Jimmy Hill was light years ahead of the rest of the media. Here in 2022, we still have the same problems, with players who can’t retain possession of the ball, sit back and ultimately lose

Regardless of how embarrassing things were under Graham Taylor, he always conducted himself impeccably in interviews. RIP.

RIP Mr Venables - thanks for everything. x

It was a bitter disappointment not qualifying for the-1994 World Cup, but the media treatment at Graham was beyond contempt. He didn't deserve that,and I fully enjoyed listening to his television interviews. A really nice bloke. As always, you win some,you lose some. It just wasn't to be at that time.I also thought at the time if time travel was possible, how much I could have made on a bet for San Marino to score in the first few seconds!:)No doubt many countries worldwide were highly delighted that England didn't make it back then!

Upon watching this now Terry had a belief that despite the limited numbers of English talent available the right manager could build a good tournament team - which showed at euro 96... Jimmy Hill understood the problems with the English game and was ahead of his time... He was spot on in pointing out how many English players were playing in Italy (the best league in the world at that time). He was always methodical, logical and eloquent in delivering his analysis of the game. Yet to mention Desmond as an anchor he is far better Anchor than the likes of Richard keys we see today, the basic skill of listening to the discussion in hand and challenging such with the right questions.... If you look at punditry today there are more bad ones than good ones... Terry Vennables and Jimmy hill are much better than the likes of Roy Keane, Graeme Souness, Andy Gray, Peter Reid and Jamie Redknapp who we constantly see on sky and BeIN sports... They speak with such intelligence and decorum .

I’m a Coventry fan and we all love Jimmy Hill this man was way ahead of his time when he was manager of the Sky Blues and always loved watching as a pundit he knew what he was talking about and was definitely not a joke. PUSB

watching this a few things standout. des lynam is streets ahead of today's anchormen. Jimmy hill was ridiculed at the time, but was spot on in terms of the problems within the English game.

Ian Wright got almost 50% of his International goals in this match :-/

What's interesting is not only Jimmy Hill being totally on the money about the English Game. But also how much resistance and scorn he receives when he tries to explain it. I was brought up to think he was a figure of fun, a clown figure, but that's what this country does to people who have analytical skill and foresight. At the root of it, it's because these people demand change, something we're all scared of in this country. RIP Jimmy mate, you were bang-on. side note: do you think he knew Venables was going to take the job, that's why he said if you were intelligent then you wouldn't take it. Seems like a sly-dig. And that San Marino goal - hmmmmm - 🐟

El tel took charge after that for Euro 96 and nearly won, that split second stutter from gazza with the goal gaping still hurts 😔

An honest review of England managers since 1990; -Graham Taylor. Had a lot of poor luck, certainly didn't have the best England team. However his direct style of play wasn't well suited to international football. Press' treatment of him was disgraceful. -Terry Venables. Never had to qualify for a tournament. Did well at Euro 96 but that was partly boosted by the momentum of home advantage. Can't really judge him although he did help England develop some sort of passing game. -Glenn Hoddle. The best fit we've had since 1990. Style of play suited for international management and was a popular figure. Also showed the balls to drop stars, as he dropped the unfit Gazza for the world cup. Should have been the England manager for the next few tournaments, Had potential to develop a great side with "golden generation" players coming through. Sadly blew up with some stupid comments. -Kevin Keegan. Popular guy, played exciting football but too tactically naive for international management. -Peter Taylor. (caretaker.) Made his mark by making Beckham Captain, who would keep the job for half a decade. Singlehandedly destroyed Leicester City after this, probably a good thing he wasn't appointed permanently. -Sven Goran Eriksson. Wasted our "golden generation" with uninspiring quarter final runs. Seemed to have no idea of tactics or squad discipline. Always picked players based on reputation, his England were a collection of individuals not a team. Spent years trying to get Lampard and Gerrard playing well together and trying to find a solution to our perennial "left midfield" problem, neither of which he ever achieved. Also kept picking "the beast" Heskey, for some reason. His salary was obscene. -Steve McClaren. By all accounts he's a good coach, but as an England manager completely out of his depth, poor lamb. -Fabio Capello. An inverse of Svens lack of discipline, he made the players miserable with his rigid, authoritarian methods in the World Cup 2010. Rooney played the worst football of his career (upto Fergie leaving Man Utd) at this tournament. Combined with his lack of tactics (bizarre for an Italian coach) no player was able to reach their potential under him. Throwing on Heskey when 4-1 down against Germany summed it up. -Roy Hodgson. Did not seem to display any passion for the job, imo he just did it for the money. Brought nothing whatsoever to the England team, he managed to subvert expectations by staying in the job through three miserable tournaments. It took our worst ever result (losing to Iceland) to get him out the job. -Sam Allardyce. 100% winning record as England manager. Best manager ever!! -Gareth Southgate. Has proved surprisingly adept at the job so far, getting the team playing fairly close to their potential. England certainly missed an opportunity to reach the world cup final though, we'll see what he does after the Covid crisis ends

