Me - a 15 year old portuguese ate the time - i remember thinking who the fuck was this Diego armando hargreaves believe me

Owen talked about it post career. He was playing at Bayern at the time and they didnt rate him simply because he wasnt playing in the epl, ironically like you stated, Englands best player that tournament was a player who didnt even play in the English league

Playing in the Bundesliga and being Canadian didnt help at all for whatever reason.

Dude was probably the best defensive midfielder in the world at the time United won the Champions League/Prem double. Him, Carrick and Scholes were unbelievable together. And England could have used all three. 😂🤦‍♂️

@@megazard5249 yeah if we had a decent manager! Unfortunately pretty sure Sven drove Scholes to early retirement after the 2002 World Cup..playing him as a left winger!

Alan Hansen summed it up you look at line up you look at the players its miles better than the team that were beaten in the Euro 2020 final by Italy and you have ask yourself why were they so poor throughout this tournament right from the first game against Paraguay. Paraguay fell flat after a bright first half, Trinidad and Tobago lucky to win 2 late goals in the final 7 minutes saved them, Sweden when Joe Cole scored that screamer they were weak on set plays and got found out and then Ecuador they played 4-5-1 which everyone questioned and they never looked comfortable at all and Sven never changed it up.

Against Ecuador they scored from a lucky free kick that could've easily not went in.

@@classicsportclassictiyl8547 they just crumbled under the pressure. As always. And people wonder why southgate plays cautiously

@@classicsportclassictiyl8547 Because they were not passing they were always hoofing it.

Names that do well when they're surrounded by foreigners. Not so talented when they're all together, though. The epl hype machine makes people think these guys are better than they are, but they just can't play football like the serious nations can.

Portugal were lucky as fuck to win this match, as it turned out they just fudged their way through so that's a mad statement.

@@nigelbenn4642 you lost to us in 3 put 4 major tournaments. You weren't as good. Now go cry

@@pmaigotthat7211 Might go buy a North Macedonia shirt today, no one knows who they are so should be fairly cheap to buy.

Same thing happened when they lost in the Euro final to Italy.

@@dararohan1209 nah italy outplayed us, we were lucky to get to pens. I'm proud of the lads for getting to the final but I'm gonna be honest, Italy were far better. If chiesa never went off it would've been game over long before pens.

Not saying they would've won but it's the intention, Italy's subs didn't have much impact other than Cristante winning the header against Trippier at the front post, but the intention was there from Mancini and Italy deserved the win 100% but England were too defensive.

Honestly he had Defoe who was a very good striker, and Darren Bent who was the highest scoring Englishman in the PL that season, yet Sven went "I know I will take Theo Walcott, who is 17 and has never played a single minute of PL football in his entire life". Later on he said his biggest regret at that WC was not having a mental coach, well judging by some of his decisions, he was most likely the mental coach himself

Sven should have been sacked after Euro 2004 but because the FA had stupidly panicked giving him a more expensive contract after fearing Chelsea wanted him, they couldn't afford to sack him for another few years. Only good thing Sven really ever did for England was the 5-1 win over Germany and then beating Argentina at the 2002 World Cup. After that he was a let down who overstayed his welcome and wasted what was our strongest generation of players in decades.

It was stupid ridiculous not taking Jermaine Defoe he definitely should of gone instead of Walcott.

Team full of top big name players couldn’t gell together as a team.

I could of done a better job than Sven.

Exactly, I would have picked Bent or Defoe over Walcott I know Sven made some wild decisions but people disrespect him too much. Yes, he should have done much better with the England team he had at his disposal, but before he got the England job he had a good reputation

@@rohithraman6488 He got the England job because he was very good at Lazio he got them only their second ever scudetto Serie A title in 1999/2000 pulling back an 8 point deficit on Juventus to do it. Eriksson never built on the 5-1 demolition of Germany he played Paul Scholes out of position on the left of midfield to accommodate Lampard and Gerrard in the middle who never gelled at all. Also I wouldn't have picked Crouch either it took him 4 months to get his first goal for Liverpool that season after he moved from relegated Southampton.

I think Rooney and Owen should have gone to the tournament, but not as our main strikers. He should have taken Rooney, Owen, Defoe and Bent, and only used Rooney and Owen as options to bring off the bench if we needed a goal. Starting Rooney as a lone striker, when he was unfit was madness. Sven also managed Owen poorly by playing him in all 3 of the group games. We'd already qualified for the next round by the time we'd played our final group game, and only needed a draw to top the group, so surely it would have made sense to have rested Owen and then bring him back in for the knockout games. I think playing too many games within a short space of time is what led to his injury. Another big issue was Lampard and Gerrard playing together. Even in a midfield 3 it didn't work, because they were too similar. We needed a playmaker and Scholes would have been perfect for that role, but of course Sven misused him playing him on the left, and he retired before the 06 world cup. Carrick was the next best thing, he could have filled that role. A midfield 3 of Carrick, Hargreaves and one of either Gerrard or Lampard was the way to go at this tournament, with either Defoe or Bent up front. Then you have the option of Rooney and Owen coming off the bench if needed.

