I agree, they also gaslighted football fans into abusing Taylor. Same is happening to Southgate right now, despite him being the most successful England coach since Sir Alf Ramsey. In fact, Southgate is getting it worse because social media didn’t exist back when Taylor was in charge. It’s just another avenue that simpletons use to spread hate and abuse.

The tabloid press in the 90’s and 00’s before the phone hacking scandal were a disgrace.

I thought the turnip was one of the greatest headlines in sport

Agree and there worse now.

I know he was a human being and probably a decent man but his selections were poor especially donkey palmer tactics were out of his depth and he surrounded himself with clueless coaches like yes man Neal and Mcmenemy. The players were also a disgrace which didn’t help him. But what a wonderful job he did at Watford

It’s the same story time and time again. Just different names

@@stewartgrindlay9760 i don’t think they’re quite as bad these days.

At 49:10 you can see a UDA/UFF banner the fans are holding, around the same time the UDA had just shot up a pub in Derry killing 8 people & the year shot up a Bookmakers killing 5, these are the same neo-Nazi fans who would riot in Dublin about 2 years later.

It was obvious he was going to do it because you could see the space towards the right of him

@@waynelittle646 plus koeman was superb at freekicks

I’ve watched it back and can’t believe his positioning, it was that bad. He just as well join the wall and leave to goal empty. Oh sorry he did.

Yes, I remember watching it at the time and I couldn't believe that Seaman was stood so far to the other side of the goal. Koeman saw it, like we all did, and the rest is history. When ever I think of Seaman, I always think of this incident - and there were many more mistakes he made over the years. I never understood the hype. He was very overrated.

Paul Gascogne is a football Genius.

The more I see clips of David seaman the more I can’t understand how this man was a goalkeeper for England for so long

The Ronaldinho free kick aswell!! 😂😂

Good point. One I overlooked

Seaman was tosh. Brazil 🇧🇷 the freekick. Never forgave him. Robbed a living

Seaman was more focused on his fucking ponytail.

I’d have given Bobby Robson another World Cup, having come so close in 1990. FA should have waited until the end of the tournament, before deciding whether to make a change.

This is a real, real test 😄

Still are

With Bradley Walsh as Phil Neale, and Lawrey McMenemy as second-hand used car salesman, Lonnie Erkart!

@@AndyPass1976 I got one thing to say to you Hyundai lol

@@billybutcher4951 Three cheers for Ramirez!

@@AndyPass1976 I’m gonna rewatch it now lol

@@billybutcher4951lol 😂

It got to the semis of the euros 2 years later with a couple of changes so wasnt all that bad he wasnt harse enough of gazza he needed him fit and he wasn't

@@imemine8605 it also got to the semi finals of the previous World Cup. Graham Taylor prematurely threw away some his ‘tools’ in Chris Waddle and Peter Beardsley.

@@Inglese001 after watching the documentary, i hadnt when i wrote the comment i still don't understand why it was only top of the group that qualifield

@@imemine8605 I think it was top two that qualified. In this case, Norway and Holland.

@@imemine8605 yeah, immediately before and after Graham’s tenure, England reach semifinals, which is pretty damning evidence that he was the problem. A decent man nonetheless.

He picked the team, Carlton Palmer above all the talent that was about at the time, you can see him losing it with him but he kept picking him!

​​​@@howwwwwyyyyy No..action was needed from the bench in all these games shown here..mcmenemy looks more foolish than Taylor..stop trying to be contrary. Xx

​@@hensmithers9687like a pair of parrots ,no input just repeating what Taylor said

Who appointed them?

Mcmenemy the biggest clown going

They didn't fire him, he'd already announced he was leaving for PSV before the World cup.

@@lucasm3879 FA told Bobby they wouldn’t renew his contract after the World Cup. He knew he was going, so looked for another job. Bobby Robson would never have left the England job for PSV, if it had been down to him.

@@Inglese001 Yeah you're probably right mate, I was just pointing out he wasn't actually fired. It was a similar thing with Terry Venables leaving before Euro '96.

