20 years on from World Cup heartbreak v Brazil, do England fans not remember how bad it was? – The Warm-Up
TUESDAY'S BIG STORIES Give Gareth a chance please Ad/> It's exactly a week since England were thumped at home by Hungary. More notably, it's exactly 20 years since Ronaldinho floated a free-kick towards the England goal, John Motson uttered the immortal words «oh, and Seaman's been beaten» and the biggest lie in football — «it wasn't a fluke, promise» — was born. Brazil won the quarter-final 2-1 and nine days later the Brazilian Trent Alexander-Arnold was lifting the World Cup aloft.