Rooney was unfit, Owen was consistently injured between 2002-2006 and his knee exploded in the tournament, Bent and Defoe were fit and surely should have been available for selection. Paul Scholes should have been name number 1 on the team sheet - Eriksson had no balls to stand down Lampard & Gerrard.

@@lurker-mq4fp Scholes retired to concentrate on his United career

And absolutely nothing has changed..

Happens over time

I could of done a better job than Sven goran erikcson

And the obsession of people like you with England is just pitiful 🤣

Go back and watch the 1998 World Cup games with England - they got outplayed by both Argentina and Romania

@@Chris-si4ox By Romania, yes..Argentina, it was even until the sending off of Beckham..

@@kailashpatel1706England were still the better team even after the sending off

He said disabled people did wrong in a previous life. Even if you believe it you don’t tell anyone that. He’s not a nice bloke

@@andrewyoung1652 Not really..you try to play against 10 men parked on the box line, hard..it was an even contest though until last 10 mins of first half, Argentina started to pick it up...

We have got better. We have won two penalty shootouts since 2018. World Cup 2018 in the quater-finals and in the 3rd place play off in Nations League in 2019.

@@carlybishop6160 2 out of 9 is still pretty bad (I mean Spain 1996 - which was v lucky indeed to go to pens - and Colombia 2018; the Switzerland 3rd place match for Nations League doesn't really count)

@@vampireducks1622 I count it as 2 out of 3. There has been a big shift in the last 5 years. Gareth Southgate has taken a new approach to penalties and even has got psychologists, etc involved

@@carlybishop6160 Fair enough

@@vampireducks1622 It's 3 out of 10. And it's not that England are bad at pens. Netherlands, Italy & Spain have exited a lot of tournaments on pens as well. If you look at the ones England lost they were all close shootouts including both Portugal shootouts where England were even handicapped for them not having Rooney in either and not having MichaelOwen as well in 2006. There was still never any 3-0 shootout losses or anything like that, the opposition always had to take at least 5 to win where as England won in just 4 vs Spain...(It was 1 lost 1 won at that point) and England had some kind of advantage in EVERY shootout before they eventually lost it so I don't get why people make out England are so bad at them?? The shootout vs Germany in Euro96 was 1of the most high quality shootouts ever in a major tournament for both teams so no one then could claim England weren't good at pens, it must've been harshly spoken about after this 2nd Portugal shootout. The first was in Portugal and again England on the whole did well on the beach pitch 6-5 it finished and England technically won before pens anyway but for UrsMeier. AshleyCole should've gone before Carragher in 2006. You mentioned Spain 1996 was lucky to go to pens. You could literally say the same thing about all of the shootouts England lost that the opposition were lucky to play pens or lucky to play an hour or more with a numerical advantage I.e Argentina 1998 75 mins England had 10 men. 2006 60minutes England had 10 men. 2004 England scored legit winning goal on 90mins disallowed etc...1996 vs Germany Anderton hit the post almost open goal in golden goal extra-time then Gascoigne was a centimetre away from tap in to win the game.

Rooney was always found out at Tournaments. He is great against San Marino but in the big matches he disappeared.

@@lurker-mq4fp He lived off Euro 2004 no doubt. Was injured in 06 and no more hopeless than any of the other players in 2010, 2012 or 2014! The only English player to have a great tournament in my lifetime (pre Southgate) was Lineker in 86 and 90..of course Gascgoine in 90 and 96 along with Shearer. Owen in 98, but we were knocked out after only a few games. Beckham, Gerrard, Lampard, Scholes never delivered through a combination of reasons including bad tactics, injuries and pure over hype!

Exactly, 38 goals and 13 assists in 60 England games for Harry Kane In major tournaments - 10 goals

@@its_rick_james_bich2575 Don't get me started about the inability of England managers unable to choose between Scholes, Gerrard, and Lampard!

Rooney was rushed back at both the 2006 and 2010 World Cups, Harry Kane has still won nothing in his career. Know who I’d rather have

What did they say?

yes and the funniest thing they were like the fifth best squad in that tournament names and individual quality wise... that's how good the 06 WC was and why the english media was crazy. While they did have a better team individually than Portugal although worse collectively if they passed Brazil and France both had better individual talent and so did Italy and Argentina overall. So all that golden generation talk was crazy, they may be great but by the standards of that era it wasn't golden at all

Spot on they didn’t

The difference being this generation right now actually play as a team because of southgate. He doesn't put a best XI in a side anyway cos players like sterling were in poor form before the tournament. Clearly the mentality must change if we want to win qatar. We embrace failure mate that's why we've failed for so long. Other times we haven't played as a team either

I’m sorry but shouldn’t Croatia and Germany count as ‘top teams’? And people should stop being mean about Denmark, should never underestimate them.

