• NateJW@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Coulda just ended just shit honestly.

        Don’t think there’s any other country’s media that overhypes the National team quite like ours lol.

        !But obviously it’s coming home next year!<

    • CherkiCheri@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Barely a top 10 European NT, bit shocking for a country with England’s means and culture.

    • beaver_cops@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      The most annoying thing is that people kept saying “bring it home” but they never won the Euro before

  • TheItalianStallion64@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    wtf we’ve only lost 6 euro matches?

    guess it makes sense if we have a high percentage of making it out of the groups, as a loss eliminates us. still crazy

    • afito@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Also the advantage of simply not qualifying if your team is ““proper shit””, Italy never lost more than one game at an EC even when you went out in groups. You even managed to get knocked out in groups without a loss in 2004. Germany in contrast always qualified but has a lot of ECs with 2 losses, often that infamous 2nd group stage game, and sometimes even had 2 losses in group stages (2000).

      • DeathStar13@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        If you count every extra game for Germany as a loss for Italy Italy would just have 1 more loss than Germany and I’m sure Italy wouldn’t have lost every single group game with not even a draw. It’s not like there is a staggering difference in games played.

    • CoryTrevor-NS@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Keep in mind that from 1960 to 1976 the Euro was only a 4-team tournament, and from 1980 to 1992 an 8-team one.

      While the first tournament Croatia took part in was composed of 16 teams until 2012, and 24 teams currently.

    • 14-05-2005@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      We weren’t that shit, qualifying was harsher than it is now and we were unlucky a few times.

      • Ohmygosh0@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        You were shit compared to now. You only qualified twice to the world cup prior to 2002 but qualified to every WC since then.

    • Viriato181@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It’s not that we were just shit. It’s also that it was harder to qualify. Between 1960 and 1992, only 8 or less teams qualified. The enlargement of the tournament allowed us to participate more times.

    • defraz1872@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Should see my country(Scotland) on the list of 37 teams. Only ever qualified for 3 Euros and were terrible at them all.

      • metroplex313@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        We were unlucky in ‘92 and went out in ‘96 on goal difference (we were going through until Seaman let the ball go through his legs when England pumped the Netherlands). We were shit at the last one.

    • Willsgb@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Well, they’re not counting our last 16 defeat of Switzerland at euro 2016 because it finished 1-1 and we won the penalty shootout. Really we have 3 wins, but yeah. All of those wins came at that tournament too, we beat Northern Ireland and Ukraine in the group stage there