GARY TEDDER reflects on the time when the Three Lions consistently missed out on the big events

The start of the pain: England’s capitulation against West Germany in Mexico in 1970

IT STARTED at the end. The end, in the sweltering heat of an unforgiving Mexican afternoon in June 1970, as England surrendered the title of World Champions won four years previously at Wembley, marked the beginning of an absence from the global spotlight of the World Cup Finals which would encompass not only the entire decade ahead but also the first two years of the 80s.
The exhausted, dehydrated ...