Venables was spot on about discarding the likes of Waddle and Beardsley too early. Taylor made a huge error there in his haste to change everything.

Jimmy Hill spoke so much sense. A much missed legend.

23 years later and we're still asking the same questions!

Des Lynam shutting down everything Jimmy Hill says despite it all being 100% correct

This was the night of the infamous night in November, the Republic of Ireland v Northern Ireland. National crisis of anxiety, the Republic had to get a result and the boys up north wanted nothing more than to spoil the possible World Cup Adventure. Was watching in a jam packed pub in North Dublin. The bar man flicked on this game. San Marino scored, cue explosions of hysterical laughter. Tension released, vanished, gone, roll on the Belfast battle. I’ve always liked England for that reason. Best team now since Italia ‘90 where a jammy West Germany put you out with the flukiest free kick ever

Couldn't agree more with John Toshack

Ohhhhhh to have heard Jimmy Hill summing up after the Iceland debacle. Sadly not to.beboos RIP JH xxxx

I think Jimmy Hill was a Habsburg emperor in a previous life

I love watching this retrospectively, particularly the pundits analysis between Des, Jimmy and Terry. Considering what we know happened afterwards. Terry being the next manager and England going from missing out on a World Cup to getting to the Semi Final's of Euro 96, all the while playing some magnificent football at times. Football, is indeed, a funny old game.

England had bad campaign. Jimmy Hill was a one of the greatest analytics. He was right in his points. That's what happened many years after that.

Jimmy was always ahead of the game

Taylor was a great man. Very honest and honourable, and great on 5live when he joined the BBC. Jimmy Hill was spot on here about young players being taught early by proper coaches. Now it's the modern way.

The sad thing is what Jimmy and Terry were talking about in 1993 the limitations of English football we are still banging on about it today in 2014.

Graham was a fine club manager, his record speaks for itself, he himself admitted the england job was too big for him, an honest man muchly missed

" It's only football not war " bless you Des ...

Des basically imploring El Tel to take the job here..

Jimmy Hill was passionate about the game and very knowledgeable.

I think Terry nailed it on the head there, when he suggested Taylor discarded some of his senior players too early. The likes of Beardsley, Waddle, captain marvel still had a part to play

Yeah thanks for your input there John

What is pretty amazing to think about is this...If Poland had beaten Netherlands, that opening San Marino goal still would have screwed England over and in that case, San Marino could have taken the credit for getting England knocked out of qualification.

Watching AEW and somehow came across this clip. I enjoyed it very much. I remember watching this qualifying campaign as a kid. I’ll never forget the Koeman free kick

I always remember thinking how dodgy that shitty back pass from Pearce looked. In hindsight, I wonder what the odds were on San Marino taking a one nil lead. Just saying.

Jimmy Hills insight was bang on. English players are still not comfortable enough on the ball, nearly 30 years on and still hardly any English players play overseas whereas the English league is full of foreign plyers. England could get extremely lucky in a tournament and even win a World Cup but unless we change our attitudes we are never going to be able to play the best teams off the park.

I always remember my dad burst into tears of laughter when san marino scored

What a goal by Paulie walnuts

Graham Taylor was a disaster as England Manager. He had Mark Hateley one of the most rampant strikers in top level European competition that season and he gave him one game a friendly in Prague then dropped him. Hateley would have been very effective against the Dutch. Some say Taylor had no idea, he had his own idea but I don't know what that was.

England's last competitive international for over two and a half years. Their next competitive match was the Euro '96 opener against Switzerland.

Jimmy Hill wasn't scared of saying what needed to be said. It made him unpopular with some.

Nice of them to invite John Toshack along

Chinny Hill, we used to give the man so much abuse which he took with good humour, wish he was still here, a true legend of British football.

still strikingly relevant to our situation today, nothings changed

4:08 The FA, useless suits then, useless suits now.

