Today's blog recognises the anniversary of an historic England v Scotland match played at Wembley, on June 15th 1996, a Group match as part of the Euro'96 Tournament.
The two teams met for the first time for seven years, a fixture partly "avoided" due to over excessive rivalry between the two "warring " nations-the crowd that is.
You may remember the Scots invading Wembley, in 1967, after their boys beat England 2-3, England of course were World Cup holders. The Scots claimed they were the best in the World!
76,864 watched Alan Shearer put England ahead, David Seaman saved a Gary McAllister penalty and then Gascoigne conjured up the wonderful humiliation of Colin Hendry and his defence resulting in the dreaded "Dentist's Chair" incident, a goal celebration clearly practised in the past, sometimes on a football pitch! See below.
In their Group, England and Switzerland drew 1-1 on June 8th, Shearer scoring the first of his 7 tournament goals, earning him the Golden Boot..
On the 15th June, Scotland were beaten by Shearer and Gascoigne's goals and then in the next game, with some swagger, Shearer scored a brace, including a penalty, beating the Netherlands 4-1, with Teddy Sheringham adding 2 also.
In the next tie, the Quarter-finals, England beat Spain on penalties 4-2 following a drab 0-0 draw and in the semi-final it was the Germans who beat us (or maybe we beat ourselves) 5-6 on penalties after a 1-1 draw. Shearer scored after 3 minutes.
Germany then beat the Czechs in the Wembley Final 2-1 with a Golden Goal in the 95th minute.
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