Two current England players are among the country's greatest ever performers at major tournaments. Who else has stepped up at the Euros and World Cup?
Two current England players are among the country’s greatest ever performers at major tournaments. Who else has stepped up at the Euros and World Cup?
England failed to capitalise on either platform, and by his own admission Owen was not nearly in good enough condition to be selected for the 2006 World Cup. His international tournament career ending with a year-long injury suffered less than a minute into a game with no players near him was both apt and unbefitting., Kane has scored twice to extend his World Cup and Euros career record to 14 goals in 27 games – four more than his closest compatriot.
Gascoigne played 11 games in that glorious summer and the 1990 World Cup. That Scotland stunner was his only goal in those matches, while inspired assists came in wins over Egypt, Belgium and the Netherlands. The accepted wisdom is that England, as reigning champions, would have reached at least another semi-final had Banks not eaten those dodgy leftovers before the West Germany game in Mexico. “Of all the players to lose it had to be him,” Sir Alf Ramsey said at the time, not exactly imbuing the back-up Peter Bonetti with confidence.It can be tough to objectively assess the Golden Generation without simply tarring them all with the same brush of disappointment and ultimately failure.
Only nine players have more all-time World Cup goals than Lineker, who scored more than half of his in knockout games, boasts a hat-trick on such a prominent stage and converted a penalty in a semi-final shoot-out. Yet his most enduring World Cup memory was in quite literally bricking it at the prospect of an aerial duel against Kevin Moran.
Charlton did not feature at all in Sweden 1958 and was part of a side which laboured to a quarter-final defeat against Brazil in Chile four years later. By 1966 he was wrapping up the Ballon d’Or with those goals to beat Eusebio’s Portugal in the semi-final, before pulling the strings against West Germany at Wembley.
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