Italy 0-0 England 1997 (WCQ)
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- England secure qualification for the 1998 World Cup with a battling goalless draw in Rome against Italy in October 1997. The Italians will join them in the finals via the play-offs. This match was arguably the high point of Glenn Hoddle's reign in charge of England, with Paul Ince giving a particularly courageous performance.
Ian Wright at the end. The roller coaster of his missed chance nearly turning into Italys goal being scored down the other end. Relief! Then the final whistle. And the realisation he was going to a World Cup with a manager in charge who believed in him. Tears of joy! And then it all got taken away from him through a cruel injury before the tournament. Heartbreaking. This beautiful, bittersweet game we love. God bless Ian Wright. God bless England
Ian Wright crying afterwards, football really did mean everything to that man! What a player!
He missed the WC 1998, because of an injury. What a pity for him!
Criminally underused by England over the years as well. Most notably at Euro 96.
@@pgl0897 And euro 92 was the top scorer that year and still never got picked in the squad for the tournament, playing for England meant the world to Wrighty he deserved better.
He never played in a major tournament. Should have
By far the most entertaining England game I've seen in my days!!!
The game was built up like a championship boxing match
Hoddle got them playing the best football
international football was was so much quality back then, so much drama compared to now it doesn't have that same excitement and quality as before
what you're saying is wrong - there are some great games now
@altovelli08 not even remotely true.
completely disagree
You watching the semi-final tonight? :)
I believe international football's heyday was from 1958-1986 with some good games scattered since (like this one). France '98 was however on of the most *memorable* all-round World Cups.
Brilliant game, Gazza was amazing, kept everything moving fluently, great skill, vision, simple passes, creating chances, link up play, pure class act. Hoddle made the stupid decision not to take him to France 98. Maybe Gazza would have been a little more stable in his mind if he was allowed to bow out of the world stage as his football talent deserved.
Greatest 0-0 in football history in my opinion.
Para mi tambien lo seria si no existiera el francia vs italia en cuartos de final de francia 98
Man Utd vs Arsenal 2003?
Italy - Holland in Euro 2000 semis 👍
I'm a long term 3 lions fan from Italy and i can tell you that Italy was very lucky that night vs holland
I remember Ian Wright giving the best display of centre forward running and closing down I ever saw. He ran his bollocks off that night and was unlucky not to get the winner. Hoddle got England playing well but his decision not to take Gazza to France 98 was perhaps a mistake. We'll never know!
Probably last great game of The Great Paul Gascoigne. He was ruling the pitch.
So sad that nobody got to see him play in the WC 1998.
.....and on his old turf too.....
Whenever you watch this you realise how bizarre it was that Gazza ended up being left out of the World Cup squad - even half fit he could do things no other England player could
I was looking this for long long time since i watched 'LIVE' Game to remember especially to remember Paul Ince... I really appreciated for uploading
Probably the best football i ever seen England play, just a pity they went backwards after that.
Why though?
@@markbailey1970 For starters, Hoddle dropped Gascoigne for the World Cup finals, he couldn't both juggle man-management along with his philosophy of technical astute, Beckham got send off against Argentina, Gazza had gone for good, the ever demanding English press hounded Hoddle against the new found Spice Boys, Hoddle simple couldn't keep his personal views to himself, enter King Kev, the rise and rise of the Premier League/ship, the rest is history.
@@SuperTed19021 He was right to leave our Gaaza, sadly he was gone...that England team was good at 98 and Hoddle was probably the best manager we had...as you said, shame about the weird stuff and the way the press ran with it. What could have been, was a great generation of players with the right manager. It's why I have respect for Southgate, the players he has now don't compare to the likes of Scholes, Gerrard, Shearer, Campbell, Rio, Terry yet somehow they've achieved much more
I remember as a kid reading in the paper about the missed chances from both teams during the last thirty seconds .About Ian Wright (whom I only knew as the Premiership's top scorer back) first hitting the post , followed by Italy nearly scoring. I knew about the tensions heading into the game after seeing TV news reports days before the game of visiting England fans being physically and verbally abused by Italians. So I had to come here see the game highlights and aforementioned misses.I was finally able to do so thanks to RUclips and the uploader of the video.
