DO I NOT LIKE THAT!

I was looking back to June 1992 because I am meeting a bunch of old pupils from the school who left that summer. They are 25 years older-43 years old or thereabouts. Towards the end of term, various celebrations took place and in our "staff room" we had a dinner for two colleagues who were retiring, having spent over 30 years each at the school, teaching Music and English. One of them taught my daughter violin and was big in theatre, the other had appeared in House of Horror Films and coached tennis.

The dinner went well and afterwards I retired to watch a recording of the European Championship qualifier between England and Sweden (the hosts). This was a Group 2 match in Stockholm and Graham Taylor's England had previously drawn 0-0 with Denmark and France. This, with Gary Lineker leading the line.
Lineker had just scored the fastest first goal for England (42 seconds) against Malaysia in a friendly and he went on to score all the goals in a 4-2 victory. To get to the "finals" England had beaten Turkey 1-0 and drawn with Poland, but Lineker was clearly "on form".

Needless to say with only 2 points from two matches in the group England needed a win against the Swedes but it was desperate and we lost 1-2. (Platt scored our only goal)  We came bottom of the group and it cost Lineker his place in the national side, before he could equal and possibly beat Bobby Charlton's existing goal scoring record (48).

The team was: Woods, Keown, Pearce, Batty, Palmer, Walker, Daley, Webb, Platt, Lineker, Sinton. Smith and Merson were used subs. Can you name their clubs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb2v3vWRRcA

Denmark won the final having got their place in the tournament finals only because Turkey withdrew due to political issues at home. Eight nations qualified for the finals, the rest were, Scotland, Netherlands, Germany and the Soviet Union.

Taylor's international career continued until the next tournament qualifiers (1994 World Cup) and ironically it was the 7-1 victory against lowly group rivals, San Marino, that saw his last rites, as the team failed to qualify on goal difference! An error by Stuart Pearce allowed the minnows to score within minutes of the game starting. England regained their composure and won at a canter but it proved to be not enough. Another controversial game against the Dutch which we lost 0-2 could have been much different had the referee not made two shocking errors; Koeman should have been sent off for a professional foul and there were identical free kick incidents for which he penalised us but let the Dutch off scot free.......BOOOO!

Taylor never really recovered from the "turnip" insult after the Sweden defeat and this was the last straw.