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A pair of England football lists

For kicks, here's an extravaganza of England football chat. First of all, from best to worst, here are all England's men's major championship campaigns since i remember, in 1986. Qualification is taken into account, especially, obviously, when qualification didn't happen! (but occasionally when it did ...) It's more interesting near the bottom, probably: 1990 - It's tricky at the top, but i guess this was the best, just about. England didn't lose til the 3rd place play-off, they really were so close, it was pretty great 1996 - I mean, I'm surprised I've put this above 2018, because it was only the Euros, but the two losses to Belgium are really problematic in 2018, and the Netherlands win was just the best win of all of them. 2018 - Maybe it will come top in a while, but it has to be a little bothersome that England lost three games, and that Panama and Tunisia were quite average. But Sweden and Colombia were lush. And you know, people