What a fucking player Gazza was. He was still, at this stage, England's best player. An absolute travesty Hoddle never took him to France.
What an amazing, heart-stopping last minute in this match. Wright hits the post then straight up the other end and Vieri misses by inches with a header.
I was there for this. Bloody brilliant atmosphere. Cant believe this was Gazzas last competitive match in a 3 lions shirt, was a travesty that he wasnt selected to go to France.
Englands finest hour.
To travel to Rome to play that Italian squad, and come away with a 0-0 was brilliant.
I remember watching this match at 5am at Melbourne's Crown Casino.
To this day I believe if Gazza was selected to goto France 98, England would've won the World Cup. We had the best side at France 98.
Shame English football is a shell of it's former self.
Matthew Caligari im feeling your pain now mate - emigrated to Sydney so the 5am starts are a real test. Especially doing a full days work after..
Yep - Gazza there would have been awesome. Fucking David Batty..
Imagine Gazza, Scholes, Beckham with Owen and Shearer up front. World beaters right there.
I love David Batty but you can't compare him to Gazza they were completely different players.
But as mentioned above I believe if Gazza had gone we'd have won the WC. Ian Wright was also a miss at that tournament.
@@r4h4al ill frame this for future chuckles. Gazza was passed it and would have been too pissed to take Accrington Stanley to a final, let alone England. He had 2 chances in 90 and 96 to take them to a final and he blew both. You dont get 3 chances.
@@meisterlymanu5214 France 98 could have been strike 3 and then out!
Once again a beautiful royal powerful and proud european nation qualified for the World Cup by playing 0-0 away against Italy =)
Whilst I agree Hoddle should never have been hounded out, your assessment of the team at that time is somewhat clouded by emotional nostalgia. England were criticised quite heavily (as is usually the case) in the '98 campaign. The questions back then are exactly the same that remain right now.
Hoddle really *did* need to trust his most creative/talented players (e.g. picking Gazza for France) and work on his man-management skills. And then who could have known with his group of players..... Alas.
Just there’s always someone was scapegoated-1998 was Beckham
Only for one match
Multiple world class players on show and Paul Gascoigne a level above them all. Hoddle will always be remembered for letting ego get the better of him and not selecting him.
I was as that game. What an amazing night. I'll never forget it.
Quite a bit of trouble in bars in Rome.
But it was a great 3 days I had with my mate Kev.
Still the only time I've been to Rome - happy days!
Probably the best England team I ever saw in my life. Watching this makes me sad about the team we possess now.
Tell you what, you can see southgate is a product of this era, everyone moans about england now but the last two friendlies we've just played had flashes of this, quick passing and moving and some exciting young players, all is not lost
badoman1 even better now
One of the best England performances I've had the pleasure to watch. If they are as good as this team the game is in rhe bag!!
We were brilliant that night. Gazza was like a geordie Beckenbauer.
oh dear i forget how england have played in 1998 and gascoigne still doing his cruyff turn in his later years and im turkish from germany saying this that england has not the spirit like back in the days of 96-98
This English side truth be told, could've very well gone on to win the 1998 World Cup. Had they of gone past Argentina, if Beckham hadn't of been sent off, England would've won.
This side was pure class.
Shame the current squad is a shell of its former self
Also if Ian Wright had been fit. He was crucial for England.
We'd have run into Holland in the quarter finals. They were a particular thorn in the side then.
"if my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bicycle"
I disagree. Look at that team's spine; Cambell in defence, Ince, Batty and Scholes in midfield and Shearer up front with an emerging Owen. I think the importance of Scholes was underestimated. You only have to read about how Xavi and Iniesta used to watch videos of Scholes to improve their techniques, to understand the quality of the player. Harry Redknapp recently said that England's best chance of world cup victory was in '98. Don't forget they won 'Le Tornoui' in '97.
