Dissecting that information 3 games came against top 5 or 6. (You don't get get to play many of these at major tournaments and the last one is nearly always a loss/draw).
Both Belgium games were effectively dead rubbers. France in Qatar could have gone either way and England were on top for most of the game, as bourne out in the stats. As a statistician I'd suggest 1 is a poor sample size.
Never mind England comfortably beat Italy (defending champions, ranked 7th in Europe) home and away in qualifying.
92-93 FA Trophy, lucky to get a 1-1 draw at their place, and also rode our luck in the 2-0 replay win. John Coleman played in the first game for the Shrimps.
technically they co-hosted the Benelux Euros but weren't allowed to qualify as hosts with Belgium and the Netherlands as no actual games were hosted there. Was more admin stuff.
I met her in Bologna whilst inter-railing around Italy a few years ago. Lovely woman, I nearly died of a heart attack the amount of food she cooked up for us.
Claudia talked fondly of Wycombe's Anglo-Italian Trophy exploits in the 70s. At least one of her 10 offspring has a strangely Bucks twang to their accent
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Great post, summing it all up nicely.
In 2021 less than 29% of English people were born during or after 1966 according to this data.
I think that counts as living memory!
Be interesting to compare that to the gasroom age survey if you have time @wwfcblue
Ross County set to appoint Morecambe manager Derek Adams for third spell - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67470726
Bloody hell, Derek really is the Scottish Nathan Jones
England's record under Southgate at Euros and World Cup suggests that is a fairly good assumption...
Beat - Tunisia, Panama & Sweden (2018), Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Ukraine & Denmark (2020), Iran, Wales & Senegal (2022)
Drew - Colombia[W] (2018), Scotland & Italy[L] (2020), USA (2022)
Lost - Belgium x2 & Croatia (2018), France (2022)
Surely not ANOTHER new manager bounce to contend with...?
Fun fact - the last time we played Morecambe in a knock-out competition, we went on to win it !!!
Adams' departure confirmed, nothing from Ross County yet.
https://www.morecambefc.com/news/2023/november/club-statement--derek-adams
Dissecting that information 3 games came against top 5 or 6. (You don't get get to play many of these at major tournaments and the last one is nearly always a loss/draw).
Both Belgium games were effectively dead rubbers. France in Qatar could have gone either way and England were on top for most of the game, as bourne out in the stats. As a statistician I'd suggest 1 is a poor sample size.
Never mind England comfortably beat Italy (defending champions, ranked 7th in Europe) home and away in qualifying.
92-93 FA Trophy, lucky to get a 1-1 draw at their place, and also rode our luck in the 2-0 replay win. John Coleman played in the first game for the Shrimps.
technically they co-hosted the Benelux Euros but weren't allowed to qualify as hosts with Belgium and the Netherlands as no actual games were hosted there. Was more admin stuff.
Tectonic plates are woke
I'm still a Royal Doulton man.
With how they have been flying under Adams, it's more likely to be a new manager crash!
Italy are an odd case, Win one tournament, fail to qualify for others, we'd take that though.
At least one of their 30s World Cup wins involved a rather large case stuffed full of money.
The 1930s were before 1966 though so nobody is living to verify from memory
As of 19 November 2023, the oldest living person in Italy is Claudia Baccarini born on 13 October 1910 in Emilia-Romagna, aged 113 years, 37 days.
I met her in Bologna whilst inter-railing around Italy a few years ago. Lovely woman, I nearly died of a heart attack the amount of food she cooked up for us.
She had 10 children so her funeral should attract a large attendance!
Claudia talked fondly of Wycombe's Anglo-Italian Trophy exploits in the 70s. At least one of her 10 offspring has a strangely Bucks twang to their accent
RIP Domenica Ercolani
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Any relation to the Lucian R Ercolani who started making fabulous furniture in Wycombe in 1920 I wonder ?
If Claudia is to be believed, it's more than likely
Now confirmed as Ross County manager.
Could be as they were born about 17 miles apart south of San Marino
Harry. Maguire.
VAR making more great decisions in the Euro qualifiers
Probably because they are currently losing to the 66th.
(Though I doubt it will stay that way)
Beyond parody