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Date published: Thursday 8th December 2022 8:02 -Doing this made us realise that for all Gareth Southgate’s tremendous success with England, there aren’t that many one-off games that make it to this list. Southgate’s teams and their calm progress through tournaments are all about stringing together lots of good games rather than producing the occasional brilliant one.
Wayne Rooney bagged a couple following his brace in the previous game against Switzerland to become the tournament’s top scorer, with Paul Scholes and Frank Lampard getting themselves on the scoresheet too. The victory set up a quarter-final meeting with hosts Portugal, which saw England suffer a familiarly heart-breaking defeat with all the usual ‘disallowed goals’ and ‘f**king b**tard penalties’ trimmings.
The second half began badly for England and worse for Beckham. His red card for reacting to Diego Simeone’s foul provoked hanging effigies and death threats. But his team-mates did all they could to bail Beckham out, with a backs-to-the-wall display that was crowned by Sol Campbell’s late headed winner – until the ref got involved.
The Three Lions, and Beckham, had their revenge in Sapporo. The skipper smashed in the winning penalty just before half-time after Owen hit the deck in the vicinity of Mauricio Pochettino’s leg. “If somebody told me you are going up to heaven and you can take one game with you, I think I would take that England game,” said Barry Davies after talking the public through it for the BBC. “I’d try to get the result changed when I got up there, though.”Italia ’90 was the best or worst tournament ever, depending on who you listen to.
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