CAMEROON V ENGLAND - WORLD CUP ITALIA 1990 - HALF TIME - TV STUDIO - HALF TIME -REVIEW-1ST JULY 1990

England are playing Cameroon in the quarter finals of World Cup Italia 1990 and it is half time. Cameroon have outplayed England in the first half missing a host of chances yet England lead 1-0. Back in the live minute by minute TV studio pundits Bob Wilson, Terry Venables and Jimmy Hill discuss the first half with clips from the first half and they are definitely not happy. This match was played on the 1st July 1990 and Terry Venables went on to manage England from 1994 to 1996. Bob Wilson played 234 times for Arsenal FC and had a very successful broadcasting career and Jimmy Hill played for Brentford and Fulham, was also both the manager and director of Coventry City and had a long and successful broadcasting career with the BBC, ITV and Sky Sports.

[@neil993]

I never thought at the time I'd say this, but damn, Jimmy Hill was good. And him and Tel? Just real punditry, I thoroughly enjoyed this.

[@seltaeb3302]

Jimmy knew his onions. Player Manager Players Union Rep & on the club board of Coventry, oh a Linesman too! Then on the two top football shows Big Match & MotD & then invited as a pundit. Miss that chin chinny chin!

[@seltaeb3302]

Bob Wilson was good too, a natural tv presenter. On the 71 Cup Final he introduced a segment on his Arsenal teammates & when he retired the BBC signed him up.

[@DannyBoy777777]

The match was so open, England had plenty of chances as well.

[@Nickherts]

Fantastic. It is often forgotten what an excellent and versatile broadcaster Bob Wilson was. Presume Des was with Barry in the stadium. Talk about spoilt for choice.

[@Kurgan618]

McMahon said in 2017 that he doesn't understand why today we have 'defensive midfielders' who only sit and don't also act as the third runner into the box. How ironic that Venables wanted him as the holding midfielder and Hill didn't think he could do what Platt did for the goal. Hill was often right but here he's completely wrong. Even with McMahon in a defensive midfield role at the expensive of Barnes etc he wouldn't have prevented Cameroon from passing through us. England simply didn't have the players to cope with Cameroon and sitting back was not natural or possible for that England team. As managers like Robson, SAF, Klopp understood, sometimes you've got to trust that you can score more and make the opposition make mistakes. We made plenty but not as many as Cameroon!

[@DfNetwork]

Personally, I've always thought that Hill was a total plunker - despite him being famously known for having done a lot of things in the football industry. I also noticed that he always disagreed with other pundits he came across.

[@kailashpatel1706]

agree..Cameroon in case alot of people forget were actually missing four first choice players and this screwed their defence up..The issue of not using McMahon is interesting..I strongly believe the 1990 England team was designed for a 4-2-3-1 system Venables would have had Platt being more advanced and McMahon (replacing Robson) in a more sitting defensive role..would it have stopped Cameroon? maybe (Parker was being pulled all over the place)..England were working all out to keep up with them..Oman Biyik decision to shoot straight at Shilton instead of round him at 2;1 was a mistake that cost them along with their generally poor finishing..

[@kailashpatel1706]

Also I love this match..its one of my all time favourite WC matches..

[@TheOdessaSteps]

Must be the only time an English commentator said 'naivety' and wasn't referring to the African team.

[@jorgeponce5512]

Funny and accurate observation.

[@anthonymcken6050]

​@@jorgeponce5512 Yeah 'tactically naive' was the term used for African teams just a coded way of saying "primitive" or "stupid".

[@seltaeb3302]

Shilton, 20 years as a England player & goalkeeper must be a record, it is: just under 1400 matches played & 125 caps without Clemence you could add on another 40+ easily. Ray was good but Shilts better I'd say. Ray always had top defenders in front of him, Shilton's defenders were more erratic & he never played for any big clubs, they were always unfashionable Leicester Stoke Derby N. Forest Southampton.. surely big clubs tried to sign him, must have but for some reason he didn't go or respond. Mystery of Mysteries..🤔

[@Quietstormusic]

Nottingham Forest won the European Cup in 79 and 81 with Shilton so his loyalty was with Clough who should have been the England manager after Greenwood left.

[@carlesq.]

​@@Quietstormusic 80 not 81 👍

[@paulcartwright5836]

Now...do I agree with Jimmy or Terry? There's only one way to find out...

[@lukechapman6549]

England having gone 1-0 up, should have sit back. 😂😂😂😂

[@DannyBoy777777]

Why the laughing ? They carried on on doing it in the second half and were 2-1 down within 20 minutes.