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Skip to content- 1966 called. It's running out of things to say.
- Penalties: England's favourite way home.
- If it's coming home, it's taking the scenic route.
- Hampden roars. Wembley sighs.
- We don't need to win it. We just need them not to.
- Every tournament, the same plan: a song, a summer and a shootout.
- Tartan Army: loud at home, louder away.
- Their golden generation. Our golden summers watching it.
- Another semi-final, another early flight.
- Same anthem, same hope, same ending.
- Sixty years waiting. Make it sixty-one.
Anyone But England
· Tartan Army · Not themSixty years of hurt.We've enjoyed every one of them.
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England woes. All true, sadly for them.
We didn't make any of these up. We didn't need to.
- 1950 England lose 1-0 to the USA at their first World Cup.
- 1953 Hungary win 6-3 at Wembley. That's England's first home defeat to a side from outside the British Isles.
- 1974 England fail to qualify for the World Cup.
- 1990 World Cup semi-final, out on penalties.
- 1994 England fail to qualify for the World Cup again.
- 1996 Euro semi-final at Wembley, out on penalties. At home.
- 1998 World Cup last 16, out on penalties.
- 2008 England fail to qualify for the Euros, after losing 3-2 to Croatia at Wembley.
- 2010 World Cup last 16, beaten 4-1.
- 2014 World Cup, out after two group games.
- 2016 Euro last 16, beaten 2-1 by Iceland.
- 2021 Euro final at Wembley, out on penalties.
- 2024 Euro final, beaten 2-1 by Spain.
- 2026 World Cup semi-final, 1-0 up, beaten 2-1 by Argentina with a winner in stoppage time. That's three of their four World Cup semi-finals lost.
Still no final since 1966. We'll keep the list updated.
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