21 years later, and people asking the same questions, and getting the same answers, Pretty funny stuff :)

Always a postmortem after we've been knocked out but we were cheated big time against Holland.

Graham Taylor was completely clueless. Goodness me !! Meanwhile in the clip Terry Venables claims the England manager Job is not attractive to him, but he ends up taking the job a few weeks later !!!???

People mentioning Toshack not saying anything. He was there to talk about the Wales game v Romania, which was played on the same night.

It's funny looking back at that now and seeing Terry Venables sat there soon to take us to one of England's most successful tournaments only a couple of years later. Had to feel for Taylor despite his shortcomings he was a true gent and as Bobby Robson showed in Italia 90 it might have turned out different for him in the world cup had we qualified. I remember the similar media hysteria surrounding Robson after Euro 88 and even leading up to Italia 90 so you just never know at a tournament - sometimes it just clicks.

1-0 Davide Gualtieri (1 min) 1-1 Paul Ince (22 min) 1-2 Ian Wright (34 min) 1-3 Les Ferdinand (38 min) 1-4 Ian Wright (46 min) 1-5 Paul Ince (73 min) 1-6 Ian Wright (78 min) 1-7 Ian Wright (90 min)

Jimmy Hill was right. Things have improved in recent years but the same challenges ring true. We are careless in position and unable to open up the best teams. We are not producing the Pirlos or Zidane of world football, the magicians who can make the crucial difference against the very top sides.

At 01:48 who was player that sent the ball down for the pickup? Was he a defender?

At least Graham Taylor didn't drive 260 miles to Durham infected with Coronavirus. The press mangled him, and I believed it at the time. Now I feel very sorry that I did. He tried his best.

The whole conversation at the end could very well be describing the current England problems. This was 21 years ago and basically nothing has changed haha

The best comment on all of this was a front cover of When Saturday Comes. It shows Graham Taylor and a speech bubble which said simply “ God, we were crap weren’t we? “ Tells you everything you need to know. On another subject, this and other videos- notably about Hillsboro- show the true calibre of Hill and Lynham. Much undervalued at the time, Titans by today’s standards. No disrespect to Lineker, Hansen, or Wright, but these guys nailed it. They were very very good.

Been banging on about it since 1966!

Jimmy Hill reminds me of Bob Willis on the verdict

Jimmy Hill spot on here!

I remember midway through the second half with England's qualification chances over due to Holland leading Poland, BBC switched to Wales v Romania just in time for Paul Bodin smashing a penalty against the bar.

and Im so glad Netherlands qualified instead of England, because it provided me with one of the most memorable WC games from my childhood: Brazil 3 x 2 Netherlands

Des Lynham was always subtly mocking Jimmy Hill. I remember the Romanians at the '94 WC all bleaching their hair and Lynham rinsing Jimmy for suggesting it might help them spot eachother in their peripheral vision - which makes sense tbf - but Lynham mocked the shit out of Jimmy for daring to put it forward as an idea. Here, Lynham is trying to override Jimmy's (correct) observation that the solution was better players developed from a younger age. Jimmy Hill was a very knowledgeable and nice man. Des Lyhnam was a prick to him constantly - even though Jimmy was too nice to notice he was being rinsed all the time. I'm glad that Des now can't get on TV for love nor money. RIP Jimmy Hill RIP Graham Taylor

Why wasn't John asked for an opinion? He managed Real Madrid twice!

Loved the few seconds that is what the game is know for

It's funny seeing people saying Jimmy Hill was spot on saying England didn't have the players to compete. Yet in the following two tournaments we played much better football under Venables in '96 and Hoddle in '98. It's quite clear that although Hill is partially right, in the sense that we hadn't and still don't generally have the technical skill that certain top nations did/do, that Venables was equally correct in saying that the right manager and better tactics makes the world of difference. Football has proven this time and time again.

Jim Hill was wise didn't just pander to keep his job safe.

Well described there cestrian81. Most folk including myself probably remember this as a complete dead rubber after the loss in Holland, but actually England still had more than a purely mathematical chance. That is despite qualification being out of their hands and THAT first minute shocker.

Watching this in 2023! 30 years later, amazing

Jimmy Hill is talking a lot of sense. And we are having the same problem now. Same failings.

Really like hearing from.Jimmy Hill. Talks a lot of sense. Miss him.

