Graham Taylor rages over Carlton Palmer goal

[MatthewPWoods]

"What was he doing in the f****** box?" What was he doing on the f****** pitch, more like. Carlton Palmer? Christ Almighty.

As has been said, he had a ready made defence: Seaman, Winterburn, Dixon, Bould, Adams. All he had to do was drop them in and we'd have won every game (San Marino included) 1-0!

[seankinsellasean]

@MatthewPWoods Even still I dont think England where good enough at that stage to cause much harm to the better nations at the time but i was only 3 at the time so what can i say haha

[JoeRyan33]

@seankinsellasean They were good enough. A lot of talent just misused. The England team today is lacking in talent, anyone from this side would walk into the current one.

[weatherallc05]

why did he opt to play defenders like pallister, parker and walker when he had the whole arsenal back four to choose from

[JoeRyan33]

@weatherallc05 Parker was decent, Pallister was too slow at this level and Walker wasn't good enough after he lost his pace.

Mark Wright and Tony Adams would be the best pairing.

[weatherallc05]

@JoeRyan33 course it would! fucking graham taylor going for stupid options and shite players. he made merson a waste aswell. what a waste of talent

[JoeRyan33]

@weatherallc05 I'm a Gooner, and to be fair to Taylor, Merse was pissing his talent away at this stage. After 90/91 he wasn't anywhere near as consistent with his club performances either.

Wright was never given the fair run to show his stuff, sort of like Fowler. Then they get tarred with the can't do it for England stuff, and it sticks.

I just think the style of football Taylor wanted to play hurt their chances, played right into Norway's style with the long ball.

[MrSheffield8]

"We've got Carlton Palmer, he smokes marijuana, na na na na"

[Haradscott]

Lol.