This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Football is a simple game – 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end … well, you know the rest by…
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This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE There’s an argument to say that 1996 was the peak of the 1990s. The Spice Girls ruled the airwaves, the N64 changed gaming forever, while in…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Scoop, lob, chip, dink: no, not the fuzzy-costumed line-up of an early 2000s children’s television series, but some of the most visually pleasing sights in…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE When Austrian referee Gerd Grabher blew for full-time, it was one of those rarest of occasions in international football when fans of the winning team…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE It felt like it was never going to arrive. From the moment the two protagonists of international football’s oldest fixture were drawn in the same…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Heading into the fixture on 14 June 1996, Italy had already won their opening match, a 2-1 triumph over Russia on Merseyside. The Czech Republic…
While the game may be littered with strikers more gifted or glamorous, few can claim they were as prolific, as persistent or as loved as Oliver Bierhoff
Between the heroics of Van Basten in 1988 and Shearer in 1996, when England faced Holland in the Euros, explosive games were the norm
Not for a moment did Reynald Pedros even entertain the thought of leaving his hand by his waist as his squad delegated penalty duties between them. Offering his services was exactly the…
MARCEL REIF, the best-known German football commentator in recent decades, published a book in 1996 in which he and other authors wrote down their impressions of the European Championship tournament that took…
It has been 20 long years since Euro 96 had English fans dreaming. Boasting one of the best England squads in recent decades, the Three Lions made it all the way to the semis before succumbing to old foes Germany on penalties.