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‘I’ll always be grateful to Venables for involving me in the England squad, but I knew I wasn’t quite at the level of Tony Adams and co’ Colin Cooper’s honest admission over his brief Three Lions career

The former Nottingham Forest and Middlesbrough stalwart won two England caps in 1995

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‘It’s still my favourite. I was playing for my country against my own players from Rangers, they’d been giving me grief and I said, ‘Just wait until we get to Wembley…’ Paul Gascoigne on his Euro 96 goal against Scotland

Gazza’s goal against the Auld Enemy proved to be the turning point in England’s Euro 96 campaign

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‘We beat Spain on the Saturday and went to see the Sex Pistols on Sunday. It was brilliant for me, but for Gareth Southgate I’m not so sure!’ Stuart Pearce recalls the time punk rock and Euro 96 collided

The former England left-back is a huge punk fan

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'I won that dentist’s chair challenge in Hong Kong before Euro 96 - that might be my biggest claim to fame’: England international opens up on infamous night out in Asia

England players were left red-faced after alcohol-induced escapades in Hong Kong prior to Euro 96, but one squad member now claims to have won

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The best British players of the 90s

A look at Britain's top footballing talent from the final decade of the 20th century

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‘My career highlight was the Euro 96 semi against England – it was the first time I’d been to Wembley and I thought, ‘What kind of old stadium is this?!’: Germany Euros winner reflects on playing at Home of Football

Germany faced England at the old Wembley in a massive Euro 96 semi-final - and for one member of Die Mannschaft, the occasion is a career highlight

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The best English players of the 90s

Ranking England's finest footballers of the final decade of the 20th century

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Nations which won continental championships

After the World Cup, continental competitions offer the biggest prizes in international football. Here, a look at some of the most notable winners...

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England knocking on heaven’s door at the Euros

Brief letters: Bob Dylan and Euro 96 | Football team’s multicultural success | Sporting poetry | Country diary politics | MPs taken for a ride

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‘He was a genius. Everyone loved him, he made training really difficult but enjoyable, what Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp have been doing, he was doing in 1996’ Alan Shearer on the manager who was decades ahead of his time

Alan Shearer tells FourFourTwo about the coach whose man-management skills and tactical nous had players not wanting to leave the training field

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Gareth Southgate issues rallying cry with reminder of Euro 96 struggles

Gareth Southgate has said the memories of Italia 90 and Euro 96 have become more cherished over the years and overlook the difficulties experienced at the time

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Gareth Southgate says England have found their Paul Gascoigne moment at Euro 2024

The manager suggested that fans often forget how poor England were en route to semi-finals at the 1990 World Cup and Euro 96

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The best German players ever

FFT counts down the finest footballers come out of Germany over the years

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Who is Gareth Southgate? 10 things you didn't know about him

We're assuming you know he's the England manager, but here are ten more facts about the Three Lions gaffer

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‘I didn’t see the ball move, but I remember reading all that Uri Geller nonsense’ Alan Shearer wishes as many people remembered his Euro 96 goal vs Scotland as they did the ‘phenomenon’ behind Gary McAllister’s penalty miss

Gazza’s goal and McAllister’s moving ball overshadowed Alan Shearer’s goal vs Scotland in Euro 96, and he’s not happy about it!

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Players sent off at the Euros

From the first red card in 1968 to more recent dismissals, a look at the players sent off at the Euros...

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Terry Venables' Euro 96 masterclass: How England were ahead of the curve

England's Euro 96 campaign is often talked about with such a glow. So how did the Three Lions shape up?

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The history of the UEFA Euro logo: every European Championship design

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Alan Shearer ‘My opening Euros goal was one of the most important I ever scored’

He doubled his England goal tally in a single tournament, but going into Euro 96 the pressure on Alan Shearer could not have been higher

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‘What the f*** have you stopped for!?’ Alan Shearer on one of the biggest sliding door moments in the history of English football

Former England captain Alan Shearer admits he’s watched the Gazza-Germany Euro 96 chance back a million times

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‘My mum asked why Baddiel and Skinner wore my shirt in their Three Lions video – I didn’t have the heart to tell her why our surname is so funny’: German star on being a part of English football culture

A former Germany star has opened up about being the butt of England jokes during Euro 96

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Alan Shearer breaks silence on the Paul Gascoigne Euro 96 aeroplane ‘slap’ that inadvertently galvanised Terry Venables’ England squad

After 28 years Alan Shearer was asked about a prank that could have been a catalyst for England’s performances at Euro 96

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Best Euros underdogs

From shock winners to surprise semi-finalists and more, a look at the best underdogs in European Championship history...

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The best Bundesliga players of the 90s

Ranking the German top flight's top performers of the decade

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‘I often see fans crying or snogging to it’: Cast on how they made Walkaway

‘It was used as the soundtrack when the England football team were knocked out of Euro 96. The nation wept, Walkaway was the song – and I missed the whole thing’

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