Editing England national football team (section)

===Don Revie, Ron Greenwood and Bobby Robson===
Following Ramsey's dismissal, [[Joe Mercer]] took immediate temporary charge of England for a seven-match spell until [[Don Revie]] was appointed as new permanent manager in 1974.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2012/oct/11/forgotten-story-joe-mercer-england-manager |title=The forgotten story of … England under Joe Mercer |author=Rob Bagchi |work=The Guardian |date=11 October 2012 |access-date=27 June 2021}}</ref> Under Revie, the team underperformed and failed to qualify for either [[UEFA Euro 1976|Euro 1976]] or the [[1978 FIFA World Cup|1978 World Cup]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/articles/2009/06/01/history_don_revie_auction_feature.shtml |title=The Don |publisher=BBC |date=2 June 2009 |access-date=27 June 2021}}</ref> Revie resigned in 1977 and was replaced by [[Ron Greenwood]], under whom performances improved. The team qualified for [[UEFA Euro 1980|Euro 1980]] without losing any of their games, but exited in the group stage of the final tournament.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/that-1980s-sports-blog/2020/oct/09/england-fans-ruined-match-belgium-40-years-ago-euro-80 | title=When England fans ruined their match against Belgium 40 years ago | work=The Guardian | first=Steven | last=Pye | date=9 October 2020 | access-date=16 May 2021 | archive-date=16 May 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516044647/https://www.theguardian.com/football/that-1980s-sports-blog/2020/oct/09/england-fans-ruined-match-belgium-40-years-ago-euro-80 | url-status=live }}</ref> They also qualified for the [[1982 FIFA World Cup|1982 World Cup]] in Spain; despite not losing a game, they were eliminated at the second group stage.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/feb/10/guardianobituaries.football |title=Ron Greenwood |author=Brian Glanville |work=The Guardian |date=10 February 2006 |access-date=27 June 2021 |archive-date=11 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210711190709/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/feb/10/guardianobituaries.football |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-england-world-cup-1982-spain-flying-start-frustrating-finish-1162983.html |title=Football: England at the World Cup: 1982 Spain – A flying start but a frustrating finish |author=Ken Jones |work=The Independent |date=23 October 2011 |access-date=27 June 2021 |archive-date=27 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627154502/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-england-world-cup-1982-spain-flying-start-frustrating-finish-1162983.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Bobby Robson]] managed England from 1982 to 1990.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/england/5949048/Sir-Bobby-Robson-The-England-years-1982-1990.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/england/5949048/Sir-Bobby-Robson-The-England-years-1982-1990.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Sir Bobby Robson: The England years 1982–1990 |author=Jeremy Wilson |work=The Telegraph |date=31 July 2009 |access-date=27 June 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Although the team failed to qualify for [[UEFA Euro 1984|Euro 1984]], they reached the quarter-finals of the [[1986 FIFA World Cup|1986 World Cup]], losing 2–1 to [[Argentina national football team|Argentina]] in a [[Argentina v England (1986 FIFA World Cup)|game]] made famous by two highly contrasting goals scored by [[Diego Maradona]] – the first being blatantly knocked in by his hand, prompting his "[[The hand of God|Hand of God]]" remark, the second being an outstandingly skilful individual goal, involving high speed dribbling past several opponents.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/that-1980s-sports-blog/2014/mar/05/england-denmark-defeat-wembley-euro-1984-bobby-robson |title=How a defeat to Denmark cost Bobby Robson's England a place at Euro 84 |work=The Guardian |date=5 March 2014 |access-date=27 June 2021 |archive-date=27 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627154502/https://www.theguardian.com/football/that-1980s-sports-blog/2014/mar/05/england-denmark-defeat-wembley-euro-1984-bobby-robson |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/11/football/world-cup-argentina-england-1986-diego-maradona/index.html |title=How Diego Maradona redefined football in the space of less than five minutes |author=Marcela Mora y Araujo |publisher=CNN |date=11 June 2018 |access-date=27 June 2021}}</ref> England striker [[Gary Lineker]] finished as the tournament's top scorer with six goals.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/gary-linekers-1986-world-cup-pictures-look-those-nut-huggers-barnso-wearing |title=Gary Lineker's 1986 World Cup in pictures: "Look at those nut-huggers Barnso is wearing..." |publisher=FourFourTwo |date=3 June 2014 |access-date=27 June 2021 |archive-date=27 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627154502/https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/gary-linekers-1986-world-cup-pictures-look-those-nut-huggers-barnso-wearing |url-status=live }}</ref>

England went on to lose every match at [[UEFA Euro 1988|Euro 1988]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/jun/09/englandfootballteam |title=On Second Thoughts: England at Euro 88 |author=Rob Smyth |work=The Guardian |date=9 June 2008 |access-date=27 June 2021 |archive-date=11 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190711201841/https://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/jun/09/englandfootballteam |url-status=live }}</ref> They next achieved their second best result in the [[1990 FIFA World Cup|1990 World Cup]] by finishing fourth&nbsp;– losing again to West Germany after a closely contested semi-final finishing 1–1 after [[extra time]], then 3–4 in England's first [[penalty shoot-out (association football)|penalty shoot-out]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/mar/27/retro-mbm-england-v-west-germany-sort-of-live|title=England v West Germany at Italia '90 – as it happened|date=27 March 2014|work=The Guardian|access-date=11 July 2018|archive-date=2 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402221240/https://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/mar/27/retro-mbm-england-v-west-germany-sort-of-live|url-status=live}}</ref> Despite losing to [[Italy national football team|Italy]] in the third place play-off, the members of the England team were given bronze medals identical to the Italians'. Due to the team's good performance at the tournament against general expectations, and the emotional nature of the narrow defeat to West Germany,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt0xx3So6zw| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/tt0xx3So6zw| archive-date=11 December 2021 | url-status=live|title=Gazza's tears – 1990| date=11 June 2018|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> the team were welcomed home as heroes and thousands of people lined the streets for an open-top bus parade.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/sport/football/article/no-official-celebration-next-week-for-englands-return-hfwnh7n9w|title=No official celebration next week for England's return|author=Martyn Ziegler|work=[[The Times]]|date=12 July 2018|access-date=17 September 2021|archive-date=17 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917203737/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/no-official-celebration-next-week-for-englands-return-hfwnh7n9w|url-status=live}}</ref>