https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjU_z4ybSOg As much as the England national side can pull at your heart-strings, the idea of watching a World Cup that doesn't feature The Three Lions is unthinkable to a newer generation of supporters. Well, 1994 was far from a cake-walk fans were made to sit at home and endure the likes of South Korea versus Bolivia in a painfully dull and uncreative 0-0 draw, while coming to terms with the fact that this was a tournament England were seemingly not good enough to enter. With exactly half of Englands qualifying games being made up of draws and losses, Graham Taylors side finished the group in third place, behind both Norway and Holland, subsequently ensuring a boring summer. A fascinating factor of this particular qualifying campaign is that a Channel 4 film crew were given access to record Graham Taylor and his team at their most vulnerable. The documentary is entitled The Impossible Job and makes for a very interesting watch. In a recent interview with the BBC, Taylor reflected on the backlash created by the whole episode: "I didn't ever expect that we wouldn't qualify, I was arrogant enough to think that. So I was keen to show the problems of being England manager. Then, as the results went on and we didn't qualify, I became more central to the documentary, quite rightly.
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