@@junnaka9326 exactly people look at denmark and think "yeah they're shit" but when you look at their players you can see they're a good team, I mean they only got beat by 1 goal by us and defended really well.

Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark and Italy are all top teams that we never lost to in games. Obviously we lost to Italy on pens, but not in the game itself. I think you are incredibly disrespectful to the nations we played.

@@JW-zr4juThey can't come to terms with the fact that england are better. Whenever we won during the tournament they said, "oh that team was poor" "that team is bad" but were singing their praises before the game. Everyone hates us and I get we have history and arrogant racist fans but every country in the world is bound to. Exactly we have to think about how poor we were against Italy yet we still took them all the way. I hope southgate is the one.

Ikr crazy. For 15 years thought it was the stamp. But never a red card imo

@@JJJJ-fi9dg The stamp is a red though.

Your right,never thought it was for the push , I love going online to watch classic International games again , got a difficult one to call, in france 98 van da sar brought down Ortega in the box , the reff ran over as if he was going to award a penalty to argentina, then Ortega head butts van da sar while standing up , THE REFF GIVES ORTEGA A RED CARD ,AND NO PENALTY AGAINST HOLLAND ,try figuring that one out ,😂.

If the red was for the stamp then fair enough but yeah it seemed like the ref only reacted after Wayne pushed Ronaldo, and to give a red for that is insanely harsh.

Euro 2004 as well.

Nah England just sucks

@@tcbbctagain572 Yeah probably

And they play as a team unlike our 'golden generation'

Golden Generation actually tried to win matches instead of defending for 70 odd mins. And never using any of their firepower

@@jeffrejr1 This England team would get destroyed by Brazil and Portugal.

As much as I hate you English clowns, this so-called ''golden generation'' would wipe the floor with the current England team who only went far in tournaments because they had easy draws and it is a weak era for international football.

@@handzar6402 Yh well a weak era isn’t their fault. It’s what the era is at the moment, get over it. I’m sorry but if England won the World Cup we’ll be having negative people being like “Yh well they won it in a poor era for international football”. who cares. Always gotta play down everything England does even if it’s something good.

But he’s right though. You can see the ref wasn’t interested in giving a card until Rooney pushes ronaldo. And when he does the ref immediately gives him a red. If he was going to card Rooney for the stamp (which I agree in itself was deliberate and a red card) what was he waiting for? Bad refereeing all round for missing the stamp and then actually sending him off for nothing.

Definite red, but in today's game with VAR Ronaldo also gets sent off before kick off probably.

@@josephcole8046 how tf is it a red are you blind

@@JJJJ-fi9dg Which one? Rooney's obviously was. The Ronaldo one would probably depend on who's doing VAR and if the ref saw it.

Then why wink? If it was a clear red there's no doubt and no need to wink

@@nigelbenn4642 wtf are you on. You genuinely think a wink means it wasnt a red? HE STOMPED ON HIS NUTS NIGEL

I'd put one on him if it was me!

@Jason Prendergast 😂😂😂

@Jason Prendergast keep lifting bro😂😂😂

Oh fuck!

@@Cleisthenes607 depression is real

How did that "big one" end?

Wouldn't go that far talking about Beckham.

Rooney sent off ...owen stretchered off....Beckham limped off ( cramp). Lampard Gerrard couldnt hit a barn door from 50 yards...these are the post match words of sven errikson

Ok 1) you need to get new ears cuz he was talking about England not Portugal 2) cry some more little baby your salt is hilarious 😂🤣

Yeah you were really cheated...... england just sucks lol

@@hauuah3000 Everything you say is worthless. I even put the time when he said it, he said it clearly "Portugal who I don't think have any chance of winning the world cup".....and you call me deaf 🤣

@@cddb5408 well you should go back 5 seconds earlier cuz it was very clear that he was talking about England and how their tactics weren't working from the first game. But by any means pls keep crying its hilarious. Being called the weakest team in the world cup semis literally means nothing, and that was proven by the fact that Portugal completely outplayed France in the semi and, France only won cuz of a questionable penalty.

@@cddb5408 but either way you're both wrong. France was the weakest team out of the 4. They only got to the final cuz of zidane alone. Without him they flopped hard in the 2 following tournaments But well you know, everything you say it's worthless

Lmao yeah the stamp wasn’t the issue here it was the wink😂. Learn to take pens in pressure situations and stop crying

England will blame anything and anyone apart from themselves. What on gods earth made rooney stamp on that player? Ronaldo talking to the ref is completely normal, he's allowed to tell the ref that's a card. Rooney shoving Ronaldo again makes no sense, let's be real Rooney lost his cool. The guys in the pundit studio are pathetic trying to blame Ronaldo for all that.