When the European Championship circles back around, we get strapped to the same tired chairs and we're forced to watch the same pictures again and again. We see Bukayo Saka, Darius Vassell and Gareth Southgate missing penalties, the Icelandic thunderclap. The failures.

From Dzajic in ‘68, Netzer four years later and Pirlo in 2012: England have been beaten by class. From fighting in the stands in Rome, Phil Neville giving away a penalty and Graham Taylor substituting Gary Lineker: England have also been embarrassed.

They should have won it by now, shouldn't they?

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00:00 – Introduction
00:45 – Paranoia
05:35 – Problems
11:30 – Promise
17:10 – More Problems
21:40 – More Promise
25:15 – In Conclusion

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