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Terry Venables, a man whom words rarely failed, said that he could not describe how dreadful the England team and the English Football Association felt about the matter. Alan Mullery, a newspaper columnist in those days, said that it would be impossible for England to host Euro ’96 the following year. The prime minister of the time, John Major, called it “a disgrace and a very great embarrassment”.