England Football
We've already had one about England bombing out at the Semi Finals, but I've picked one in particular that was a real kick in the bollocks.

It is of course Euro '96. I was seven years old and hadn't really paid much attention to watching football, but I really got into this tournament. I thought we had the best team, we had Shearer, Ferdinand, Seaman, Pearce, Gascoigne, Adams etc.

Well as a lot of you know, England won their group and beat Spain in that fantastic penalty shoot out to get to the Semi Final. That image of Stuart Pearce celebrating scoring his penalty will stay with me forever.

So it was on the 26th of June, 1996. I was sit in the living room with my dad and brother and we were watching the match. The genius that is Alan Shearer put England ahead straight away, but Stefan Kuntz (seemingly apt name) went and equalised not long after. It wasn't so bad at the time, but once it got to the penalty shootout, I became rather nervous to say the least.

It got to 5 - 5 and Gareth Southgate stepped up. He hit the ball low and to the left of the goal and Andreas Kopke saved it. My heart sank . Andreas Moller stepped up and put the ball straight past David Seaman.

England were out of the tournament I was certain we were going to win. As I mentioned earlier, I was seven years old and this was my first real taste of football disappointment. I didn't cry, but fuck me if it didn't hit me like a ton of bricks.

No disappointment I've ever felt in life or in football has ever matched that.
(geordiedave is reliving the time Southgate missed that penalty, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 18:20, 7 replies)

lol :)
On the contrary this is one of my favourite moments in football.

Up there with Argentina in 98 was it?


Bit of a cunt of a scot I am :P
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 18:29, closed)

Haha
you bastard!

Yeah, I was fucking gutted then too, but that wasn't quite as bad as the Euro '96.

While we're on the subject of Scotland, one of my favourite goals of all time was Gazza's against Scotland. What a fucking goal that was.
(geordiedave is reliving the time Southgate missed that penalty, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 18:36, closed)

I dont get the
way Scots like to see england lose. What does it matter to them?
(Kierz, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 18:44, closed)

I would post some sort
of clever reply, but I know exactly how they feel. I love watching the Welsh lose at rugby, probably slightly more than I like watching England win. I can't explain why.
(Bazongaloid, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 19:09, closed)

Gazza
The worst thing about that game was seeing gazza failing to get his foot close enough a cross in extra time, the cross had already beaten the keeper, but gazz had his obligator 5 kebabs the night before so he was aft and couldnt make it in time... Wanker
(Crayzswan is neither a swan nor crazy..., Sat 28 Jun 2008, 21:30, closed)

Sitting watching your
So called arch-rivals continue to be consistently more successful than you decade after decade kind of breeds jealousy.

Also the British media and John Motson don't help matters.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 10:07, closed)

I've never been dissapointed in football.
I find most of it gash and the players a bunch of overpaid whining window lickers.
( gareth_alien will be human again at, Wed 2 Jul 2008, 13:36, closed)