7 worst international tournaments in England's recent history

Rooney’s infamous boot to Carvalho’s groin

2. Euro 2016

The walk of shame?

This is going to sound very familiar. Euro 2016 could quite possibly have been England’s year to win. They had the youngest squad in the tournament with actively goalscoring forwards! But as always it was not meant to be. After a dogged draw with Russia, England bagged a win when they met Wales. Even though their third group stage match with Slovakia ended in a draw with no goals scored, England just about got through to the round of 16.

This is where it gets ugly for England because they had arguably the easiest draw. They were playing Iceland, debutantes at the Euro this time and still they just couldn’t win. Not even after leading from a Rooney penalty. Bad passes, non-existent goal scoring opportunities and terrible team selection by Hodgson was their undoing and no result has quite been as disgraceful as this. Well, other than the next one.

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