Decent team but no outstanding world class player...maybe Gazza. Scholes was good but world class players win something with their country. Scholes, Beckham, Sol, Sherignham et al did not look like at any time coming close to winning anything. Interesting match....high drama those last few minutes.
Possibly the last England national squad to have some substance in them. It was also a pity they had to play the Argies in the round of 16 in what was a rather unpredictable match. That was also the best game to watch in the whole wc and should have been the final.
First football game I ever watched on TV. Been etched in my brain ever since.
As an English national I must say there is something extra special about the atmosphere within Italian Stadia on big footballing occasions. Other countries have amazing grounds and nights but there is just something a little bit magical about Italy for some reason.
Quality football. We've spent the last 15 years going nowhere.
I haven't "forgotten" anything about that England team. Which is why I'm telling you the side were regularly criticised for being poor. You forget the poor games they had in the WC,& the pasting they got from Italy at Wembley in the earlier fixture. Vs the smaller sides England are decent - but generally against the better ones, they fail. It was no different then. You conveniently forget that because of the emotional nostalgia of it all. It will be the same in 10 years looking back at Euro 12
Fantastic player Paul Ince , great captain .
Oh and Hoddle has the second best record as England manager.
Not anymore
This was good football. The ball was on the ground at all times.
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Gazza was immense in this game and yet didnt make the squal for the finals... ended up being his last ever game for England. Very sad
I know.
i remember the night Hoddle announced his Gazza less 98 squad. My immediate reaction was he had made the right decision, because he was passed it, and we had Scholes, Beckham, Ince, Anderton, Mcmanaman. He was also a bad booze influence on the squad. He also had had 2 chances in semi finals to take England over the line, and he blew both. Laced with genius, but he was never sober or focused enough to be world class.
Fantastic match, an England performance to be proud of and so entertaining.
Still amazes me that the team of players that night never get close to winning anything. Alas, of course, things returned to normal soon after. Must have been the only performances in a long time that England played good football.
England had won a trophy that same year you fool.
A tournament Italy came last in!
@@cddb5408 Yes, the Tournoi de France trophy in June that year. But alas, things like that count for little. If anything, with all that talent we had and one of the *most* techincally astute managers we had for donkey's years, I felt we *still* extremely underachieved in the Hoddle era. The man really needed to juggle both man-management and press relations, then he *could* have been the best since Ramsey.
@@cddb5408 Also, I wonder how many people back home at the time would have *really* cared about England winning what is considered a friendly trophy? Great in all, but it still counted for little in the end. If anything, this 0-0 draw in Rome against the same team felt more like a tournament win just to get to the WC finals.
Imagine Hoddle had stayed for another decade .. instead of Keegan and McClaren..
Good point. Who knows...however I questioned his decision for not selecting Andy Cole and Leaving Gazza out of the 1998 WC.
Gazza's final compettitive fixture - he played so well....
I always forget Beckham was at RWB for this game - must be pretty much the only time he played there! Anderton always got magically fit for tournaments
Good players under a manager who knew how to get us playing well at international level. We retained and passed the ball so well under Hoddle. Sadly the evil press wanted him out and were successful in their endeavours. Now look at us, we are embarrassingly poor.
Why do the press always ruin the England managers? Can't we just get rid of the press?
Please elaborate on 'regularly criticised' and by whom? Because I don't recall this. Also name the poor games they had in the WC? Oh and I didn't know a 1-0 defeat constituted a pasting. Besides that defeat was very early in Hoddle's reign. And I can assure there is no emotional nostalgia, why should there be? I clearly remember that particular England team playing a brand of football - patient possession football - I'd not seen them play before and it will always stick out in my mind.
I remember this match!great!do you know where I can get the navy blue short of this period?XL SIZE.
I remember doing the conga around the pool table at my University Halls of Residence after this. Great days.
Bring back Glenn
I remember watching this game for every move of Del Piero and and David Beckham.
One of the most entertaining 0-0s
Look at Ian Wright at the end that is what playing for England meant to him.
