Quote Originally Posted by Acido View Post
You need to be lucky to win a game on pens, whether you have been the better team or not. And they scraped it twice on pens during the tournament.

I agree with all the criticism that we get because of Southgate etc, and I still can't understand how we blew those last two tournaments.
A World cup Semi and a Euro Final, and we were leading in both games, and then look what happened!!.
The fact is the best teams don't always win the World Cup or the Euros .

Something I learned many years ago when that fantastic Brazil side at the 82 World Cup went home before the semi final .

The two Brazil sides that have won the World Cup since in 94 and 2002 weren't even close to that 82 side in my opinion .

Italy had their name on the Euros last summer and unfortunately there's nowt you can do about that other than hope our names on something very soon .