PGowdy said:
We were actually quite **** in 1990. I think people choose to remember it differently but it was a miracle we got as far as we did. We scraped out of the group with 1 win. Scraped past Belgium in the first round 1-0 and then nearly lost to Cameroon in the QFs. If it weren't for 2 penalties we would have lost and they very nearly equalised at the end to take it to ET. Then we got our first real test- Germany. We lost.
Lol, no rose tinted glasses for you
My tinted rims help me remember it very differently....
Dodgy start to the group, I think an injury or suspension forced us to make changes that actually made us better, beat the Belgies 1-0 (last minute winner), a bit lucky against Cameroon, took the lead against the Germans, they got a lucky deflected goal, we drew but lost on penalties (the beginning of our penalties woe). Lost the third place match due to Gazza being suspended.
Then again that reads pretty close to your description :lol: