I was at the Northern Ireland v England game at Windsor park. I remember it was played in heavy rain and given the result I wish id stayed at home lol but was great to see Kevin Keegan playing. Northern Ireland actually had a decent team from 1979-1986 and we ended up finishing second behind England in this group.

Loved how back then at away games the commentator sounded like he was on the phone,

Brian Moore- what a commentator!

Loved both kits the best ever England have had.

15:15 Bulgaria wasn’t that shut behind the Iron Curtain as some might have thought. Pink Floyd was on the radio, Fawlty Towers on the telly, I watched Forest winning the European Cup, Keegan’s autobiography: ‘Football and I’, was serialised in one of our weekly magazines. Then they came to Sofia. We were looking up to England, they were everything that was right, the whole better world! And now, how times have changed

Keegan was certainly the man at this time.....king Kev..

The last game v rep of Ireland my first ever game as an 11 year old 😀

For me England was a good team with many great players : Keegan, Clemence,Neal, Kennedy,Hoddle,Brooking and others. In Italy a no good Euro, but a good World Cup in 1982 ( some great games and no losers). From Italy

This is a great channel.

Kevin Keegan, best of England😀⚽️

Keegan lovely amazing

Brooking and Keegan were the main men for England in this era. If they'd both been fit for the 1982 World Cup I think England might have come close to winning it.

People always says it was such a shame Best never played in a finals. You could say the same thing about Brady. Tragic. 10 years later, he gets sent off in the final game for Ireland vs Bulgaria, and misses Euro 88...

Being a spurs fan pains me to say it but Trevor brooking was a fantastic corner taker. Overpaid pricks nowadays want to watch brooking here

Hoddle such an artist

Brookings passes and corners were excellent.

England would have done well in Argentina. They were a tough nut to crack in those days under Greenwood. The 1978-80 side was the best in my lifetime.

Great work uploader! Really well done. Like the M83 soundtrack too.

Simonsen went in to be a legend at Charlton Athletic,English hooligans disgraced the nation at the Euros but six years later the Danes had a great team (and Hummel kit) at Mexico 86.

Phil Neil nearly done a brooking before brooking with that goal against Denmark

Memories from my youth

10:40 Love it how Keagan runs behind the photographers, must have really annoyed them. 😄

Good to see.....although ALL qualification matches for England is a little inaccurate.....the Northern Ireland 1 England 5 match was missing!

All i want for christmas is an 1982 Admiral England home kit

Tbf that was a fairly easy group to get out of. Although the Danes finished bottom,you could see even then they had the basis of a good team,and so it proved a few years later.

Thanks for posting!

Wasn't Pat Jennings the #1 keeper in the world at the time? Kevin Keegan was a beast.

Latchford walks on water👊🏼💙

Podrías hacer la fase final de la euro 80 igual que estás haciendo del mundial 82, o sea los partidos , por ejemplo de Inglaterra , los que jugó en esa fase final Bélgica , Italia y España Un saludo y muchas gracias por el gran trabajo que realizas en ambos canales

To win at football, you need a great player in your side - and that is something that England have lacked for the last 50 years. France - a similar country to England in terms of population - has won many trophies in recent years, but each time they've won, it was with a great player: European Championship 1984 (Michel Platini), World Cup 1998 (Zinadine Zidane), World Cup 2018 (Kylian Mbappe).

Listen to Wembley in those days.

Keegan the best English player bar none. How the fk did we not win anything with this team of players? Criminal.

This was a great England offense.. Keegan and Brooking were beasts..

Keegan 👌

I agree. Keegan was a crack.

Kevin Keegan didn't half score some goals .👌👌👌

England were pretty rubbish at the beginning of this campaign with bad defending and seemingly only being able to score from set pieces, but improved a lot from the half way point and towards the end and became a lot more of a team. This side peaked in early 1980 when they didn't just beat but took apart Spain in the Nou Camp 2-0. Then Trevor Francis got injured and was out of Euro 80. Plus the manager didn't pick Laurie Cunningham or Glenn Hoddle. Oh well. Great memories though. Oh, one other thing - was it really that hard to find a way to get Terry McDermott in the team regularly? The thought of him playing in that Euro 80 match against Italy the way did for Liverpool at that time, I'd have loved to have seen that (I say, 42 years later lol).

Don’t understand why we have to suffer foreign commentary haven’t got an effing clue what they say. This is about England; and I want Motty or Brian Moore (the voice of football).

Ireland were a great team at landsdowne Road not many teams won there and that includes England France Holland and Portugal in massive games not friendlies

The days when Turkey, Bulgaria were shite and England not much better.

Why bother with a keeper , Shilton can't sort his own Bollocks out .

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Good England side, but performed poorly in the finals

End of the lost decade for England. Never developed the national team tactically and so far behind other nations at this time. Really have to blame the FA. Talent was there as evidenced by the club successes but tactical naivety and poor selection policy hampered progress. I really think Clough or Robson could have done something special with the talent available. Much better tactically than Revie and Greenwood. Happier innocent days. Great perms.......

The worst qualifications in the past for Bulgaria.

I prefer to Germany!!! England only have good singers!!! England is no more than these musicians mainly from the 1980`s!

Blimey Clemence looks rubbish now...I didn't think so at the time but he is all over the place!