Interesting football fact

[heretoday]

Since 1966 England have only beaten five teams in the knockout stages of the World Cup - Belgium, Cameroon, Denmark, Paraguay and Ecuador.

Not a very impressive record.

[greenlex]

Apparently they have never beaten any "fancied" at any other world cup other than 1966.

[Mixu62]

Heard the other day that England have never beaten a "current" holder at a world cup. They said in 7 attempts, but I can't think of them all.

[weecounty hibby]

And of those games they were very very lucky aginst Belgium and Cameroon.

[Hibbyradge]

Or, to put it another way, apart from a fortunate win over Cameroon, England have never beaten anyone in the top 30 of FIFA world rankings in the knock-out stages.

Current world rankings. (http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranking/lastranking/gender=m/fullranking.html)

[hibsbollah]

Scotland have only ever won 4 world cup games:duck:

[Hibbyradge]

Scotland have only ever won 4 world cup games:duck:

This will be a useful fact to bring out next time you hear a Scottish commentator suggest we could go all the way in the competition. :agree:

[hibs0666]

English supporters view games against Germany as their big derby game.

Germany have won 6 trophies and reached 13 major finals to England's 1.

Since 1966 England have played Germany 20 times with England winning 5 and Germany winning 13.

All in all, it is fair to say that Germany has England tucked away in their back pocket.

[Posh Swanny]

Or, to put it another way, apart from a fortunate win over Cameroon, England have never beaten anyone in the top 30 of FIFA world rankings in the knock-out stages.

Current world rankings. (http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranking/lastranking/gender=m/fullranking.html)

Denmark must have been up there in 2002!?! And I bet Ecuador weren't far away in 2006 either.

[Jack]

If you laid all the English and other crawling commentators end to end they would reach 3 miles up the M1. The queue of volunteers to run them over with a tank would fill the rest of the motorway!

[Purehibee_MYB]

Apparently Scotland were the only team to go unbeaten at the 1974 world cup! :greengrin

[JE89]

English supporters view games against Germany as their big derby game.

Germany have won 6 trophies and reached 13 major finals to England's 1.

Since 1966 England have played Germany 20 times with England winning 5 and Germany winning 13.

All in all, it is fair to say that Germany has England tucked away in their back pocket.

Sounds like our record v the Yams :duck: :greengrin

[Greentinted]

Or, to put it another way, apart from a fortunate win over Cameroon, England have never beaten anyone in the top 30 of FIFA world rankings in the knock-out stages.

Current world rankings. (http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranking/lastranking/gender=m/fullranking.html)


I knew our rating was poor but below Gabon is a true embarrassment. And England - 8th WTF?