Turned into one of our best 5 performances under Sven

Germany '01, Argentina '02, Turkey '03 (h) and Argentina '05 being the others. We finished the game looking a dynamic, exciting, quality side: but it seemed for all the world like we needed to go behind in order to do so. Germany '01 and Argentina '05 were like that too - but when we sat on a lead against Brazil, France and Portugal... well, we all know the rest.

I'd love us to play that well again on Wednesday - but apart from the first half against Russia at Wembley, we've never come remotely close to doing so under McClaren.

PS. Oh, and URST? Unresolved Sexual Tension. ;-)

Posted By: thebigfeller on November 19th 2007 at 13:54:57

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England vs Croatia in 2004 (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Nov 19, 13:43:04
- plenty of norwich fans at that game at benfica's (Other Football) - Cheltenham_Canary, Nov 19, 18:36:07
- Turned into one of our best 5 performances under Sven (Other Football) - thebigfeller, Nov 19, 13:54:57
- that was a brilliant 2nd half performance by England IIRC (n/m) (Other Football) - Brandonio, Nov 19, 13:50:49
  - won £60 that day (Other Football) - pants, Nov 19, 14:07:54
  - Yup. I seem to remember us being frightening, but statistically it was close (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Nov 19, 13:52:32
    - We almost never had the majority of possession under Sven, to be fair (Other Football) - thebigfeller, Nov 19, 13:56:09
      - different story under Hoddle (well bar a couple of big games!) (Other Football) - Brandonio, Nov 19, 14:02:18
        
        Agree 110% (n/m) (Other Football) - Brom, Nov 19, 14:43:33
        
        That's impossible, numbnuts (n/m) (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Nov 19, 14:44:32
        
        Agree, England were going places before he opened his trap (Other Football) - pants, Nov 19, 14:09:18
        
        I agree (Other Football) - thebigfeller, Nov 19, 14:06:19
        
        don't agree England played like that under Venables (Other Football) - Brandonio, Nov 19, 14:30:33
        
        Sure (Other Football) - thebigfeller, Nov 19, 14:45:26
        
        And Holland in 96 werein turmoil off the pitch, never mind on it (n/m) (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Nov 19, 14:37:33
        
        Against England, the Dutch "displayed a collective will of purest blancmange". (Other Football) - thebigfeller, Nov 19, 14:46:47
- Beckham was really good in 2004 (n/m) (Other Football) - pants, Nov 19, 13:48:28
  - uh-huh (n/m) (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Nov 19, 13:50:13

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