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A travesty that these eight England players only got 53 caps between them.

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Charlie George - one

Le Tissier was superb , should've left Southampton but he obviously preferred being a big fish in a small pond.

And now he’s nuttier than David Cotterill and Trump

Tony Currie is a on that list. I’d call him a flair player but not a ‘maverick’. We also had midfielders like Colin Bell in that period who was an all time great and more talented than any of those talented players.

Ribeye

Le Tissier was superb , should've left Southampton but he obviously preferred being a big fish in a small pond.

I remember an interview with him just after he retired.
He was asked if he'd under achieved by not moving to a bigger club. His reply was 'as a kid all he wanted was to play for Southampton and England, and did both'.

I think it was getting the boot from Soccer Saturday and a few women coming in the programme that sent him mental

So barring Le Tissier just a load of players from the 70s. Hardly played in a major competition in that time, not as many substitutions, did England really play that many games to accommodate them?

Rab C Nesbitt

And now he’s nuttier than David Cotterill and Trump

Seems to have been forgiven for all his weird remarks and is back working for Southampton I think. I thought Southampton was a bland and mild club but it appears to be full of absolute divs.

I think it was getting the boot from Soccer Saturday and a few women coming in the programme that sent him mental

I think it’s the lure of filthy lucre. These clowns see where see where the clicks are and the money is and bait away. Doubt they have a genuine conviction between them.

So barring Le Tissier just a load of players from the 70s. Hardly played in a major competition in that time, not as many substitutions, did England really play that many games to accommodate them?

Young Charcy being obtuse and provocative. Didn’t see that coming.

He's not wrong though.

We didn't qualify for a World Cup for 20 years through a qualifying group, but some still look back on it as some sort of golden age.

It wasn't.

I don’t. You have to take into account it was far more competitive to qualify than it is now.

England always have good players. We don’t always get the best, or the best results, out of them. Maybe it’s to do with expectation but I think justt aboutevery other international team that has been as highly ranked as consistently as England have managed to win something.

He's not wrong though.

We didn't qualify for a World Cup for 20 years through a qualifying group, but some still look back on it as some sort of golden age.

It wasn't.

Sorry. I missed the point of the original post. I thought it was about maverick (entertaining) players who did not win many England caps, not whether or not the seventies was a golden age. My fecking bad.

Maybe it would have been more golden if one or two of these mavericks played more often. Fecked if I know. And nor does anyone else.

Charcy

So barring Le Tissier just a load of players from the 70s. Hardly played in a major competition in that time, not as many substitutions, did England really play that many games to accommodate them?

England played plenty of matches in the 1970s (actually not many less than in, say, the 2020s), not least because of the annual Home Internationals. The limitations on subs maybe makes more of a difference. My memory of the players listed is that most of them, while great on their day, were pretty inconsistent and had rather short 'peaks' in their careers. Also, it's not just their international careers to consider - how many of them won, or even came close to winning, the first division championship? (I can only think of Bowles who came close with QPR.)