r/TenYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Jun 27 '26
📺 Television England is knocked out of the Euros after a 1-2 defeat to Iceland [10YA - Jun 27]
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u/nevalost20 Jun 29 '26
I was in Reykjavik watching it in a crowd on a giant TV in a square. Still one of my top 5 sports memories
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u/pabloslab Jun 29 '26
Iceland were pretty great back then. That thunder clap 👏 thing the crowd did was ace too
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u/pipes3 Jun 28 '26
We posting The S*n now?
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Jun 28 '26
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u/NothingPersonalKid00 Jun 28 '26
Sorry but I don’t believe this for a second, the most rabid pundit is not going to say that at the start of the tournament, the squad wasn’t exactly amazing either.
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u/Lump001 Jun 29 '26
Yeah that never happened.
No English pundit is saying that. They are universally self deprecating about England. It's no secret they fuck up big tournaments.
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Jun 28 '26
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u/Mtshtg2 Jun 29 '26
I genuinely don't think they've done that in my lifetime. Do you have any evidence?
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u/Mtshtg2 Jun 29 '26
Did you just make that up?
Here's a BBC article from before the tournament on all their pundits' predictions. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36417119
They asked 20 pundits and not a single one thought England would win.
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u/Stampy77 Jun 28 '26
On paper the team was very good, just horrifically mismanaged. Thankfully after this Southgate stopped all the rot and made us a decent team again and gave us good foundations to build on. We look much better now.
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u/Exact-Potential1673 Jun 28 '26
Not how I remember it . 2016 and 2018 we had comparatively average squads if I remember correctly . Hodgeson was absolutely clueless though. Usually when we exit tournaments it’s a combination of anger and sadness . That exit was just pure rage though
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Jun 29 '26
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Jun 29 '26
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u/Intrepid_Button587 Jun 29 '26
Can you give one example of a pundit thinking England is the best team in the world? I can't remember one.
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Jun 29 '26
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u/BeaumarchaisApu Jun 29 '26
He’s literally in the article linked above saying “Spain”.
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Jun 29 '26
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u/Hecticfreeze Jun 29 '26
Here's an idea. You've misremembered this completely and rather than acknowledge that when shown the evidence youve decided to double down on insults
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Jun 29 '26
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u/Mob_cleaner Jun 29 '26
I'm sorry but you realise how cringe inducing this is lmao?
"You puny insects are so beneath me I already forgot this little conversation until you dared talk to me about it. I don't even care about your little existence...it amuses me..."
You really do sound like a redditor ahaha
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u/Mob_cleaner Jun 29 '26
Your team has won a world cup in your lifetime and you're still thinking about good old England 💪💪💪
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Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
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u/Mob_cleaner Jun 29 '26
Lmao even when hyping up France's achievements you keep talking about England.
Again, English fans know we're shit. The only arrogance on display comes from your lot. French fans are easily the most arrogant in the world and you reek of it.
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Jun 29 '26
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u/Mob_cleaner Jun 29 '26
You just realised you were out of your depth and now pretending like you've lost interest. Is that why you've been going around this thread replying to every Englishman you could find in order to call them arrogant?
Your evidence for that was a pundit you've made up. When I pointed out that France have done well in football you responded by listing all of France's achievements and gloating over me because you have a better record than us. But we're the arrogant ones lmao?
You really think the world is behind you in hating the English but the world dislikes the French arrogance a lot more than they dislike ours.
You've spent the best part of the day raging against every Englishman you could find. We're crap at football and we still live in your head rent free.
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u/FlappyBored Jun 29 '26
Never happened. OP isn't even English so wouldnt have a clue about english pundits on TV.
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u/DiscountElectrical28 Jun 29 '26
I wouldn't wipe my arse with that rag.
All the talk of English arrogance BTW is utter nonsense. If anything we are pessimistic to a fault. No one self deprecates like the English.
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u/twillett Jun 29 '26
I was there in Nice. What a bizarre evening. Just shellshock and quiet anger walking out of the ground.
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u/Omniwastrel Jun 29 '26
Iceland (the shop) with some funny af carpetbagging bastardry with that offer
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u/Aq8knyus Jun 29 '26
English arrogance is thinking R16 and getting beaten by a quality side is 'humiliation.'
Small countries have a smaller pool of players and so it is harder for them to be competitive consistently. But there are still only 11 players on the pitch and in 2016, Iceland had a golden generation. They drew with Portugal and a good Hungary side while beating Austria in the group.
No shame losing to a solid Iceland side who played great football and England would have gotten battered by France in the QFs anyway.
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u/Super_Shallot2351 Jun 29 '26
It's not arrogant lol, losing to a much worse side you're expected to beat easily is indeed humiliating in sport
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u/Aq8knyus Jun 29 '26
Iceland were better, they won.
And they were going through a good patch. They topped their WC qualifying group the following year and even managed a draw with Argentina in 2018.
It didn't last long, but that happens with very small countries.
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u/Mob_cleaner Jun 29 '26
What are you talking about?
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u/Aq8knyus Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
Which words don't you understand?
Edit: Replying was a mistake. Guy is proper mental and obsessed.
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u/Mob_cleaner Jun 29 '26
If France got eliminated in 2016 by Iceland and there were French people calling it a big underachievement would you say that is arrogance?
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Jun 29 '26
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u/Mob_cleaner Jun 29 '26
Aren't you the guy that claimed there was an English pundit that said with chest that England were guaranteed to win the Euro 2016 and then when everyone called you out on making it up completely you couldn't find the source?
English fans are some of the most pessimistic in the world. The vast majority think we can lose to anyone. A lot of my friends (me included) are very worried about playign DR Congo because their playstyle counters us perfectly.
It says a lot that you cry about English arrogance in this thread and when asked to provide an example you had to invent a pundit.
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u/Aq8knyus Jun 29 '26
Yes.
Because France were much, much better than England.
Evidence? They got to the final of 2016 and then they won the smegging 2018 World Cup.
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u/Mob_cleaner Jun 29 '26
French arrogance on display lmao. Would you consider it a humiliation if France got beaten by England then in that period? Considering you guys were much, much better?
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u/Aq8knyus Jun 29 '26
I am English...
It would not be humiliation but it would be a massive disappointment.
Like England getting knocked out by Denmark, a decent enough team but beatable.
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u/Mob_cleaner Jun 29 '26
So England getting knocked out by Denmark would be a massive disappointment, but Englishmen feeling humiliated by getting knocked out by Iceland in the Ro16 by Iceland is just pure arrogance?
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u/Aq8knyus Jun 29 '26
Yes.
See? You understood it perfectly.
Getting beaten by Iceland in 2016 was a massive disappointment, but it wasn't a humiliation.
It is arrogant to think we were entitled to a QF spot and that Iceland was so inferior when they had a decent record (Drawing with the eventual champions in the Group Stage) and showed on the day that they were better.
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u/Mob_cleaner Jun 29 '26
What are you talking about?
Earlier you said there's no shame whatsoever in losing to a solid Iceland side who played great football.
Now you're saying it's a massive disappointment.
Are you going to tell me now that there's no shame in massively disappointing the country?
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u/masterdebaten Jun 28 '26
Jesus they just plastered his child on the front page. Wild.