I was in Poznan that night. Poland were beaten by the Netherlands so it would not have made any difference. Hard to believe it was more than 25 years ago.

Graham Taylor seems like the good old days now lol

San Marino's current record is 1-145-6 [23-638],they are 0-80-1 at the moment.1990-Present.

Jimmy had to be a Habsburg with that jawline

"A mistake by Stuart Pearce" Oh dear. he did provide some memories :)

I remember watching this at the time, John Toshak just sat there not saying a word lol, Jimmy Hill as always speaks a lot of sense.

The chin on Jimmy Hill is Remarkable! Used to scare me when I was kid. He had a great knowledge of the game though.

20 years ago tonight

we were slightly unlucky, could easily gone our way and Graham Taylor was a true gentleman who conducted himself brilliantly.

Its always been a mess since 1971: 1974 & 1978 not even there, 1982 choked in second round, no goals, 1984 not there, 1986 didn't turn up until 2 down v Arg, 1988 3 defeats, 1992, 1st rd, 1994 not there, 96 & 98 cant score penalties, 2000 first round, 2002 stopped playing v 10 men Brazil, 2004 & 2006, cant score pens again, 2008 needed 1 point from last 2 games, lost em both, 2010 Algeria were better than us, then 4-1 loss, 2012 cant score pens, 2014 wished we hadn't qualified... and they reckon we´ll win in Qatar? Braindead FA.

I loved Jimmy Hill .

6:48 qualifying was WAY harder back then too. As you can see, HUGE groups with tricky af away games.

Terry was right when he said Graham shouldn't have discarded those players. I was surprised Beardsley and Waddle were discarded and Taylor was never that keen on Gascoigne either. However, Jimmy Hill was spot on too. I have said for years England players were technically not as gifted as their foreign counterparts and that worked against them. They could rarely string 5 passes together. Although 30 years later, that has totally changed. Respect to the panel by the way. This was when we had proper pundits. Not the silly cartoon clown characters we get now.

What a classic. Behind after a record fastest goal in a World Cup qualifier or finals in 8.3 seconds to minnows San Marino. You could not have scripted it and be believed!!

Strange to see this come up after the passing of Terry Venables. Jimmy Hill and Graham Taylor are no longer with us either. The England's manager's job is a posioned challis, no matter who is in charge. EL Tel definitely got a tune out of an unruly but very talented bunch of players during that glorius summer at Euro 96, 2 and a half years on from here. He restored pride back into playing for England, who knows what could of been if he was able to remain manager beyond euro 96. Agree with what Jimmy Hill said to about the culture of English football. Even though they had differing opinions to El Tel.. Jimmy Hill actually spoke a lot of sense, and his opinions have been echoed a lot in the 30 years after this.

Motty absolutely nailing the casual racism there, not knowing the difference between Ferdinand and Wright for the whole first half!

Dark Days after the euphoria of Italia 90, the failure of Euro 92 and failure to qualify for USA 94 was a low point of the likes of 1974 and 78. Taylor a nice chap and conducted himself with integrity, but as a tactician for England was sadly not good.

Mr Taylor RIP sir.

The press didn't help in all this, Taylor was treated appallingly it was a horrible time in English football, his wife was even abused and spat on, i always felt sorry for Graham it wasn't all his fault and even if it was there is no need for anyone to be treated like he was, its only a game!

Jimmy Hill speaks so much sense, bring him back BBC

The next England manager after Taylor, sat in the studio talking about the next England Manager.

Jimmy hill speaks sense

Looks like Spain followed Jimmy's advice ha. The FA are clowns. Should have never sacked Glen Hoddle.

Football punditry that is light years ahead of what goes out these days

The Game against Holland prior to this game was a disgrace!! Ronald Kidman should have been sent off. The same man scored a free kick in a 2-0 loss for England. Let that sink in.

My old dad (RIP) had a Tenner on San Marino to win. He was counting his money after 5 mins

Sam Marino hoping to park the bus for 89:51 minutes… What they forgot of course is that in Italy and especially San Marino parking any bus for more than 5 minutes is highly illegal and yields huge fines…

In awe at the size of Jimmy Hills chin. What an absolute unit.

Been playing catch up since 1966.

I lived abroad at the time and so never really felt the pain thank heavens.

Haha nothing has changed in 23 years.

Jimmy Hill said this is 1993 and 25 years later the problems are still there