Danny Raymond exactly cole and collymore great players none played in france 98 paul ince was a great player too, english blacks are great playerseddie pope roy lassiter coby jones tony sanneh is another story what am I supposed to say here fist box them you could play me at least
And he didnt get selected either did he?! Loved it back then when it really mattered to every player wearing the 3lions shirt
I know we need to see that from the current players.
This is really the last brilliant England performance
Not the 5-1 in Munich?
+CaptainOkay Or the last 8 in 2006 world cup?
we were shit in the 2006 finals. Every game we were terrible and didnt deserve to go further than we did. Teams for Italia 90, Euro 96 and France 98 were our best chances.
CaptainOkay the performance against Portugal in 06 was the best since this
I remember see that game live, was amazing. I was a child.. man! you didn't include the parte when English fans were beaten by italian police
no body cared
rightly so, english hooligans at their worst
@@lusardi01 yeah the Italian police really are angels aren't they? Fucking clown
@@lusardi01 idiot. You weren't there so don't be a c@@@
Those were the days when England were actually feared. Italy post 1994 era it must be said were not that great a team even though they had brilliant players.
this england team deserved to go very far at france 98...seaman, adams, ince,beckham,shearer,owen,phew...just unlucky to lose to romania at group stage...and ended up meet red hot argentina in 2nd round...the rest is history...also this is the best england kit ever along with euro 96 home kit...
This English kit & Euro 96 were my favorite's. I've still got this English kit in my wardrobe.
Why were we unlucky to lose against Romania? Maybe we just weren't good enough?
@@r4h4al Owen shot hit the post in dying minute in the Romania match...if England top the group, who knows what might happen ?
a great match from England gave them a direct pass to World Cup 1998 and in the finals the Danish referee Kim Milton wasn't fair enough with England in its match vs Argentina in the playoff stage
He was fair. We can't blame the referee as an excuse.
i´m portuguese and the guy who narrated the game show´s no emotion after the last whisle. I don´t know if that´s normal for you guys, but in here it´s a party.
Luis Ferreira I disagree. The commentator showed the correct amount of enthusiasm without going over the top.
They are neutral in england.
As the three lions song goes you see “Incey ready for war!”🏴💪🏻
"When have England never been slated?" So you are implying they were slated unfairly? I recall Sol Campbell getting some stick in that 1-0 defeat (he was at fault for their goal) but that was it. I do have the facts to support my case, though. Hoddle has the second best record as England manager behind Alf Ramsey and under him we won a tournament featuring France, Brazil and Italy. We can't all be nostalgic! I personally think you have an irrational dislike of Hoddle and that team.
5:25 The most difficult moment for Italy.
Didn't we have a goal disallowed they should have stood?
Gazza's last match for England.
Zola's too. I bet they both had "what if" thoughts for a long time after. But Gazza would have been the biggest treat from an English point of view, and perhaps the more influential given that Italy had a lot of good in form forwards.
Wasn't Gazza's last cap. He played 4 more times after this.
It was his last game.
No it wasn't. Last competitive cap yes.
Hoddle was a vindictive bastard not taking Gazza to the World Cup. When Franz Beckenbauer was asked his opinion he said that “Gascoigne is still one of the worlds best players”. Gazza would have risen to the occasion and played a blinder at that World Cup.
100% disagree. He was passed it and a major piss head bad influence in the dressing room.
Insane performance
Good refereeing at 4.05. You rarely see that sort of vision with whistleblowers given their almost blind tendency to be sucked in by the acting talents of people like Suarez and Ronaldo and half a dozen Argo's and Germans per match.
Adams catches him. Granted Del Piero senses the possibility of a connection and lets his right foot linger a bit, but he is brought down. Technically it could have been a penalty, I think.
England performed well and probably deserved to win.
We need a manager like Glen again. Someone with a fresh modern outlook on the game who shows some passion. Not like the tired old stager currently occupying the post. ANd as far as I am concerned, I dont care if they shag Margaret Thatchers corpse off field - its what they do as manager that counts.
