ENGLAND 4- 1 NETHERLANDS

EURO 96 GROUP ST AGE

If ever one match captured a moment in time, England’s last group stage game in their hazy summer of love was it.

Terry Venables rustled up an expressive gameplan to nullify the Netherlands’ pass masters and rival the Oranje for style. England raced into a 4- 0 lead thanks to braces from Teddy

Sheringham and Alan Shearer, then cruised to this unexpected thrashing. Shearer’s super second – the meat inside a three- goal, 11- minute sandwich at the beginning of the second half – was the purest Total Football.

“Once we started playing, they just couldn’t get the ball off us,” a proud Paul Ince later told FFT.