I agree

Plenty of people think Eriksson overachieved, or got as much out of the side as was possible - but if we could play good, controlled football under Hoddle and Venables, we must be able to do so now too. Hoddle didn't just lead us to that draw in Rome: against Italy at Le Tournoi, we were as brilliant as against Holland at Euro 96. And we were bloody good against Colombia and Argentina at the World Cup too, with Hoddle coming into his own tactically after Beckham was sent off.

Just a pity he ruined it all with such s**te, arrogant man-management. Tactically, he was our best since Ramsey I reckon.

Posted By: thebigfeller on November 19th 2007 at 14:06:19

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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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