Podcast: England’s World Cup Record

Our guest is football writer Gary Thacker, whose book Cheers, Tears and Jeers: A History of England and the World Cup chronicles the Three Lions’ tournament experience.

We discuss:

• Why didn’t England enter the pre-WWII tournaments – the ones they were most likely to win?
• 1966 and all that…
• Why did England fail to qualify twice in the 1970s?
• The genius and madness of Maradona
• Italia ’90
• Missed opportunities in 2002 and 2006

…and much more!

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