5. 2014 World Cup
The 2014 World Cup must surely be fresh in the minds of football fans. England, unfortunately for them and their fans, had been drawn in the ‘group of death’ that year with Uruguay, Italy, and Costa Rica. England’s performance that year was one of their worst in recent history.
Granted they had been drawn with two teams who were in FIFA’s top ten but that can be no excuse for their performance. After all, it wasn’t Italy or Uruguay that topped their group but Costa Rica! After losing 2-1 to Italy and then again to Uruguay in their second game, England were out of the tournament before the first week was up.
Needless to say, failing to qualify past the group stage was a major embarrassment for England and everyone called for a shake-up at the higher echelons of English football. That never happened and Roy Hodgson continued to be manager in spite of terrible selection and bad tactics.
