfielder.

I would have said that Parlour and Ince were rather similar players, rather than ones which would compliment one another. I always liked Pearce, but he was 36 by this time, long in the tooth for a full back.

Le Saux who was picked instead of Pearce assisted the first England goal of this WC. He made error with Petrescu's winner in the next game though. In regards to your Parlour comment. It's a bit like why wasn't Beckham & Scholes & maybe even Butt selected for Euro96 considering they'd just won the double? It wouldn't happen these days after players have contributed to seasons like that for their club they'd always be picked.

Mcmanaman was better at dribbling and running at teams, but Andertons passing and crossing was better. Was also better defensively which helped in his wingback role.

Learn how spaces work pal.

So you saying you are better than them

@@MrKAKARONALDOMESSI so you have to better than the person you are criticising, to make a comment? so no one can criticise a politician, or leader, a millionaire? Only a black man would make such a comment.

Scholes carried England until Gerrard and Lampard came along, Scholes moved out left when he should've been playmaker.

Yep, I would have loved to see Gazza at a world cup again, he was a class apart from anyone else in the side, even Beckham looked quite ordinary next to him. Unfortunately he reputedly let himself go in 97/98 compared to the good shape he had got into earlier in the WC qualifying games, and Hoddle felt he couldn't justify taking him like that. I imagine Gazza would have pushed himself to be in better condition come the actual tournament, but Hoddle wasn't going to wait and see with England's most unreliable player of the period, he had to choose the squad. I do think Gazza would have been great if he had been selected, though.

@@danyoutube7491 Hoddle picked gascoigne in the provisional squad, he started 2 out of the 3 warm up games, and came on as a sub for 30 min. Plenty of time for Hoddle to establish if he was fit or not.

@D Wr 2018 entertaining but not enough quality. 2006 last in my opinion.

2014 has been the best WC in this century since then and the best group stage WC ever.

@@igorstark9514 yep 2014 group stages were just brilliant