Glenn Hoddle certainly got us playing some nice football and was a modern thinker, that performance in Rome proved it but he was blessed with a great depth of talent from that period, especially inheriting the Euro 96 squad; compared to what Roy Hodgson has now. Don't know if Glenn would do much else with the current squad. At least Hodgson has gave young players a chance and tried to do more attacking football compared to such other kick-and-rush merchants. Hoddle was decent that's for sure but he did have a high calibre of talent to work with.
Hodgson is Englands worst ever manager. the fact that he got to manage for 3 tournaments - every single one a total embarassment, while the likes of clough & redknapp never got the job says a lot about the F.A.
SuperTed19021 agreed but this more technical style disappeared under Keegan and it was more or less the same group of players.
Elaborate? The press, the fans - you know the usual? When have England never been slated? It's par for the course, always has been. 1-0 isn't a pasting but the performance took one certainly. Patient possession football from England? Dude, you are miles off reality. Miles off. All the other comments are like i say, emotional nostalgia. As I say In 10 years they'll be back saying great things about Euro 12. Sorry mate, you aint ever going to convince me and nor me you. Stalemate!
seaman,adams,campbell,beckham,scholes,shearer,sheringham...phew...this is the real england team...even talents like fowler, mcmanaman and le tissier can't get to the team...this team can easily beat current england team...
Italy nil England nil and we're there in France 1998 I really feel that line in 3 lions 98
We need an Italian manager with Marino
And read all the other comments, the vast majority are in agreement with me that this was a very good England team. Next you will be telling me how we improved under Keegan ha ha ha
Kudos to the ref for booking an Italian player for diving in their own backyard!
Granted their have been times England have been treated favourably by the press. But it's pretty rare. How you can't acknowledge that is baffling in the extreme. The whole team were slated after that 1-0 defeat. Hoddle may have the "2nd best record" and personally I don't think he should have gone but it's not about Hoddle. It's about England. Winning a meaningless tournament means about as much as the pre-season Emirates Cup - absolutely fuck all. No one cared (apart from England).
Del Piero no banco nessa época era algo inadimissível
Hear hear. Try telling this to Zander469 who, for some bizarre reason, thinks that England team wasn't very good.
When football was great.
I dont think this was Glen Hoddles high point as the Tournoi showed how Glen had really influenced England to a level that could compete with the best. And they pretty much would have gone a lot further in WC 98 until some snot got himself sent off against Argentina.
Back when the days where the players where praised as heroes for qualifying for a World Cup! 👏
Now they are under-achievers and disgraced for getting to semi finals at World Cup and 2 European finals ! 🤔
Wow! England really outplayed Italy in Rome. Just wonder why they couldn't do the same last Sunday in Wembley.
Because this match was 24 years ago lol
Remember the refs name from this game, he was fantastic! Took no crap. Mario van der ende
Cesare Maldini altro fenomeno uns partita da vimcere ad ogni costo gioca senza Baggio e Zola ma con Di livio . Zero tiri in porta. Oltre che 0a0 conPolonia eGeorgia
Whatta match this was
Definitely shoulda put michael on 🤷♂️
great game despite 0-0
A *once* in a near lifetime where drawing 0-0 in an international competitive qualifier felt like victory for one and defeat for the other. Doesn't happen often.
@@SuperTed19021 that is the explanation of England-Italy football rivalry.
Italians like Soccer!
How on Earth did Wright miss that?!!!
because he was an impulsive fuckwit
Hoddle knee his football, playing Italian at their own game with play acting and passing
If this result happened under Southgate England fans would be fuming 😂😂
I have to move it is cooking here
come on England!!!
Can't believe this team didnt win anything! travesty.
del piero
Had ate with sky so I watched this....gazzza shoulda been in france
And one last thing:-) We only got knocked out of World Cup '98 because of Beckham's stupidity. We were the better team against the Argies up until that point and even against 10 men they couldn't beat us in open play.
6:44
Paul Gascoignes greatest game ....never hid all ways wanted the ball .shame vennables wasn't manager he would have sorted out Gascoigne before the world cup .huddle good coach .shite man manger .
The 🇬🇧 ,Party aß if you were World Champion . 😂
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