Goals can be deceptive

The unaimed bullet allways hits the target.

@badradger said
The unaimed bullet allways hits the target.

Yeah; the winning goals in both 1966 and 1974 were illegal, and both championships should have been reversed.

@shallow-blue said
Yeah; the winning goals in both 1966 and 1974 were illegal, and both championships should have been reversed.

1966 4-2 winning goal 3 or 4

@badradger said
1966 4-2 winning goal 3 or 4

Of course the 2-1 was offside already and the 3-2 was not a goal...

Germans still moaning about losing a game of football to England 56 years ago 😂

@badradger said
1966 4-2 winning goal 3 or 4

Agreed, Those were the days before replay which would change the way the game was called. They also added a referee having 2 instead of just 1. Even then they both miss things and it has to go to the replay. If the replay is inconclusive they will go with the call on the ice.

-VR

@ponderable said
Of course the 2-1 was offside already and the 3-2 was not a goal...

Yup, They wouldn't have been allowed in this day and age with the replay being introduced.

-VR

@divegeester said
Germans still moaning about losing a game of football to England 56 years ago 😂

English still dining out on winning it, ignoring the 56 subsequent years of failure.

@fmf said
English still dining out on winning it, ignoring the 56 subsequent years of failure.

I don’t think that is the case, not at all, in fact I’d say the culture and attitudes toward the English National Football team are quite the opposite.

While there is the cyclic head-up-the-metaphorical-ass silly optimism every time the international calendar crops up with another opportunity to lose on penalties, generally speaking us English are painfully aware of the lack of progress by the national team. Although the squad have stopped making dreadful pop songs, which is a win of sorts.

@divegeester said
I don’t think that is the case, not at all, in fact I’d say the culture and attitudes toward the English National Football team are quite the opposite.

While there is the cyclic head-up-the-metaphorical-ass silly optimism every time the international calendar crops up with another opportunity to lose on penalties, generally speaking us English are painfully aware of t ...[text shortened]... e national team. Although the squad have stopped making dreadful pop songs, which is a win of sorts.

I think the English assume that their national team should be in the WORLD top 6 or so teams, having won the world cup and all. But for most of the last 50+ years, they haven't even been consistently among EUROPE's top 6 teams.

I love how dedicated the English football/soccer fans are. Kind of like the Toronto Maple leaf fans only the English football/soccer team has won more Championships than the the Toronto Maple leaf's since 1967.

-VR

@very-rusty said
I love how dedicated the English football/soccer fans are. Kind of like the Toronto Maple leaf fans only the English football/soccer team has won more Championships than the the Toronto Maple leaf's since 1967.

Erm... neither England team has won anything since 1966... Even both Dutch teams have done (slightly) better since 1967.

@shallow-blue said
Erm... neither England team has won anything since 1966... Even both Dutch teams have done (slightly) better since 1967.

Yes Toronto beat Montreal In 1967 for the Stanley cup, look it up my friend.

-VR

@fmf said
I think the English assume that their national team should be in the WORLD top 6 or so teams, having won the world cup and all. But for most of the last 50+ years, they haven't even been consistently among EUROPE's top 6 teams.

I disagree; in fact being in the “top 6” in world football is irrelevant to the England supporter’s deluded mindset, which is centred on the trophy itself. A delusion protected by walls of cognitive dissonance and a stubborn refusal to consider reality.

@very-rusty said
I love how dedicated the English football/soccer fans are. Kind of like the Toronto Maple leaf fans only the English football/soccer team has won more Championships than the the Toronto Maple leaf's since 1967.

-VR

The England football team haven’t won any trophies since 1966.