Scum

Tony Adams, world class 🤣

He was a good manager in the 80’s at Villa and Watford. I agree that speech still really gets my hairs standing up. Unfortunately International football is a different game and he wasn’t suited to it. The only manager at the time who was really suited to it was Terry Venables, he’d managed Barcelona in the 80’s.

I think basically what you've put here. Southgate has done so many things right which other managers haven't. How can the only manager to get England to a Euro final be so unpopular with the fans?

@@alwilfrid 1. Because most of them are morons who can't see how much better we are because they don't really understand what they're looking at on the pitch. 2. Southgate doesn't fit what these idiots idea of a man or an England manager should be. He subconsciously threatens their masculinity because he is apparently a caring, thoughtful human being. He also supports anti racist and anti homophobic platforms (like take the knee) which makes them feel uncomfortable because they don't like it being implied that deep down they're racist and homophobic, which some of them are. They 'booo' gestures of equality because they see them as partizan political issues rather than support for people who are being oppressed or poorly treated. I think at least 75% of fans who think he should lose his job would also say that 'wokeness' is taking over our country and values.. which is of course a load of bullshit dreamed up by politicians and media trying to create a false narrative in order to scare people into thinking their way of life is somehow being taken away from them and therefore vote for certain political parties.

@@alwilfrid Because Southgate has the most talented English generation in at least two decades and he is squandering it badly.

@@TheSt1092 Our defence isn't that good and we can't play all our gifted midfielders at once - football isn't like that. Bellingham, Madison, Sterling, Foden, Grealish, Palmer and Saka are all too similar to be playing at the same time.

Southgate: 🙄

excellent point

Or the world class Ince who was only elevated by Venables What a tool, Robson and Venables showed how you set up a team, and who to pick The next occasion England looked like this was vs Romania 2000

@@jamesburke2094 I mean Thomas should have been the option if Ince was injured or suspended.

They were only really friendlies though. They actually did alright against Brazil.

You're 30 years too late

Gazza was overweight and unfit from ‘92 to ‘95. He was making excuses for his own under performing, he was supposed to be the star player.

Norway and Holland

They haven't always had the players. They're usually just average players who have been hyped up beyond all reason. The top nations have always had better players than England. Says it all when a lot of "experts" say Gazza was our greatest player. His biggest clubs were Spurs and Lazio. The top top players don't look back on their careers with peaks of Spurs and Lazio. Only trophy he "won" in his entire career was an FA Cup where he went off injured after 15 minutes. I'm not including the ones he won in Scotland. If Rangers aren't winning it then Celtic are. Who cares?

He was actually a successful club manager in the 80’s, it’s disrespectful to say that. He wasn’t suited to International football, but with the European club ban in the 80’s, most English managers at the time probably wouldn’t have done much better.

@@lucasm3879 nonsense . England were unlucky not to qualify for the World Cup . Hit the post twice in holland before Koman (who should have been sent off ) scored . A draw in that game and England would have qualified . Holland went on to almost beat Brazil in the quarter Finals . Small margins . England also thoroughly dominated the home game vs holland that ended 2-2.. Les Ferdinand missed a host of chances when put clean through by Carlton Palmer. Holland didn’t equalize till the 85th minute . Palmer - was a player that Taylor was routinely insulted for selecting bug he was outstanding in that game .

@@tyqwdybijo It doesn’t come down to bad luck over a whole qualifying campaign mate. You can blame bad luck for almost everything in football but at the end of the day it evens out over time. They just didn’t play well enough. Look at how much better they played under Venables with a more measured approach.

@@tyqwdybijo England took one point from two games v Norway - not good enough. Away to Poland 1 - 1 was another poor game. Rijkaard also had a goal ruled out in Rotterdam which should have been given. Like I said it all evens out. I never actually slated Palmer. There were other players I think should have been picked ahead of him, Michael Thomas for instance, but it’s 30 years ago now, it doesn’t really matter to be fair.