IndustryStandard Never forgive Hoddle leaving him out of the France 98 squad .

Gazza was absolutely furious apparently.

Smashed up his room at the hotel.

Glennda had a nasty/horrible side to him.

      Smallman1 Absolutely the right choice.

      Built a team around Scholes as a creative force instead, and would have gone further but for Beckham’s sending off.

          I’ve never re-watched it to be honest.

          But England did very well in the build up to France 98 and I think sidelining Scholes to allow a bigger role for Gazza would have been the wrong decision.

          Not sure he could have accommodated both in his system, could he?

            Didn’t Carlos Roa, their penalty save hero, pretty much retire after that World Cup (aged 24 or something) and go and live on a kibbutz?

            Along_the_Wire If I were a football manager, there is absolutely no way I would let Gazza anywhere near my squad. Zero chance. Especially when there were creative options like Scholes and McManaman around then.

            What you’d get in (possible) fleeting moments of genius, you would lose 10 times over in discipline.

                Fairly sure we would have been found out later on in the tournament/bottled it.

                I don’t think the players liked Glennda.

                I genuinely think we would have won Italia 90 though if we got to the final.

                  Smallman1 Argentina were dire in the final, ravaged by injury and suspension.

                  They did well to hold West Germany to 1-0. I agree England would have beaten them.

                      bosstrabs If I were a football manager, there is absolutely no way I would let Gazza anywhere near my squad. Zero chance. Especially when there were creative options like Scholes and McManaman around then.

                      What you’d get in (possible) fleeting moments of genius, you would lose 10 times over in discipline.

                      Gazza was way past his prime then too.

                      All went downhill for him after he tried to do Gary Charles in the FA Cup final and injuring himself in the process.

                        bosstrabs That’s one of the worst finals ever though - that’s not a measure of England - England lost the Argentina and they certainly would’ve lost the Germans.

                        Argentina were a footballing disgrace in that final.

                        the knuckle-draggers in England must’ve not known where to turn with that final.

                          The only English footballer I was genuinely excited about post Gazza was Rooney circa 2004. In the Euros Rooney dropping his shoulder and actually going past players in central areas got my fat ass off the sofa jumping around like a loon. That side of Rooneys game sort of dissapeared after those finals . Seems like the modern game doesn’t produce players like that anymore in England .